Ezra Pound in the Present

Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? Or did he inaugurate a form of comparative literature that could save the discipline from its untimely demise? Would he have welcomed the 2008 financial crisis? What might he say about America''s economic dependence on China? Would he have been appalled at the rise of the “digital humanities,” or found it amenable to his own quasi-social sci...