Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II

Author:   Dr Melissa Dinsman (Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, USA, University of Notre Dame, USA) ,  Erik Tonning (University of Bergen Norway) ,  Matthew Feldman (Teesside University UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350028456


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   23 March 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Dr Melissa Dinsman (Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, USA, University of Notre Dame, USA) ,  Erik Tonning (University of Bergen Norway) ,  Matthew Feldman (Teesside University UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9781350028456


ISBN 10:   1350028452
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   23 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Introduction: The Voices of War 2. War on the Air: Adorno's and Welles's Radio Writings 3. Militarizing the Messiah: Sayers's and Eliot's Christian Rebranding of Wartime Britain 4. MacNeice's Transatlantic Call : Modernist Complexity in a Mass Aural Medium 5. Orwell and his BBC Voice : Propaganda, Literature, and New Networks 6. Clogged Communication: The Broadcasting and Epistolary Networks of MacLeish and Pound 7. Haunted Network: Mann's Los Angeles Broadcasts to Germany 8. Coda Bibliography Index

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[An] account of the various ways in which many of Modernism's greatest names interacted with the radio ... The most compelling sections delineate the fruitful interactions of unlikely collaborators. * Times Literary Supplement * [This book] is thought-provoking and informative. It adds to a dynamic and engaging field with readings of a variety of authors both well known and less studied. * Review of English Studies * An informative overview of radio in relation to key modernist figures and to modernist aesthetics more generally. It conveys both contemporary reservations regarding radio as a form of mass communication and some of the ways in which it helped to inspire modernist innovation. * The Year's Work in English Studies *


[An] account of the various ways in which many of Modernism's greatest names interacted with the radio ... The most compelling sections delineate the fruitful interactions of unlikely collaborators. Times Literary Supplement [This book] is thought-provoking and informative. It adds to a dynamic and engaging field with readings of a variety of authors both well known and less studied. Review of English Studies An informative overview of radio in relation to key modernist figures and to modernist aesthetics more generally. It conveys both contemporary reservations regarding radio as a form of mass communication and some of the ways in which it helped to inspire modernist innovation. The Year's Work in English Studies


[An] account of the various ways in which many of Modernism's greatest names interacted with the radio ... The most compelling sections delineate the fruitful interactions of unlikely collaborators. Times Literary Supplement [This book] is thought-provoking and informative. It adds to a dynamic and engaging field with readings of a variety of authors both well known and less studied. Review of English Studies


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Melissa Dinsman is a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Visual Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA.

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