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Broadcasting in the Modernist Era
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The era of literary modernism coincided with a dramatic expansion of broadcast media throughout Europe, which challenged avant-garde writers with new modes of writing and provided them with a global audience for their work. Historicizing these developments and drawing on new sources for research – including the BBC archives and other important collections - Broadcasting in the Modernist Era explores the ways in which canonical writers engaged with the new media of radio and television. Considering the interlinked areas of broadcasting 'culture' and politics' in this period, the book engages the radio writing and broadcasts of such writers as Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, George Orwell, E. M. Forster, J. B. Priestley, Dorothy L. Sayers, David Jones and Jean-Paul Sartre. With chapters by leading international scholars, the volume's empirical-based approach aims to open up new avenues for understandings of radiogenic writing in the mass-media age.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Matthew Feldman, Erik Tonning, & Henry Mead.
PART ONE: BROADCASTING CULTURE IN THE MODERNIST ERA
'Pub, Parlour, Theatre: Radio in the Imagination of W. B. Yeats'.
Charles Armstrong.
'Early Television and Joyce's Finnegans Wake: New Technology and Flawed Power'.
Finn Fordham.
'“I often wish you could answer me back: and so perhaps do you!” E. M. Forster and BBC Radio Broadcasting'.
Peter Fifield.
'Dorothy L. Sayer's: The Man Born To Be King. The “Impersonation” of Divinity: Language, Authenticity and Embodiment'.
Alex Goody.
'T.S. Eliot on the Radio: “The Drama is All In the Word”'.
Steven Matthews.
'David Jones: Christian Modernism at the BBC'.
Erik Tonning.
PART TWO: BROADCASTING POLITICS IN THE MODERNIST ERA
'Rambling Round Words: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Broadcasting'.
Randi Koppen.
'J.B. Priestley: By Radio to a New Britain'.
David Addyman.
'“A mild flavour of defiance”: George Orwell at the BBC'
Henry Mead.
'Radio Broadcasting in Fascist Italy: between censorship, total control, Jazz and Futurism'.
Massimo Ragnedda.
'Pound and Radio Treason: An empirical reassessment'.
Matthew Feldman.
'“Conquering the virtual public”: Jean-Paul Sartre's La Tribune des Temps Modernes and the Radio in France'.
Alys Moody.
Afterword
Daniela Caselli
Product details

Published | 22 May 2014 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 296 |
ISBN | 9781472505309 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Series | Historicizing Modernism |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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[An] excellent and wide-ranging collection... Broadcasting in the Modernist Era is essential reading.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The volume's strands of enquiry will be appreciated and enriched by scholars of inter-medial cultural history for years to come
Keith Williams, University of Dundee, UK, Review of English Studies
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This edited collection addresses an issue that has been relatively neglected: how radio participated in the development of modernism during the early 20th century. ... [The book] make[s] for an important advance in the historiography of broadcasting
European Journal of Communication
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This collection provides a look back at an important aspect of modernism: the implications of broadcast media, a subject also of interest in the contemporary digital age...Not surprisingly, the concerns of many of the modernists discussed-Eliot, Joyce, Yeats, Forster, Woolf, Orwell, et al.-parallel concerns that have arisen since the introduction of the World Wide Web. The variety of modernist responses, both reservations and enthusiasms, and their contemporary resonances make it clear that careful examinations, such as the ones gathered here, provide lessons by showing how previous generations and intellectual movements dealt with "new media" of their times…Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
A. J. Barlow, New York City College of Technology (CUNY), CHOICE

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