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Broadcasting in the Modernist Era by Matthew Feldman, ISBN-13: 978-1472512482
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- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (July 17, 2014)
- Language: English
- 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 1472512480
- ISBN-13: 978-1472512482
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: Broadcasting in the Modernist Era
Matthew Feldman, Erik Tonning and Henry Mead
Part One: Broadcasting Culture in the Modernist Era
1 Pub, Parlour, Theatre: Radio in the Imagination of W. B. Yeats
Charles I. Armstrong
2 Early Television and Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: New Technology and Flawed Power
Finn Fordham
3 ‘I Often Wish You Could Answer Me Back: And So Perhaps Do You!’ E. M. Forster and BBC Radio Broadcasting
Peter Fifield
4 Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Man Born to Be King: The ‘Impersonation’ of Divinity: Language, Authenticity and Embodiment
Alex Goody
5 T. S. Eliot on the Radio: ‘The Drama Is All in the Word’
Steven Matthews
6 David Jones: Christian Modernism at the BBC
Erik Tonning
Part Two: Broadcasting Politics in the Modernist Era
7 Rambling Round Words: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Broadcasting
Randi Koppen
8 J. B. Priestley: By Radio to a New Britain
David Addyman
9 Keeping Our Little Corner Clean: George Orwell’s Cultural Broadcasts at the BBC
Henry Mead
10 Radio Broadcasting in Fascist Italy: Between Censorship, Total Control, Jazz and Futurism
Massimo Ragnedda
11 Pound and Radio Treason: An Empirical Reassessment
Matthew Feldman
12 ‘Conquering the Virtual Public’: Jean-Paul Sartre’s La tribune des temps modernes and the Radio in France
Alys Moody
Afterword: The Gentle Art of Radio Broadcasting
Daniela Caselli
Index
Matthew Feldman is Professorial Teaching Fellow, Norwegian Study Centre, University of York, UK.
Henry Mead is a Research Associate at Teeside University, UK, and Bergen University, Norway. He is the co-editor (with Matthew Feldman and Erik Tonning) of Broadcasting in the Modernist Era (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Erik Tonning is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both published by Bloomsbury. He is the author of Samuel Beckett’s Abstract Drama and Modernism and Christianity, as well as the editor of a number of volumes on modernism.
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