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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History études diverses |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Debra Rae Cohen; Michael Coyle; Jane Lewty |
ISBN: | 9780813033495 0813033497 9780813044866 0813044863 |
OCLC Number: | 259265349 |
Description: | viii, 330 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction. Signing on / Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle, and Jane Lewty -- Medium and metaphor. Inventing the radio cosmopolitan: vernacular modernism at a standstill / Aaron Jaffe -- Wireless ego: the pulp physics of psychoanalysis / Jeffrey Sconce -- Marinetti, Marconista: the futurist manifestos and the emergence of wireless writing / Timothy C. Campbell -- "Masters of sacred ceremonies": Welles, Corwin, and a radiogenic modernist literature / Martin Spinelli -- Flying solo: the charms of the radio body / David Jenemann -- Pressures and intrusions. Gertrude Stein and the radio / Sarah Wilson -- The Voice of America in Richard Wright's Lawd today! / Jonah Willihnganz -- Annexing the oracular voice: form, ideology and the BBC / Debra Rae Cohen -- Desmond MacCarthy, Bloomsbury, and the aestheticist ethics of broadcasting / Todd Avery -- "We speak to India": T.S. Eliot's wartime broadcasts and the frontiers of culture / Michael Coyle -- Negotiations, transactions, translations. "What they had heard said written": Joyce, Pound and the cross-correspondence of radio / Jane Lewty -- "Speech without practical locale": radio and Lorine Niedecker's aurality / Brook Houglum -- Materializing Millay: the 1930s radio broadcasts / Lesley Wheeler -- Updating Baudelaire for the radio age: the refractive poetics of "The pleasures of merely circulating" / J. Stan Barrett -- I switch off: Beckett and the ideals of radio / Steven Connor. |
Responsibility: | edited by Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle & Jane Lewty. |
Abstract:
It has long been accepted that film helped shape the modernist novel and that modernist poetry would be inconceivable without the typewriter. Yet radio, a key influence on modernist literature, remains the invisible medium. This title argues that radio led to changes in textual and generic forms.
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