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The BBC talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960 : a selected edition / edited by Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls ; foreword by P. N. Furbank.
Van Pelt Library PR6011.O58 A6 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.
- Forster, E. M.
- Books--Great Britain--Reviews.
- Books.
- Criticism--Great Britain.
- Criticism.
- Radio addresses, debates, etc.
- Great Britain.
- Radio addresses, debates, etc--Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Reviews.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 477 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- "Seventy of Forster's BBC broadcasts trace his evolution from novelist to skillful cultural critic, revealing his vitality and importance as an astute critic of contemporary literature--from Joyce to Steinbeck to Tagore--and a political activist for India. Scripts dating from WWII provide new perspective on the arts during wartime"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface: Editorial History of This Project xi
- The Scripts
- 1929
- 15 February "The Great Frost" 51
- 1930
- 16 April "D. H. Lawrence" 55
- 1931
- 13 August "Books" (Coleridge, Cresswell, Heard) 62
- 1932
- 20 February "Conversation in the Train" 69
- 3 October "New Books" (Wordsworth, Outline of English Literature, Edith Sitwell anthology) 80
- 10 October "Book Talk" (Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson) 86
- 24 October "Book Talk" (Newbolt, Richards, Benson, Robins) 93
- 7 November "Books of the Week" (D. Scott, Anthony, Bone, Watson, Maxwell) 99
- 21 November "New Books" ("Side Dishes": Austen, Fitzgerald, Macaulay, Huxley) 105
- 5 December "New Books" ("Tales of Unrest": Chaliapin, Trotsky, Martin, Bennett) 111
- 19 December "New Books" (The Future of Broadcasting: Lytton Strachey and Younger Writers) 117
- 1934
- 10 March "Seven Days Hard" (On Liberty) 124
- 1937
- 24 September "Talks for Sixth Forms: Introductory" 129
- 1938
- 26 December "Bookshelf" (Books of 1938) 137
- 1941
- 4 July "Books and Reading: Books in 1941" 145
- 15 October "Some Books" (Koestler, Symons) 150
- 10 December "Some Books: A Backward Glance over 1941" 155
- 1942
- 11 February "Some Books" (Paper Shortage and Huxley's Grey Eminence) 159
- 24 February "Masterpieces of English Literature" (Hardy) 164
- 4 March "Some Books" (Zweig) 172
- 1 April "Some Books" (Contemporary Poets) 177
- 29 April "Some Books" (Kipling, Edward Thompson, and Indian Writers) 184
- 27 May "Some Books" (Rebecca West) 189
- 24 June "Some Books" (American Writers) 194
- 14 August "My Debt to India" 198
- 19 August "Some Books" (Shakespeare Plays in London) 202
- 11 November "New Books" (Indian Books and Dancing) 207
- 9 December "Some Books" (Narayana Menon, Yeats, Eliot) 212
- 1943
- 6 January "Some Books: New Year's Greeting" (National Gallery Wartime Concerts) 217
- 3 February "Some Books" (C. S. Lewis, Heard, Mulk Raj Anand) 222
- 20 June "Some Books" (Stage Productions in London) 227
- 18 July "Some Books" (The Indian Question) 232
- 12 September "Some Books" (Tagore, Edward Thompson, Indian Books) 238
- 3 October "Modern Men of Letters: Lytton Strachey" 243
- 10 October "Some Books" (Books on Japan) 248
- 4 November "Some Books" (Mark Twain) 253
- 2 December "Some Books" (Books on India) 258
- 1944
- 6 January "Unwillingly to School: Matthew Arnold" 263
- 27 January "Some Books" (Koestler, Plomer) 278
- 24 February "Some Books" (H. Levin's James Joyce) 283
- 23 March "Some Books" ("Is the Novel Dead?") 288
- 11 April "Some Books" (Jane Austen and Indian Books) 293
- 9 May "Some Books" (The Lake District and Wordsworth) 300
- 24 October "Some Books" (National Gallery Concerts, Tolstoy, Shaw) 305
- 21 November "Some Books" (Shakespeare in London) 310
- 15 December "English Prose: The Short Story" (West, Plomer) 315
- 19 December "Some Books" (Bhagavad-Gita and Books on India) 320
- 1945
- 13 February "Some Books" (Books on World War II) 325
- 10 April "Some Books" (Henry V, Huxley, Auden) 330
- 9 May "Some Books" (Osbert Sitwell, Indian Music) 335
- 20 June "The Development of Criticism: Matthew Arnold" 341
- 3 July "Some Books" (Peter Grimes) 346
- 31 July "Some Books" (Valery, Maillaud, Mann) 351
- 1946
- 3 July "Some Books" (Bengali Books) 357
- 31 July "Some Books" (Shaw, P.E.N., Britten) 363
- 28 August "Some Books" (H. G. Wells, Forrest Reid, Osbert Sitwell) 368
- 20 November "Some Books" (Spender, Warner, Acton) 374
- 1947
- 15 January "Some Books" (Russell's History of Western Philosophy) 379
- 12 February "Some Books" (Billy Budd) 384
- 12 March "Some Books" (Writers and Democracy) 389
- 15 August "Message to India" (At Partition) 394
- 1948
- 13 April "It's Good English" (Biography of George Crabbe) 396
- 1949
- 11 January "I Speak for Myself" 401
- 1951
- 16 June "Saturday Review" (The Fourth Aldeburgh Festival) 406
- 29 September "Fifth Anniversary of the Third Programme" 410
- 1952
- 8 June "Samuel Butler" (Third Programme) 420
- 1953
- 6 September "The Pelican History of Art-The Art and Architecture of India" (Third Programme) 428
- 1955
- 14 February "The Mint by T. E. Lawrence" (Third Programme) 436
- 1956
- 5 October "Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson" (Third Programme) 445
- 1958
- 28 December "Recollections of Nassenheide" (Third Programme) 456.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826218001
- 0826218008
- OCLC:
- 183147364
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