Modernism at the microphone : radio, propaganda, and literary aesthetics during World War II / Melissa Dinsman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dinsman, Melissa, author.

Series:

Historicizing modernism.

Historicizing modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio and literature.

Radio in propaganda.

World War, 1939-1945--Radio broadcasting and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Summary:

"As the Second World War raged throughout Europe, modernist writers often became crucial voices in the propaganda efforts of both sides. Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II is a comprehensive study of the role modernist writers' radio works played in the propaganda war and the relationship between modernist literary aesthetics and propaganda. Drawing on new archival research, the book covers the broadcast work of such key figures as George Orwell, Orson Welles, Dorothy L. Sayers, Louis MacNeice, Mulk Raj Anand, T.S. Eliot, and P.G. Wodehouse. In addition to the work of Anglo-American modernists, Melissa Dinsman also explores the radio work of exiled German writers, such as Thomas Mann, as well as Ezra Pound's notorious pro-fascist broadcasts. In this way, the book reveals modernism's engagement with new technologies that opened up transnational boundaries under the pressures of war."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.

ISBN:

9781474220361

1474220363

9781472595096

1472595092

OCLC:

915142207