Modernism at the Microphone - Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II

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.>

Sommario

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

Info autore

Melissa Dinsman is a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Visual Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dr Melissa (Lecturer Dinsman, Melissa Dinsman, Melissa (Lecturer Dinsman
• Con la collaborazione di: Matthew Feldman (Editore), Erik Tonning (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781350028456
• ISBN: 978-1-350-02845-6
• Pagine: 264
• Serie: Historicizing Modernism; Historicizing Modernism
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Politica e sua amministrazione; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Radio / Podcasts, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General