Broadcasting modernism
By: edited by Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle, and Jane Lewty.
Contributors: Cohen, Debra Rae.; Coyle, Michael, 1957-; Lewty, Jane.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780813033495
Subjects: Radio and literature; Modernism (Literature); Radio authorship; Radio plays -- History and criticism; Radio broadcasting -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Signing on / Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle, and Jane Lewty; title: Medium and metaphor. Inventing the radio cosmopolitan: vernacular modernism at a standstill / Aaron Jaffe; title: Wireless ego: the pulp physics of psychoanalysis / Jeffrey Sconce; title: Marinetti, Marconista: the futurist manifestos and the emergence of wireless writing / Timothy C. Campbell; title: "Masters of sacred ceremonies": Welles, Corwin, and a radiogenic modernist literature / Martin Spinelli; title: Flying solo: the charms of the radio body / David Jenemann; title: Pressures and intrusions. Gertrude Stein and the radio / Sarah Wilson; title: The Voice of America in Richard Wright's Lawd today! / Jonah Willihnganz; title: Annexing the oracular voice: form, ideology and the BBC / Debra Rae Cohen; title: Desmond MacCarthy, Bloomsbury, and the aestheticist ethics of broadcasting / Todd Avery; title: "We speak to India": T. S. Eliot's Wartime broadcasts and the frontiers of culture / Michael Coyle; title: Negotiations, transactions, translations. "What they had heard said written": Joyce, Pound and the cross-correspondence of radio / Jane Lewty; title: "Speech without practical locale": radio and Lorine Niedecker's aurality / Brook Houglum; title: Materializing Millay: the 1930s radio broadcasts / Lesley Wheeler; title: Updating Baudelaire for the radio age: The refractive poetics of "The pleasures of merely circulating" / J. Stan Barrett; title: I switch off: Beckett and the ideals of radio / Steven Connor.