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

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Dinsman, Melissa

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TextSeries: Historicizing ModernismPublication details: London Bloomsbury 2015Description: xiv, 247 pISBN:

9781472595072

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D4M6 384.54

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. (http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/modernism-at-the-microphone-9781472595072/)

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Table of Contents
Series Editors' Preface ix
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: The Voices of War 1
Voices of the wireless revolution 7
Voices of contradiction 18
Voices of the radio war 22
1. War on the Air 31
Radio's fascism and the violence of the voice 35
It's the end of the world as we know it 45
2. Militarizing the Messiah 55
I heard the voice of Jesus say 60
Christ for World War II 66
3. Transatlantic Crossings 75
MacNeice crosses the Atlantic 78
Propaganda, poetry, and the radio 82
Conquering the new world 86
4. Propaganda, Literature, and New Networks 97
Orwell's ambivalence 100
London calling 105
Orwell loses his radio voice 113
5. Clogged Communication 121
hopeful transmission 124
Can't get through to you 131
Please Mr. Postman 138
6. Haunted Network 145
Modernist hauntings 150
Mann's ghosts 154
Extending the network 165
Epilogue: A Voice from the Other Side 171
Notes 181
Bibliography 231
Index 243

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.

(http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/modernism-at-the-microphone-9781472595072/)

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