Research Catalog

Title

Broadcasting modernism / edited by Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle & Jane Lewty.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Cohen, Debra Rae.
• Coyle, Michael, 1957-
• Lewty, Jane.

Description

viii, 330 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Radio and literature
• Modernism (Literature)
• Radio authorship
• Radio plays > History and criticism
• Radio broadcasting > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-316) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Signing on / Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle, and Jane Lewty -- Medium and metaphor. Inventing the radio cosmopolitan: vernacular modernism at a standstill / Aaron Jaffe -- Wireless ego: the pulp physics of psychoanalysis / Jeffrey Sconce -- Marinetti, Marconista: the futurist manifestos and the emergence of wireless writing / Timothy C. Campbell -- "Masters of sacred ceremonies": Welles, Corwin, and a radiogenic modernist literature / Martin Spinelli -- Flying solo: the charms of the radio body / David Jenemann -- Pressures and intrusions. Gertrude Stein and the radio / Sarah Wilson -- The Voice of America in Richard Wright's Lawd today! / Jonah Willihnganz -- Annexing the oracular voice: form, ideology and the BBC / Debra Rae Cohen -- Desmond MacCarthy, Bloomsbury, and the aestheticist ethics of broadcasting / Todd Avery -- "We speak to India": T. S. Eliot's wartime broadcasts and the frontiers of culture / Michael Coyle -- Negotiations, transactions, translations. "What they had heard said written": Joyce, Pound and the cross-correspondence of radio / Jane Lewty -- "Speech without practical locale": radio and Lorine Niedecker's aurality / Brook Houglum -- Materializing Millay: the 1930s radio broadcasts / Lesley Wheeler -- Updating Baudelaire for the radio age: the refractive poetics of "The pleasures of merely circulating" / J. Stan Barrett -- I switch off: Beckett and the ideals of radio / Steven Connor.

Call Number

MWGD 10-2680

ISBN

• 9780813033495 (alk. paper)
• 0813033497 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2008052384

OCLC

259265349

Title

Broadcasting modernism / edited by Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle & Jane Lewty.

Imprint

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-316) and index.

Added Author

Cohen, Debra Rae.

Coyle, Michael, 1957-

Lewty, Jane.

Research Call Number

MWGD 10-2680