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

Title
Modernism at the microphone : radio, propaganda, and literary aesthetics during World War II / Melissa Dinsman.
Author
Dinsman, Melissa
Publication
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

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Description
xiv, 247 pages : illustrations; 24cm
Summary
As the Second World War raged throughout Europe, modernist writers often became crucial voices in the propaganda efforts of both sides. This volume 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 PG. Wodehouse. In addition to the work of Ango-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.
Series Statement
Historicizing modernism
Uniform Title
Historicizing modernism.
Subject
  • English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war
  • Radio and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Propaganda
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-242) and index.
Call Number
MWGK (Great Britain) 15-5644
ISBN
  • 9781472595072
  • 1472595076
OCLC
908085067
Author
Dinsman, Melissa, author.
Title
Modernism at the microphone : radio, propaganda, and literary aesthetics during World War II / Melissa Dinsman.
Publisher
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Historicizing modernism
Historicizing modernism.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-242) and index.
Research Call Number
MWGK (Great Britain) 15-5644
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