Broadcasting in the Modernist Era

by Feldman, Matthew; Mead, Henry; Tonning, Erik

• ISBN13: 9781472512482
• ISBN10: 1472512480
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-07-17
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The era of literary modernism coincided with a dramatic expansion of broadcast media throughout Europe, which challenged avant-garde writers with new modes of writing and provided them with a global audience for their work. Historicizing these developments and drawing on new sources for research – including the BBC archives and other important collections - Broadcasting in the Modernist Era explores the ways in which canonical writers engaged with the new media of radio and television. Considering the interlinked areas of broadcasting ‘culture' and politics' in this period, the book engages the radio writing and broadcasts of such writers as Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, George Orwell, E. M. Forster, J. B. Priestley, Dorothy L. Sayers, David Jones and Jean-Paul Sartre. With chapters by leading international scholars, the volume's empirical-based approach aims to open up new avenues for understandings of radiogenic writing in the mass-media age.

Author Biography

Matthew Feldman is Reader in contemporary history at Teesside University, UK.

Henry Mead is a Tutor at Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK.

Erik Tonning is Research Director of the Modernism and Christianity project at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both published by Bloomsbury.

Table of Contents

Part I: Context and Overview Editors' Introduction

1. Modernism and Broadcasting: A Technological and Contextual Overview, René Wolf (Teaching Associate, Royal Holloway University of London, UK and Director, Backdoor Broadcasting Company,UK)

Part II: Broadcasting and Fiction

2. Invasion, Invention,Television: Joyce's "Tellavicious" at Finnegans Wake, Finn Fordham (Reader in 20th Century Literature, Royal Holloway University of London, UK)

3.Pub, Parlour, Theatre: Radio in the Imagination of W. B. Yeats, Charles Armstrong (Professor, University of Agder, Norway)

Part III: Broadcasting Non-Fiction / Broadcasting Ideology

4.'What the Listener Wants, and a Little Bit More": Brecht and Benjamin's Radio Work and the Question of Ideology, René Wolf (Teaching Associate, Royal Holloway University of London, UK and Director, Backdoor Broadcasting Company, UK)

5.Virgina Woolf and the Politics of Broadcasting, Randi Koppen (Professor, University of Bergen, Norway)

6.Toward an Empirical Reconstruction of Ezra Pound and Radio, 1910-1945, Matthew Feldman (Reader in Contemporary History, Teeside University, UK)

7.Radio Broadcasting in Fascist Italy: Between Totalitarianism, Jazz and Futurism, Massimo Ragnedda (Lecturer in Mass Communication, Northumbria University, UK)

8. JB Priestley and Radio, David Addyman (Visiting Lecturer, Royal Holloway University of London, UK)

9.George Orwell's Broadcasts to India, Henry Mead (University of Oxford, UK)

10.Conquering the Virtual Public: Jean-Paul Sartre's La Tribune des Temps Modernes and the Radio in France, Alys Moody (Lecturer, Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK)

Part IV: Radiogenic Writing

11."I Often Wish You Could Answer Me Back: and So Perhaps Do You!": E.M. Forster and BBC Radio Broadcasting, Peter Fifield (St John's College, University of Oxford, UK)

12. David Jones: Christian Modernism at the BBC, Erik Tonning (University of Bergen, Norway)

13."And It Is Necessary If You Are to be Really and Truly Alive It Is Necessary to be At Once Talking and Listening": the Radiogenic Writing of Gertrude Stein, Brynhildur Boyce (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)

14. The 'Impersonation' of Divinity: Language, Authenticity and Embodiment in Dorothy L. Sayer's The Man Born To Be King, Alex Goody (Reader in 20th Century Literature, Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Afterword, Daniela Caselli (Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK)

Bibliography

Index