Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Writing the Radio War: Edinburgh Critical Studies in War and Culture

Autor Ian Whittington
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 aug 2019
Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the Empire
Writing the Radio War positions the Second World War as a critical moment in the history of cultural mediation in Britain. Through chapters focusing on the middlebrow radicalism of J.B. Priestley, ground-breaking works by Louis MacNeice and James Hanley at the BBC Features Department, frontline reporting by Denis Johnston, and the emergence of a West Indian literary identity in the broadcasts of Una Marson, Writing the Radio War explores how these writers capitalised on the particularities of the sonic medium to communicate their visions of wartime and postwar Britain and its empire. By combining literary aesthetics with the acoustics of space, accent, and dialect, writers created aural communities that at times converged, and at times contended, with official wartime versions of Britain and Britishness.
Key Features
  • Merges the fields of sound studies, radio studies, and Second World War literary studies through considerations of both major and marginalized figures of wartime broadcasting
  • Brings substantial but underused archival material (from the BBC Written Archives Centre, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the British Library, and other archives) to bear on the cultural importance of radio during the war
  • Foregrounds the role of radio in bridging literary movements from the highbrow to the middlebrow, and from the regional to the imperial
  • Draws on Listener Research Reports, listener correspondence, newspaper coverage, and surveys by Mass Observation and the Wartime Social Survey in order to capture listeners' responses to wartime broadcasting in general as well as specific programs
  • Fills a gap in accounts of literary radio broadcasting, between Todd Avery's Radio Modernism (which ends at 1939) and postwar accounts of the Third Programme (by Humphrey Carpenter and Kate Whitehead) and individual writer-broadcasters
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 15885 lei  3-5 săpt.
  EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS – 7 aug 2019 15885 lei  3-5 săpt.
Hardback (1) 55149 lei  3-5 săpt.
  EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS – 5 mar 2018 55149 lei  3-5 săpt.

Preț: 15885 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 238

Preț estimativ în valută:
3041 3161$ 2521£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 15-29 ianuarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474452540
ISBN-10: 147445254X
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seria Edinburgh Critical Studies in War and Culture


Notă biografică

Ian Whittington is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) as well as a number of essays on radio studies and twentieth-century British, Irish, and Anglophone literature.

Descriere

Writing the Radio War merges the fields of sound studies, radio studies, and Second World War literary studies through considerations of both major and marginalized figures of wartime broadcasting.