Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics, and the Bbc, 1939-1945 Contributor(s): Whittington, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474413595 ISBN-13: 9781474413596 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Performing Arts | Radio - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 810.820 |
LCCN: 2017277646 |
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in War and Culture |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.01 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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
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