Title The wireless past : Anglo-Irish writers and the BBC, 1931-1968 / Emily C. Bloom

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 205 pages) : illustrations Series Oxford mid-century studies Oxford mid-century studies. Contents Introduction. Air-borne bards -- W.B. Yeats' radiogenic poetry -- Louis MacNeice in the echo chamber -- Elizabeth Bowen's spectral radio -- Samuel Beckett's sound archives -- Conclusion. Legacies of radiogenic aesthetics Summary Emily Bloom chronicles the emergence of the British Broadcasting Corporation as a significant promotional platform and aesthetic influence for Irish modernism from the 1930s to the 1960s. She situates the works of W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Louis MacNeice, and Samuel Beckett in the context of the media environments that shaped their works "The Wireless Past chronicles the emergence of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a significant promotional platform and aesthetic influence for Irish modernism from the 1930s to the 1960s. This is the first book-length study of Irish literary broadcasting on the BBC and situates the works of W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Louis MacNeice, and Samuel Beckett in the context of the media environments that shaped their works. Drawing upon unpublished radio archives, this book shows that radio broadcasting, rather than prompting a break with literary history and traditional literary forms, in fact served as an important means for reinterpreting the legacies of oral and print traditions. In the years surrounding World War II, radio came to be seen as a catalyst for literary revivals and, simultaneously, a force for experimentation. This double valence of radio--conjoining revivalism and experimentation--creates mid-century modernism's radiogenic aesthetics"-- Back cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject MacNeice, Louis, 1907-1963. SUBJECT MacNeice, Louis, 1907-1963 fast Subject British Broadcasting Corporation -- History -- 20th century SUBJECT British Broadcasting Corporation fast British Broadcasting Corporation gnd Subject Radio and literature -- Ireland -- History English literature -- Irish authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism Irish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland Radio broadcasting, British -- History -- 20th century Radio broadcasting -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Radio producers and directors -- Great Britain Poets, Irish -- 20th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications. English literature -- Irish authors Irish literature Modernism (Literature) Poets, Irish Radio and literature Radio broadcasting Radio broadcasting, British Radio producers and directors Englisch Literatur Great Britain Ireland Irland Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191066535 0191066532 9780191813979 0191813974

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