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Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 /
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 repo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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.-- |
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| Notas: | Previously issued in print: 2018. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 220 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474444897 147444489X 9781474413602 1474413609 9781474413619 1474413617 1474413595 9781474413596 |
| Acceso: | Legal Deposit; |