Sumario: | Introduction. Signing on / Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle, and Jane Lewty -- Medium and metaphor. Inventing the radio cosmopolitan: vernacular modernism at a standstill / Aaron Jaffe -- Wireless ego: the pulp physics of psychoanalysis / Jeffrey Sconce -- Marinetti, Marconista: the futurist manifestos and the emergence of wireless writing / Timothy C. Campbell -- "Masters of sacred ceremonies": Welles, Corwin, and a radiogenic modernist literature / Martin Spinelli -- Flying solo: the charms of the radio body / David Jenemann -- Pressures and intrusions. Gertrude Stein and the radio / Sarah Wilson -- The Voice of America in Richard Wright's Lawd today! / Jonah Willihnganz -- Annexing the oracular voice: form, ideology and the BBC / Debra Rae Cohen -- Desmond MacCarthy, Bloomsbury, and the aestheticist ethics of broadcasting / Todd Avery -- "We speak to India": T.S. Eliot's Wartime broadcasts and the frontiers of culture / Michael Coyle -- Negotiations, transactions, translations. "What they had heard said written": Joyce, Pound and the cross-correspondence of radio / Jane Lewty -- "Speech without practical locale": radio and Lorine Niedecker's aurality / Brook Houglum -- Materializing Millay: the 1930s radio broadcasts / Lesley Wheeler -- Updating Baudelaire for the radio age: The refractive poetics of "The pleasures of merely circulating" / J. Stan Barrett -- I switch off: Beckett and the ideals of radio / Steven Connor.
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