"First paperback printing, 2013"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-316) and index.
Contents:
I switch off: Beckett and the ideals of radio / Steven Connor. 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.
Summary:
The contributors argue that radio led to changes in textual and generic forms. Modernist authors embraced the emerging medium, creating texts that were to be heard but not read, incorporating the device into their stories, and using it to publicize their work. They saw in radio the same spirit of experimentation that animated modernism itself.
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