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The Wireless Past. Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968.
Emily C. Bloom
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Description for The Wireless Past. Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968.
Hardcover. 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. Series: Oxford Mid-Century Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJ; APW; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick description of culture in the thirty-year period around the Second World War. With a focus on the 1930s through the 1960s, the series concentrates on fiction, poetry, film, photography, theatre, as well as art, architecture, design, and other media. The mid-century is an age of shifting groups and movements, from existentialism through abstract expressionism to confessional, serial, electronic, and pop art styles. The series charts such intellectual movements, even as it aids and abets the very best scholarly thinking about the ... Read more
The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick description of culture in the thirty-year period around the Second World War. With a focus on the 1930s through the 1960s, the series concentrates on fiction, poetry, film, photography, theatre, as well as art, architecture, design, and other media. The mid-century is an age of shifting groups and movements, from existentialism through abstract expressionism to confessional, serial, electronic, and pop art styles. The series charts such intellectual movements, even as it aids and abets the very best scholarly thinking about the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Mid-Century Studies
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198749615
SKU
V9780198749615
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About Emily C. Bloom
Emily C. Bloom is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University specializing in modern British and Irish literature. She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and has served as Assistant Professor at Georgia State University and Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy.
Reviews for The Wireless Past. Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968.
Emily Bloom's monograph is the first study to trace the involvement of Anglo-Irish writers at the BBC. It is a wonderfully rich and enlightening book - so much so that it is difficult to do justice to the depth and breadth of the research - and it is beautifully written. ... Her book represents a major step forward in radio ... Read more