The wireless past : Anglo-Irish writers and the BBC, 1931-1968 /

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...

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Main Author: Bloom, Emily C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford mid-century studies.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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