The Wireless Past
Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19968840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily C Bloom (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Wireless Past (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198749615.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4236425478 |
| Open Library | OL27415566M |
| ISBN | 9780198749615 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
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 by W. B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Louis MacNeice, and Samuel Beckett, all of whom wrote original programmes for the BBC. These writers are representative of a larger phenomenon in which significant numbers of Anglo-Irish writers and producers flocked to the BBC in this period as censorship and political changes at home pushed them away and opportunities to connect to mass audiences drew them in to broadcasting. The Wireless Past situates these authors' works within the context of new media environments. Drawing upon unpublished radio archives, this book shows that radio broadcasting, rather than prompting a break with literary history and traditional literary forms, in fact served as an important means for reinterpreting the legacies of oral and print traditions. In the years surrounding the Second World War, radio came to be seen as a catalyst for literary revivals and, simultaneously, a force for experimentation. This double valence of radio—the conjoining of revivalism and experimentalism—create a distinctive radiogenic aesthetics in mid-century modernism
Asian American and Pacific Histories · Computer Science · British Broadcasting Corporation · British Radio broadcasting · English literature · Great britain · History · History and criticism · Irish Authors · irish authors, history and criticism · Irish literature · Irish literature, history and criticism · Modernism (Literature) · Radio and literature · Radio broadcasting
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |