Broadcasting Modernism Book

Introduction Signing On Debra Rae Cohen Cohen, Debra Rae Michael Coyle Coyle, Michael Jane Lewty Lewty, Jane 1

Pt. I Medium & Metaphor

1 Inventing the Radio Cosmopolitan: Vernacular Modernism at a Standstill Aaron Jaffe Jaffe, Aaron 11

2 Wireless Ego: The Pulp Physics of Psychoanalysis Jeffrey Sconce Sconce, Jeffrey 31

3 Marinetti, Marconista: The Futurist Manifestos and the Emergence of Wireless Writing Timothy C. Campbell Campbell, Timothy C. 51

4 "Masters of Sacred Ceremonies": Welles, Corwin, and a Radiogenic Modernist Literature Martin Spinelli Spinelli, Martin 68

5 Flying Solo: The Charms of the Radio Body David Jenemann Jenemann, David 89

Pt. II Pressures & Intrusions

6 Gertrude Stein and the Radio Sarah Wilson Wilson, Sarah 107

7 The Voice of America in Richard Wright's Lawd Today! Jonah Willihnganz Willihnganz, Jonah 124

8 Annexingthe Oracular Voice: Form, Ideology and the BBC Debra Rae Cohen Cohen, Debra Rae 142

9 Desmond MacCarthy, Bloomsbury, and the Aestheticist Ethics of Broadcasting Todd Avery Avery, Todd 158

10 "We Speak to India": T.S. Eliot's Wartime Broadcasts and the Frontiers of Culture Michael Coyle Coyle, Michael 176

Pt. III Negotiations, Transactions, Translations

11 "What They Had Heard Said Written": Joyce, Pound and the Cross-Correspondence of Radio Jane Lewty Lewty, Jane 199

12 "Speech Without Practical Locale": Radio and Lorine Niedecker's Aurality Brook Houglum Houglum, Brook 221

13 Materializing Millay: The 1930s Radio Broadcasts Lesley Wheeler Wheeler, Lesley 238

14 Updating Baudelaire for the Radio Age: The Refractive Poetics of "The Pleasures of Merely Circulating" J. StanBarrett Barrett, J. Stan 257

15 I Switch Off: Beckett and the Ordeals of Radio Steven Connor Connor, Steven 274

Bibliography 295

Index 319