Broadcasting Modernism

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Signing On 1 Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle & Jane Lewty Part I Me di um & Me taphor 1 Inventing the Radio Cosmopolitan: Vernacular Modernism at a Standstill 11 Aaron Jaffe 2 Wireless Ego: The Pulp Physics of Psychoanalysis 31 Jeffrey Sconce 3 Marinetti, Marconista: The Futurist Manifestos and the Emergence of Wireless Writing 51 Timothy C. Campbell 4 “Masters of Sacred Ceremonies”: Welles, Corwin, and a Radiogenic Modernist Literature 68 Martin Spinelli 5 Flying Solo: The Charms of the Radio Body 89 David Jenemann Part II Pre s s ure s & Intrus i ons 6 Gertrude Stein and the Radio 107 Sarah Wilson 7 The Voice of America in Richard Wright’s Lawd Today! 124 Jonah Willihnganz 8 Annexing the Oracular Voice: Form, Ideology and the BBC 142 Debra Rae Cohen 9 Desmond MacCarthy, Bloomsbury, and the Aestheticist Ethics of Broadcasting 158 Todd Avery 10 “We Speak to India”: T. S. Eliot’s Wartime Broadcasts and the Frontiers of Culture 176 Michael Coyle Part III N e g oti ati ons , Transac t ion s, Trans lati ons 11 “What They Had Heard Said Written”: Joyce, Pound and the Cross-Correspondence of Radio 199 Jane Lewty 12 “Speech Without Practical Locale”: Radio and Lorine Niedecker’s Aurality 221 Brook Houglum 13 Materializing Millay: The 1930s Radio Broadcasts 238 Lesley Wheeler 14 Updating Baudelaire for the Radio Age: The Refractive Poetics of “The Pleasures of Merely Circulating” 257 J. Stan Barrett 15 I Switch Off: Beckett and the Ordeals of Radio 274 Steven Connor Bibliography 295 Contributors 317 Index 319 vi Contents ...