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Radio after Modernism / Modernism after Radio
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Abstract
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| While it is beyond all doubt that the field of modernism has contributed enormously to the emancipation of literary radio studies in recent years, it has also imposed limitations on the period and authors we investigate, as well as the critical questions we ask ourselves as researchers. This article therefore sets out to assess what literary studies of radio can offer the field of modernism beyond the efforts that have already been made, owing to the recent upsurge of ‘New Modernist Studies’. Up until the 1980s, scholarly investigations of radio drama were mainly undertaken by (former) BBC staff, and could thus be quite prescriptive, or remained isolated scholarly initiatives that failed to cohere into a discipline and make a lasting impact – although now, from the retrospect of modernism studies, they have all been recognized as pioneering works. After a brief overview of the present state of affairs in radiophonic approaches to the 1920s and 1930s, this article aims to show the continued relevance of the modernist framework for critical enquiries into the medium for the postwar period. On the basis of three radio plays – Dylan Thomas’s 'Under Milk Wood' (1954), Samuel Beckett’s 'Embers' (1959) and Caryl Churchill’s 'Identical Twins' (1968) – I will argue that the focus on the representation of fictional minds or the so-called ‘inward turn’, a concept that was defining for and often still is central to the critical discourse on prewar or ‘high’ modernism, can continue to be relevant for the 1950s and 1960s, even beyond. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Modernisme / Modernism / Silva, E.-L. [edit.]; De Witte, B. [edit.]
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Cahier voor literatuurwetenschap. - -;
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Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap ; 13
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Publication
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Gent
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Academia Press
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2021
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Volume/pages
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p. 121-134
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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