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Tuning in to the Neo-Avant-Garde: Experimental Radio Plays in the Postwar Period

Hardback

Main Details

Title Tuning in to the Neo-Avant-Garde: Experimental Radio Plays in the Postwar Period
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Inge Arteel
Edited by Lars Bernaerts
Edited by Siebe Bluijs
Edited by Pim Verhulst
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreRadio
Literature - history and criticism
ISBN/Barcode 9781526155719
ClassificationsDewey:809.222
Audience
General
Illustrations 8 black & white illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 6 July 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Bringing together an international and diverse group of scholars, Tuning in to the neo-avant-garde offers the first in-depth study of the radio medium's significance as a site of artistic experimentation for the literary neo-avant-garde in the postwar period. Covering radio works from the 1950s until the 2010s, the collection charts how artists across the UK, Europe and North America continued as well as reacted to the legacies of the historical avant-garde and modernism, operating within different national broadcasting contexts, by placing radio in an intermedial dialogue with prose, poetry, theatre, music and film. In doing so, the volume explores a wide variety of acoustic genres - radio play, feature, electroacoustic music, radiophonic poem, radio opera - to show that the medium deserves to occupy a more central place than it currently does in studies of literature, (inter)media(lity) and the (neo-)avant-garde.

Author Biography

Inge Arteel is Associate Professor of German Literature at the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Lars Bernaerts is Associate Professor of Dutch Literature at the Department of Literary Studies of Ghent University Siebe Bluijs is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Communication and Cognition of Tilburg University Pim Verhulst is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Antwerp -- .