British Writers and the Media, 1930–45

Williams, Keith

Richly informative about a host of writers from Auden to Priestley, and theoretically informed, this wide-ranging new study demonstrates that the 1930s, remembered usually for uncomplicated political engagement, can rather be seen as initiating the key elements of postmodernism, developing the individual's sense of `elsewhere' through new technology of representation and propaganda. Keith Williams analyses the relationship between the leftist writers of the decade and the mass-media, showing how newspapers, radio and film were treated in their writing and how they radically reshaped its forms, assumptions and imagery.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1996-03-31

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333638965

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24578-9

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 284