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British Writers and the Media, 1930–45

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Keith Williams

    1. Department of English, University of Dundee, Scotland

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Obituaries of History and the Thirties Sublime

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    Pages 1-19

  3. A Twisted Skein: The Media Background

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    Pages 20-47

  4. Refractions: The Media as Subject Matter

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    Pages 48-113

  5. Responses: The Mass Media as Formal Influences

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    Pages 114-150

  6. Involvements: Writing for the Mass Media

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    Pages 151-231

  7. Conclusions

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    Pages 232-240

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 241-284
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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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  • Department of English, University of Dundee, Scotland

    Keith Williams

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