British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-41213-2 (ISBN)
Chapters re-evaluate the propaganda work of prominent writers including Arthur Koestler and Dylan Thomas in the light of new archival research, study how organisations including the BBC, British Council and Ministry of Information engaged with new media forms, analyse cultural representations of propaganda service and investigate how British literature and culture was deployed and projected as a form of soft power across the globe.
Featuring contributions from a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, visual culture, book history and radio history, this book brings together a constellation of established and emerging scholars to show the crucial role played in shaping and mediating the techniques and content of British information campaigns of the mid-twentieth century.
Beatriz Lopez completed a PhD on Muriel Spark and propaganda at Durham University, UK. James Smith is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, UK. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s and the author of British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960. Guy Woodward is Research Associate in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War.
Introduction: Literature, Propaganda and the Intellectual – Beatriz Lopez, James Smith and Guy Woodward
1. Haw-Hawing Hitler: Radio Comedy as Propaganda – Debra Rae Cohen
2. Radio Pages, Morale Reading and the Word War – Damien Keane
3. Dylan Thomas at the Microphone: The BBC’s Book of Verse and Imperial Cultural Propaganda – Daniel Ryan Morse
4. PEN, Refugee Writers and Propaganda – Katherine Cooper
5. Visual Storytelling in the Ministry of Information's Wartime Exhibitions – Harriet Atkinson
6. Propaganda as Elegy in the Ministry of Information's Britain in Pictures Series – Megan Faragher
7. Colonial Insurgency, Propaganda and the British ‘soldier-aesthete’: Lawrence Durrell, Maurice Cardiff, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Freya Stark in the Cyprus Revolt – Maria Hadjiathanasiou
8. John Bankole Jones, London Line and the Central Office of Information in the Era of Cultural Propaganda – Scott Anthony
9. The British Council, Writers and their Work and English Literature as Cultural Diplomacy – James Smith
10. Lynette Roberts’s ‘Gods with Stainless Ears’ and the Poetics of Propaganda – Adam Piette
11. ‘Dialectical tight-rope acts of self-deception': Arthur Koestler’s Anti-Communist Propaganda – Annabel Williams
12. Psychological Warfare in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow – Kirk Robert Graham
13. Dramatizing Secrecy and Propaganda: Sir David Hare in Conversation – Guy Woodward
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 15 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-41213-9 / 1350412139 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-41213-2 / 9781350412132 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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