id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_wyueu3an4vfihobep7yickme5m Debra Rae Cohen Melissa Dinsman. Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics during World War II. Historicizing Modernism. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Pp. 247. $89.99 (cloth) 2018 3 .pdf application/pdf 1983 103 51 Melissa Dinsman's Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics during World War II valuably contributes to the burgeoning field of what one might call literary radio studies. that they used wartime radio to translate modernist aesthetics for a mass audience, thus blurring the lines between literature and propaganda. Adorno) between war and radio; literary broadcasters deployed the medium, she argues, in illustrate her claim that American audiences had already internalized the "socio-historical correlation between radio and war" (27), pointing to the Wicked Witch of the West's "Surrender Dinsman sees in the final destruction of the media system in The War of the Worlds, and in Dinsman argues for the decision made by her subjects to broadcast during the war as Last Outposts on the Zulu Frontiers: Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison had its beginnings in 1995 as Graham Dominy's doctoral dissertation at the University of London, under ./cache/work_wyueu3an4vfihobep7yickme5m.pdf ./txt/work_wyueu3an4vfihobep7yickme5m.txt