British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond

Author:   Beatriz Lopez ,  James Smith ,  Guy Woodward
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   22 August 2024
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Author:   Beatriz Lopez ,  James Smith ,  Guy Woodward
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350412132


ISBN 10:   1350412139
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   22 August 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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 Select Bibliography

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This collection of essays on British propaganda and literature is timely, engaging, and altogether intriguing. All in all, this is an exemplary ensemble of essays that will be much appreciated by scholars working in British studies, Second World War and Cold War studies, and cultural diplomacy. * Professor Allan Hepburn, James McGill Professor of 20th Century Literature, McGill University, Canada *


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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.

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