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Allan Hepburn - Listening In: Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen - 9780748640423 - V9780748640423
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Listening In: Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen

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Description for Listening In: Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen Paperback. Brings together a substantial number of Elizabeth Bowen's ungathered and unknown radio broadcasts, interviews and public lectures. Editor(s): Hepburn, Allan. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DNS; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
The novelist Elizabeth Bowen believed that media was a personal and social force. From the 1940s to the 1960s, she took an active role in the media and radio in particular by writing essays for radio broadcast, improvising interviews on the air and giving public lectures. Despite her pronounced stammer and her complaints that reading her own work gave her lockjaw, she was a spellbinding talker. Bowen became known as a public intellectual capable of talking on numerous subjects with wit and general insight. Invited to university campuses in the UK and US, she delivered important lectures on language, the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748640423
SKU
V9780748640423
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-5

About Allan Hepburn
Allan Hepburn is Associate Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal. He has also edited The Bazaar and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen and People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen, both published by Edinburgh University Press.

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