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Book SynopsisIn Sight Unseen radio drama, a genre traditionally dismissed as popular culture, is celebrated as high art.
Trade Review“These absorbing discussions cast a strong light on the nature of radio’s appeal for playwrights as different as Barker and Beckett, Stoppard and Rudkin. If there were any doubt about the value and fascination of radio drama as a form in its own right it would be put to flight by Elissa Guralnick’s original, penetrating, and very readable study.” * The Review of English Studies *
“This often brilliant study—subtle, remarkably capacious, and very well-written—sets out to reclaim for us the potentialities of aural art.” * English Language Notes *
“Guralnick’s book is a pleasure to read, lucidly written, and free of jargon, without foregoing depth of perception, complexity, and range of thought…. This is a valuable contribution to the field of drama, as well as radio drama, and Guralnick generously meets her self-imposed objectives.” * Essays in Theatre *
“This is a book which should prove essential reading for anyone remotely interested in radio drama and, even more vitally, for those people who think of radio as offering little more than a watered-down version of the play on the stage…. This is an important book, moving discussion of radio drama into new territory.” * New Theatre Quarterly *
