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[Enhanced Credo edition]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (19 entries) : 16 images |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Fiona Green -- I Magazine and marketplace: -- 1 The New Yorker, the middlebrow, and the periodical marketplace in 1925 / Faye Hammill -- 2 "We Stand Corrected": New Yorker Fact-checking and the business of American accuracy / Sarah Cain -- 3 Marianne Moore and the hidden persuaders / Fiona Green -- II Self-Fashioning: -- 4 Philip Roth's Kinds of Writing / Bharat Tandon -- 5 Spark's proofs / Deborah Bowman -- 6 Sylvia Plath and "The Blessed Glossy New Yorker" / Linda Freedman -- 7 The distractions of John Cheever / Tamara Follini -- III Lightness and gravity: -- 8 Portrait of the Rabbit as a young beau: John Updike, New Yorker humorist / Thomas Karshan -- 9 Sports at The New Yorker / Kasia Boddy -- 10 The New Yorker life of Hannah Arendt's mind / Duncan Kelly -- 11 On blustering: Dwight Macdonald, modernism and The New Yorker / Tom Perrin. |
| Summary |
This collection of newly commissioned critical essays reads across and between New Yorker departments, from sports writing to short stories, cartoons to reporters at large, poetry to annals of business. Attending to the relations between these kinds of writing and the magazine's visual and material constituents, the collection examines the distinctive ways in which imaginative writing has inhabited the 'prime real estate' of this enormously influential periodical. In bringing together a range of sharply angled analyses of particular authors, styles, columns, and pages, this book offers multiple perspectives on American writing and periodical culture at specific moments in twentieth-century history. Key Features:. Eleven new perspectives on major American writers, including Roth, Cheever, Plath, and Updike, in relation to their first publication contexts Reconsiders modern and contemporary American writing and periodical culture, focusing critical attention on commercially successful 'smart' magazines Draws on new research in The New Yorker's manuscript and digital archives A distinctive combination of close critical reading and cultural analysis |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) -- History.
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New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) |
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History. |
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New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) |
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American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American prose literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Periodicals -- Publishing -- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century.
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Periodicals -- Publishing. |
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New York (State) |
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Journalism -- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century.
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Journalism. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. |
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REFERENCE / General. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Green, Fiona (Senior lecturer in American literature), editor, contributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 074868249X 9780748682492 xi, 259 pages |
| ISBN |
9781785390609 electronic book |
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1785390600 electronic book |
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9780748682508 electronic book |
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0748682503 electronic book |
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9780748682515 electronic book |
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0748682511 electronic book |
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9780748682492 (print) |
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074868249X (print) |
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