Writing for The New Yorker : : Critical Essays on an American Periodical / / Fiona Green.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Green, Fiona,
• MitwirkendeR: Boddy, Kasia,; Bowman, Deborah,; Cain, Sarah,; Follini, Tamara,; Freedman, Linda,; Green, Fiona,; Hammill, Faye,; Karshan, Thomas,; Kelly, Duncan,; Perrin, Tom,; Tandon, Bharat,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 16 B/W illustrations

Original critical essays on an iconic American periodical, providing new insights into twentieth-century literary cultureGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748682492','ISBN:9780748682508']);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 contextsReconsiders modern and contemporary American writing and periodical culture, focusing critical attention on commercially successful 'smart' magazinesDraws on new research in The New Yorker's manuscript and digital archivesA distinctive combination of close critical reading and cultural analysis"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviation -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Contributos -- I. Magazine and Marketplace -- 1. The New Yorker, the Middlebrow, and the Periodical Marketplace in 1925 -- 2. 'We Stand Corrected': New Yorker Fact-checking and the Business of American Accuracy -- 3. Marianne Moore and the Hidden Persuaders -- II Self-Fashioning -- 4. Philip Roth's Kinds of Writing -- 5. Spark's Proofs -- 6. Sylvia Plath and 'The Blessed Glossy New Yorker' -- 7. The Distractions of John Cheever -- III Lightness and Gravity -- 8. Portrait of the Rabbit as a Young Beau: John Updike, New Yorker Humorist -- 9. Sports at The New Yorker -- 10. The New Yorker Life of Hannah Arendt's Mind -- 11. On Blustering: Dwight Macdonald, Modernism and The New Yorker -- Index