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

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

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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 Yo...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 16 B/W illustrations
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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

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