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The New Yorker; New York; Canadian literature; American literature; transnationalism; nationalism; North American studies; cosmopolitanism; collaboration; multiple authorship; cultural production; editing; revision; Alice Munro; Morley Callaghan; Mavis Gallant; William Maxwell; Harold Ross; Charles McGrath; Katharine White
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Transnational Conversations: The New Yorker And Canadian Short Story Writers, Nadine Fladd
Transnational Conversations: The New Yorker And Canadian Short Story Writers, Nadine Fladd
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This dissertation explores The New Yorker magazine's role in shaping the Canadian short story, the contributions of Canadian authors to the magazine, and the aesthetic and ideological implications of transnational literary production. Using archival evidence, it explicates the publication histories of stories by Morley Callaghan, Mavis Gallant, and Alice Munro, as well as these authors' relationships with their editors at The New Yorker, in order to demonstrate some of the ways that Canadian literature emerged out of, as well as contributed to, North American transnational contexts. This project uses the work of textual studies scholars, and applies theories of …