Alice Munro, Charles McGrath, and the Shaping of "The Turkey Season"

Using archival evidence of the editorial process behind the publication of the story "The Turkey Season," this article explores the collaborative literary relationship between Alice Munro and one of her long-time editors at The New Yorker magazine, Charles McGrath. It reveals McGrath'...

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Published in:The American review of Canadian studies 2015-04, Vol.45 (2), p.174-186
Main Author: Fladd, Nadine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
"The Turkey Season"
Alice Munro
Certainty
Charles McGrath
Collaboration
editor
Editors
Epistemology
McGrath, Charles
Munro, Alice
The Moons of Jupiter
The New Yorker
Writers
Writing
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Summary:Using archival evidence of the editorial process behind the publication of the story "The Turkey Season," this article explores the collaborative literary relationship between Alice Munro and one of her long-time editors at The New Yorker magazine, Charles McGrath. It reveals McGrath's exceptional contribution to the story-restructuring it by combining the two versions Munro submitted into a composite-and theorizes the composite version's effects on the epistemological grounding of the story and the narrator's certainty about her own memory of the events she recounts, both of which are features that are often considered characteristic of Munro's style in her mature writing.
ISSN:0272-2011
1943-9954
DOI:10.1080/02722011.2015.1062303