The program era : postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing / Mark McGurl.

Author/creator McGurl, Mark, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiv, 466 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Introduction: halls of mirror -- Autobardolatry: modernist fiction, progressive education, "creative writing" -- Understanding Iowa: the religion of institutionalization -- The social construction of unreality: creative writing in the open system -- Our phonocentrism: finding the voice of the (minority) storyteller -- The hidden injuries of craft: mass higher education and lower-middle-class modernism -- Art and alma mater: the family, the nation, and the primal scene of instruction -- Miniature America: or, the program in transplanetary perspective -- Afterword: systematic excellence.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 411-455) and index.
LCCN 2008050588
ISBN9780674033191 (alk. paper)
ISBN0674033191 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS379 .M344 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold