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The program era : postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing
- Title
- The program era : postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing / Mark McGurl.
- Author
- McGurl, Mark, 1966-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 466 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-455) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-3066
- ISBN
- 9780674033191 (alk. paper)
- 0674033191 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008050588
- OCLC
- 261174089
- Author
- McGurl, Mark, 1966-
- Title
- The program era : postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing / Mark McGurl.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-455) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-3066