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

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.Description: xiv, 466 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674033191 (alk. paper)
  • 0674033191 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808/.042071173 22
LOC classification:
  • PS379 .M344 2009
Online resources:
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-455) and index.

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.

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