TY - BOOK AU - McGurl,Mark TI - The program era: postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing SN - 9780674033191 (alk. paper) AV - PS379 .M344 2009 U1 - 808/.042071173 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Creative writing (Higher education) KW - United States KW - History N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy1002/2008050588.html ER -