McGurl, Mark, 1966-
The program era : postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing / Mark McGurl. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. - xiv, 466 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780674033191 (alk. paper) 0674033191 (alk. paper)
2008050588
GBA930412 bnb
014937443 Uk
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Creative writing (Higher education)--History--United States--20th century.
PS379 / .M344 2009
808.042071173 / MCP
The program era : postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing / Mark McGurl. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. - xiv, 466 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780674033191 (alk. paper) 0674033191 (alk. paper)
2008050588
GBA930412 bnb
014937443 Uk
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Creative writing (Higher education)--History--United States--20th century.
PS379 / .M344 2009
808.042071173 / MCP