The program era postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing /

Main Author: McGurl, Mark, 1966-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10402515
Table of 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.