TY - BOOK AU - McGurl,Mark ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The program era: postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing 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 KW - Electronic books 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3300851 ER -