The program era postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing / [electronic resource] :
Mark McGurl.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- xiv, 466 p. : ill.
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.
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American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Creative writing (Higher education)--History--United States--20th century.