postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing /
First Statement of Responsibility
Mark McGurl.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge, Mass. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Harvard University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiv, 466 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-455) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Mark McGurl explores the connections between fiction and higher education in the United States by demonstrating how much literature comes to us mediated by writing programs.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctvjnttfx
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Program era.
International Standard Book Number
9780674033191
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Creative writing (Higher education)-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
American fiction.
Creative writing (Higher education)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Composition & Creative Writing.