The program era : postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing / / Mark McGurl.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 466 p. :; ill. |
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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.