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Author McGurl, Mark, 1966-

Title The program era : postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing / Mark McGurl.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 466 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-455) and index.
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.
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Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Creative writing (Higher education) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Creative writing (Higher education)
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: McGurl, Mark, 1966- Program era. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 9780674033191 (DLC) 2008050588 (OCoLC)261174089
ISBN 9780674054240 (electronic book)
0674054245 (electronic book)
9780674033191 (alkaline paper)
0674033191 (alkaline paper)