The Program Era
Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
Published on 30. August 2009
480 pages
978-0-674-05424-0 (ISBN)
Description
McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. The Program Era will be at the center of debates about postwar literature and culture for years to come.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-05424-0 (9780674054240)
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Person
Mark McGurl is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
Introduction: Halls of Mirror 1 PART ONE: "Write What You Know"/"Show Don't Tell" (1890-1960) 1 Autobardolatry: Modernist Fiction, Progressive Education, "Creative Writing" 77 2 Understanding Iowa: The Religion of Institutionalization 127 PART TWO: "Find Your Voice" (1960-1975) 3 The Social Construction of Unreality: Creative Writing in the Open System 183 4 Our Phonocentrism: Finding the Voice of the (Minority) Storyteller 227 PART THREE: Creative Writing at Large (1975-2008) 5 The Hidden Injuries of Craft: Mass Higher Education and Lower-Middle-Class Modernism 273 6 Art and Alma Mater: The Family, the Nation, and the Primal Scene of Instruction 321 7 Miniature America; or, The Program in Transplanetary Perspective 361 Afterword: Systematic Excellence 399
