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BL
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960023
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b714393
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McGurl, Mark,1966-
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| Title & Author
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The program era : : postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing /\ Mark McGurl.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Harvard University Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xiv, 466 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0674054245
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: 9780674054240
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0674033191
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9780674033191
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-455) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| 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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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Creative writing (Higher education)-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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American fiction.
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Creative writing (Higher education)
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Composition Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Rhetoric.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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REFERENCE-- Writing Skills.
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Roman.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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808/.042071173
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PS379.M344 2009eb
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