| Description |
xiv, 466 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Creative writing (Higher education) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
9780674033191 (alk. paper) |
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0674033191 (alk. paper) |
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