The program era : postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing - McGurl, Mark, 1966- (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-455) and index.
Keywords: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Creative writing (Higher education) -- United States -- History -- 20th century