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After the Program Era: The Past, Present, and Future of Creative Writing in the University
Loren Glass (Ed.)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Glass, Loren. Series: The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 274 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSB; JNMN; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
The publication in 2009 of Mark McGurl’s The Program Era provoked a sea change in the study of postwar literature. Even though almost every English department in the United States housed some version of a creative writing program by the time of its publication, literary scholars had not previously considered that this institutional phenomenon was historically significant. McGurl’s groundbreaking book effectively established that “the rise of the creative writing program stands as the most important event in postwar American literary history,” forcing us to revise our understanding not only of the relationship between higher education and literary production, but also ... Read more
The publication in 2009 of Mark McGurl’s The Program Era provoked a sea change in the study of postwar literature. Even though almost every English department in the United States housed some version of a creative writing program by the time of its publication, literary scholars had not previously considered that this institutional phenomenon was historically significant. McGurl’s groundbreaking book effectively established that “the rise of the creative writing program stands as the most important event in postwar American literary history,” forcing us to revise our understanding not only of the relationship between higher education and literary production, but also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Series
The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609384395
SKU
V9781609384395
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About Loren Glass (Ed.)
Loren Glass is a professor of English at the University of Iowa, with a joint appointment at the Center for the Book. He is the author of Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880–1980 and Counter-Culture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
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