The program era
Subtitle: postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing
By: Mark McGurl.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780674033191
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Creative writing (Higher education) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: McGurl argues that far from occasioning a decline in the quality or interest in American writing, the rise of the creative writing program [in higher education] has instead generated a complex and evolving constellation of aesthetic problems that have been explored with energy and at times brilliance by authors ranging from Flannery O'Connor to Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, and Toni Morrison.--From book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.