McGurl, Mark,  1966- <br/><br/>
The program era :  postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing / 
Mark McGurl. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Harvard University Press,  2009. 
 - xiv, 466 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-455) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674033191 (alk. paper) 0674033191 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008050588 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA930412  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014937443  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Creative writing (Higher education)--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS379  / .M344 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808/.042071173