The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing - Brossura

McGurl, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0674062094 ISBN 13: 9780674062092

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the university has reorganized American literature and—even more important—how the increasing intimacy of writing and schooling can be brought to bear on a reading of this literature.

McGurl argues that far from occasioning a decline in the quality or interest of American writing, the rise of the creative writing program 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.

Through transformative readings of these and many other writers, The Program Era becomes a meditation on systematic creativity—an idea that until recently would have seemed a contradiction in terms, but which in our time has become central to cultural production both within and beyond the university.

An engaging and stylishly written examination of an era we thought we knew, The Program Era will be at the center of debates about postwar literature and culture for years to come.

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Recensione:

[There's] much food for thought in what [McGurl] has to say about literary trends. Most, interesting, though, is his sensitive exploration of the interplay between individual writers and the Creative Writing programs...Opinionated and lively...He delivers a cornucopia of exciting new ideas and insights in a work which will be indispensable reading for teachers and students of creative writing, and for anyone interested in modern fiction...[A] complex, energetic and fascinating book. --Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Irish Times, 18 April 2009

"The secret Mark McGurl discloses is the degree to which the richness of postwar American culture...is the product of the university system, and worse than that, of the creative writing programme as an institutional and institutionalised part of that system." --Frederic Jameson, London Review of Books, Thursday 22 November 2012

L'autore:

Mark McGurl is a Professor of English at Stanford University.

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0674062094
• ISBN 13: 9780674062092
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 466