The Program Era

Name: The Program Era
ISBN: 9780674033191

okujjako Mark Mcgurl

3/5

(15 obululu)

Esoose kufulumizibwa: Aug 30, 2009
Abafulumya: Harvard University Press

"The Program Era" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor McGurl's book interview ran here as cover feature on September 7, 2009.

I hardly thought that bold, broadly accessible, culturally significant literary scholarship was being produced anymore, but Mark McGurl has proven me wrong with "The Program Era." Ranging widely through a variety of authors and their alma maters (most notably Iowa in the '50s and Stanford in the '60s), McGurl's book makes an excellent case that postwar American fiction has to be understood in its institutional -- that is, academic -- context, and his is the first discussion of MFA programs that really transcends the sterile pro-con debates on the subject.

The is a brilliant book that will change the way I teach about contemporary American fiction. It is a welcome corrective to the all-too-common knee jerk condemnation of all work related to creative writing programs.