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After the program era : the past, present, and future of creative writing in the university / edited by Loren Glass.

by Glass, Loren, editor.

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2016

New American canon.

277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Introduction : From the pound era to the program era, and beyond / Loren Glass -- The creative calling / Marija Reiff -- From vagabond to visiting poet : Vachel Lindsay and the institutionalization of American poetry / Mike Chasar -- Institutional itinerancy : Malcolm Cowley and the domestication of cosmopolitanism / Benjamin Kirbach -- Modernism and the MFA / Greg Barnhisel -- Flannery O'Connor, the Cold War, and the Canon / Eric Bennett -- Alternative degrees : "works in OPEN" at Black Mountain College / Stephen Voyce -- Robert Coover, hypertext, and the technomodern pedagogy of fairy tales / Kelly Budruweit -- What we talk about when we talk about Lish / Matthew Blackwell -- Timely exile : James Alan McPherson, the Iowa writers' workshop, and black creativity / Michael Hill -- The program era and the mainly white room / Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young -- Humanities fiction : a genre / Simon During -- "My ghost life" : Russell Banks and the limits of aesthetic democracy / Sean McCann -- Getting real : from mass modernism to peripheral realism / Donal Harris -- From modernism to metamodernism : quantifying and theorizing the stages of the program era / Seth Abramson -- Afterword : And then what? / Mark McGurl.

"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 of the periodizing terminology we had previously used to structure our understanding of twentieth-century literature. After the Program Era explores the consequences and implications, as well as the lacunae and liabilities, of McGurl's foundational intervention. Glass focuses only on American fiction and the traditional MFA program, and this collection aims to expand and examine its insights in terms of other genres and sites. Postwar poetry, in particular, has until now been neglected as a product of the Program Era, even though it is, arguably, a "purer" example, since poets now depend almost entirely on the patronage of the university. Similarly, this collection looks beyond the traditional MFA writing program to explore the pre-history of writing programs in American universities, as well as alternatives to the traditionally structured program that have emerged along the way. Taken together, the essays in After the Program Era seek to answer and explore many of these questions and continue the conversations McGurl only began. CONTRIBUTORS Seth Abramson, Greg Barnhisel, Eric Bennett, Matthew Blackwell, Kelly Budruweit, Mike Chasar, Simon During, Donal Harris, Michael Hill, Benjamin Kirbach, Sean McCann, Mark McGurl, Marija Reiff, Juliana Spahr, Stephen Voyce, Stephanie Young"

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