The Program Era by Mark McGurl
Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
A study of how the rise of university creative writing programs since World War II has fundamentally reshaped American fiction. It traces how workshops, institutional logics, and prestige economies influenced styles, identities, and themes—from minimalism to maximalism and multiculturalism to autofiction—creating a paradox of standardized originality. Through readings of major postwar writers, it maps the mutually reinforcing relationship between higher education and literary production.
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- Published
- 2009
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 480 pages
- Original Language
- English
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