Format:
1 Online-Ressource (448 p)
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16 b-w illus
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780300245004
Content:
A vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers' Workshop and its celebrated alumni and faculty As the world's preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers' Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include twenty-eight Pulitzer Prize winners, six U.S. poet laureates, and numerous National Book Award winners. This volume follows the program from its rise to prominence in the early 1940s under director Paul Engle, who promoted the "workshop" method of classroom peer criticism. Meant to simulate the rigors of editorial and critical scrutiny in the publishing industry, this educational style created an environment of both competition and community, cooperation and rivalry. Focusing on some of the exceptional authors who have participated in the program-such as Flannery O'Connor, Dylan Thomas, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Smiley, Sandra Cisneros, T. C. Boyle, and Marilynne Robinson-David Dowling examines how the Iowa Writers' Workshop has shaped professional authorship, publishing industries, and the course of American literature
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Part 1. Cold Warriors: Writing in the Engle Era (1941-1966) -- 1. The Brilliant Misfit / O'Connor, Flannery -- 2. The Star / Snodgrass, W. D. -- 3. The Suicide / Shelley, Robert -- 4. The Professional / Cassill, R. V. -- 5. The Guru / Young, Marguerite -- 6. The Turncoat / Lowell, Robert -- 7. Mad Poets / Thomas, Dylan / Berryman, John -- Part 2. The Workshop in the Age of Aquarius (1960s-1970s) -- 8. Celebrity Faculty / Vonnegut, Kurt / Irving, John -- 9. Infidels / Cisneros, Sandra / Harjo, Joy -- 10. The Crossover / Dove, Rita -- 11. The Genius / Smiley, Jane -- 12. Red High- Tops for Life / Boyle, T. C. -- Part 3. The Frank Conroy Era and Beyond(1980-Present) -- 13. The Mystic / Robinson, Marilynne -- 14. The Warrior / Swofford, Anthony -- 15. The Voice / Mathis, Ayana -- Epilogue. No Monument: Engle's Legacy and the Workshop's Future -- Notes -- Index
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restricted access online access with authorization star
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300215847
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780300215847
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300245004
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
