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Literary luxuries : American writing at the end of the millennium /
From the Iowa Writers Workshop to the halls of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts, from the world of literary magazines and writers' conferences to the bizarre realm of the late-twentieth-century American English department, Literary Luxuries takes the reader on a guided tour of A...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Literary luxuries: Literary luxuries : of pens and swords
- Literary occasions: The magazine wars
- The bread loaf experience
- A star in the wilderness : six years at Saranac Lake
- Literary meteorology: Superfiction : fiction in an age of excess
- Lifestyle fiction : a downpour of literary republicanism
- Muscular fiction : a postscript
- Literary education: The theory of creative writing I : keeping the frog alive
- The theory of creative writing II : the uses of the imagination and the revenge of the pink typewriter
- The Iowa mystique and those who loathe it
- Finding one's true voice
- Literary satirists: T. Coraghessan Boyle and the renaissance of the short story
- Tom Wolfe as visiting martian
- Kurt Vonnegut for president : the making of a literary reputation
- Literary vices: The autobiographical trap
- Still arguing about moral fiction
- Five sex acts and wild thing : John Frohnmayer's last days at the NEA, and mine
- Contemporaries: Max Apple, Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, John Casey, Don DeLillo, Frederick Exley, John Gardner, Beverly Lowry, Mailer/Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, George Plimpton, Ishmael Reed, Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield, Paul West.