The program era: postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing

* Preface * Introduction: Halls of Mirror * Part 1: Write What You Know/Show Don't Tell (1890--1960) *1. Autobardolatry: Modernist Fiction, Progressive Education, *2. Understanding Iowa: The Religion of Institutionalization * Part 2: Find Your (1960--1975) *3. The Social Construction of Unreality: Creative Writing in the Open System *4. Our Phonocentrism: Finding the Voice of the (Minority) Storyteller * Part 3: Creative Writing at Large (1975--2008) *5. The Hidden Injuries of Craft: Mass Higher Education and Lower-Middle-Class Modernism *6. Art and Alma Mater: The Family, the Nation, and the Primal Scene of Instruction *7. Miniature America or, The Program in Transplanetary Perspective * Afterword: Systematic Excellence * Notes * Index