Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. From the Pound Era to the Program Era, and Beyond - Loren Glass
Part I: Antecedents
Chapter 1. The Creative Calling - Marija Reiff
Chapter 2. From Vagabond to Visiting Poet: Vachel Lindsay and the Institutionalization of American Poetry - Mike Chasar
Chapter 3. Institutional Itinerancy: Malcolm Cowley and the Domestication of Cosmopolitanism - Benjamin Kirbach
Part II: Revisions
Chapter 4. Modernism and the MFA - Greg Barnhisel
Chapter 5. Flannery O’Connor, the Cold War, and the Canon - Eric Bennett
Chapter 6. Alternative Degrees: “Works in OPEN” at Black Mountain College - Stephen Voyce
Chapter 7. Robert Coover, Hypertext, and the Technomodern Pedagogy of Fairy Tales - Kelly Budruweit
Chapter 8. What We Talk about When We Talk about Lish - Matthew Blackwell
Chapter 9. Timely Exile: James Alan McPherson, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Black Creativity - Michael Hill
Chapter 10. The Program Era and the Mainly White Room - Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young
Chapter 11. Humanities Fiction: A Genre - Simon During
Part III: Prospects
Chapter 12. “My Ghost Life”: Russell Banks and the Limits of Aesthetic Democracy - Sean McCann
Chapter 13. Getting Real: From Mass Modernism to Peripheral Realism - Donal Harris
Chapter 14. From Modernism to Metamodernism: Quantifying and Theorizing the Stages of the Program Era - Seth Abramson
Afterword. And Then What? - Mark McGurl
Contributors
Index