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A Delicate Aggression
David O. Dowling
其他書名
Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop
出版Yale University Press, 2019-03-26
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching
ISBN03002450099780300245004
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Uw-LDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.