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Workshops of Empire - Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War (Paperback)
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Workshops of Empire - Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War (Paperback)
Series: The New American Canon
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During and just after World War II, an influential group of
American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for
literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays,
and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against
simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of
global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening
again. As the Cold War began, highminded and wellintentioned
scholars, critics, and writers from across the political spectrum
argued that human values remained crucial to civilization and that
such values stood in dire need of formulation and affirmation. They
believed that the complexity of literature-of ideas bound to
concrete images, of ideologies leavened with experiences-enshrined
such values as no other medium could. Creative writing emerged as a
graduate discipline in the United States amid this astonishing
swirl of grand conceptions. The early workshops were formed not
only at the time of, but in the image of, and under the tremendous
urgency of, the postwar imperatives for the humanities. Vivid
renderings of personal experience would preserve the liberal
democratic soul-a soul menaced by the gathering leftwing
totalitarianism of the USSR and the memory of fascism in Italy and
Germany. Workshops of Empire explores this history via the careers
of Paul Engle at the University of Iowa and Wallace Stegner at
Stanford. In the story of these founding fathers of the discipline,
Eric Bennett discovers the cultural, political, literary,
intellectual, and institutional underpinnings of creative writing
programs within the university. He shows how the model of literary
technique championed by the first writing programs-a model that
values the interior and private life of the individual, whose
experiences are not determined by any community, ideology, or
political system-was born out of this Cold War context and
continues to influence the way creative writing is taught, studied,
read, and written into the twentyfirst century.
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