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Literary luxuries : American writing at the end of the millennium / Joe David Bellamy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (x, 230 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0826260063
  • 9780826260062
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Literary luxuries.DDC classification:
  • 813/.5409 20
LOC classification:
  • PS379 .B424 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Summary: 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 American literary life in our time - and the forces threatening its existence. Joe David Bellamy has been a significant figure on the literary scene during the last three decades; as a "literary Everyman," he offers in Literary Luxuries a distinctive and valuable perspective on the culture wars, on education and the imagination, on particular writers and major literary and aesthetic movements, on the role of government in fostering cultural development, and on the day-to-day strife of the writer's life in the United States.
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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.

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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 American literary life in our time - and the forces threatening its existence. Joe David Bellamy has been a significant figure on the literary scene during the last three decades; as a "literary Everyman," he offers in Literary Luxuries a distinctive and valuable perspective on the culture wars, on education and the imagination, on particular writers and major literary and aesthetic movements, on the role of government in fostering cultural development, and on the day-to-day strife of the writer's life in the United States.

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