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Workshops of empire : Stegner, Engle, and American creative writing during the Cold War /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bennett, Eric, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2015]
Series:New American canon.
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Cold War in literature.
Creative writing.
Stegner, Wallace, > 1909-1993 > Criticism and interpretation.
Engle, Paul, > 1908-1991 > Criticism and interpretation.
Engle, Paul, > 1908-1991.
Stegner, Wallace, > 1909-1993.
American literature.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • The new humanism
  • Liberalism and literature after the war
  • The Rockefeller foundation and postwar internationalism
  • Paul Engle: the creative writing cold warrior
  • Wallace Stegner: the tragic centrist
  • Canonical bedfellows: Ernest Hemingway and Henry James.