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A Delicate Aggression: Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop
by Dowling, David Oakey
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. xi, 420 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "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 Robinso--David Dowling examines how the Iowa Writers' Workshop has shaped professional authorship, publishing industries, and the course of American literature." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- A Delicate Aggression: Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Author
- Dowling, David Oakey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0300215843
- ISBN 13
- 9780300215847
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- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2019
- Size
- 8vo
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- COLLECTIBLE
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