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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellamy, Joe David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bellamy, Joe David.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Authorship.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States.

Intellectual life.

Bellamy, Joe David--Authorship.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1995.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826210295

OCLC:

32664719