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A delicate aggression : savagery and survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop / David O. Dowling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dowling, David Oakey, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iowa Writers' Workshop.
- Creative writing (Higher education)--Iowa--History--20th century.
- Creative writing (Higher education).
- Authorship--Study and teaching.
- Authorship.
- History.
- Iowa.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 420 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019].
- Contents:
- Part I Cold Warriors: Writing in the Engle Era (1941-1966)
- Students
- 1 The Brilliant Misfit p. 29 / Flannery O'Connor
- 2 The Star p. 50 / W. D. Snodgrass
- 3 The Suicide p. 67 / Robert Shelley
- Faculty and Visitors
- 4 The Professional p. 89 / R. V. Cassill
- 5 The Guru p. 106 / Marguerite Young
- 6 The Turncoat p. 123 / Robert Lowell
- 7 Mad Poets p. 144 / Dylan Thomas and John Berryman
- Part 2 The Workshop in the Age of Aquarius (1960s-1970s)
- 8 Celebrity Faculty p. 165 / Kurt Vonnegut and John Irving
- 9 Infidels p. 188 / Sandra Cisneros and Joy Harjo
- 10 The Crossover p. 208 / Rita Dove
- 11 The Genius p. 228 / Jane Smiley
- 12 Red High-Tops for Life p. 249 / T. C. Boyle
- Part 3 The Frank Conroy Era and Beyond (1980s - Present)
- 13 The Mystic p. 271 / Marilynne Robinson
- 14 The Warrior p. 290 / Anthony Swofford
- 15 The Voice p. 306 / Ayana Mathis and Mass Culture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300215843
- 9780300215847
- OCLC:
- 1048942161
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