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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.
- Iowa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers' Workshop and its celebrated alumni and faculty 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 Robinson-David Dowling examines how the Iowa Writers' Workshop has shaped professional authorship, publishing industries, and the course of American literature.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline
- Introduction
- 1. The Brilliant Misfit
- 2. The Star
- 3. The Suicide
- 4. The Professional
- 5. The Guru
- 6. The Turncoat
- 7. Mad Poets
- 8. Celebrity Faculty
- 9. Infidels
- 10. The Crossover
- 11. The Genius
- 12. Red High- Tops for Life
- 13. The Mystic
- 14. The Warrior
- 15. The Voice
- Epilogue. No Monument: Engle's Legacy and the Workshop's Future
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-402) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-24500-9
- OCLC:
- 1089126057
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