Contents

• Introduction: halls of mirror
• Autobardolatry: modernist fiction, progressive education, "creative writing"
• Understanding Iowa: the religion of institutionalization - - The social construction of unreality: creative writing in the open system
• Our phonocentrism: finding the voice of the (minority) storyteller
• The hidden injuries of craft: mass higher education and lower-middle-class modernism
• Art and alma mater: the family, the nation, and the primal scene of instruction
• Miniature America: or, the program in transplanetary perspective
• Afterword : systematic excellence