Publication

1995 - University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Mo, United States

Language

English

Word Count

57,500 words, Guess

Page Count

230 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC818.5409
  • LCCPS379 .B424 1995

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Literary luxuries: American writingat the end of the millenniumUniversity of Missouri Press1995-01-01

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