Mark McGurl is an American literary critic specializing in 20th-century
American literature. He is the Albert L. Guérard Professor of Literature at
Stanford University
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.
Background
McGurl received his B.A. from
Harvard University
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and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from
Johns Hopkins University
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. He has also worked as a journalist for ''
The New York Times
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'' and ''
The New York Review of Books
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.'' In 2011, McGurl received the
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for ''The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing''.
Publications
Books
*''The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after
Henry James'' (
Princeton University Press
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The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial ...
, 2001)
*''The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of
Creative Writing'' (
Harvard University Press
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The pres ...
, 2009)
*''Everything & Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon'' (
Verso Books, 2021)
''Everything & Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon''
from Verso Books
Articles and essays
Ordinary Doom: Literary Studies in the Waste Land of the Present
" New Literary History," Fall 2010
A Response to Elif Batuman's Review of ''The Program Era'' in the ''London Review of Books''
''Official Website: The Program Era Reviews,'' October 1/October 10, 2010
The Zombie Renaissance
" n+1 no.9 spring 2010
Understanding Iowa: Flannery O'Connor B.A., M.F.A.
'' American Literary History,'' Summer 2007
Learning from Little Tree: The Political Education of the Counterculture
'' Yale Journal of Criticism,'' Fall 2005
The Program Era: Pluralisms of Postwar American Fiction
'' Critical Inquiry,'' Fall 2005
Social Geometries: Taking Place in Henry James
'' Representations'' 68, Autumn 1999, 59-83
Making 'Literature' of It:Hammett and High Culture
'' American Literary History,'' 9.4, Winter 1997, 702-717
Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in King Kong
'' Critical Inquiry,'' Spring 1996
Notes
External links
Official Website
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American literary critics
Literary critics of English
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Harvard University alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Stanford University Department of English faculty