Daniel Grenier

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But in fact the psycho-dynamics of affiliation are even more complicated than this, because each of these institutions, the family and the school, are nested in and connected to others. As Henry James famously said in one of his Prefaces, “really, universally, relations stop nowhere,” and once we begin to inventory our affiliations it is difficult to know where or when we can legitimately cut the cord and pronounce ourselves autonomous. For instance, Hemingway may have been safe from the school, but as a figure who came of age in the 1920s, he like so many American writers of the time (and ...more
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
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