Cultivating the Classical Style: The Stanford-Denver Creative Writing Axis

Hutchison, Anthony

Abstract

Recent scholarship has done much to reveal the influence of the institutionalisation of creative writing on US literary culture in the post World War II. This article seeks to contribute to this emergent field by drawing attention to the distinct form this took in key institutional sites at Stanford University and the University of Denver between 1940 and 1960. This "Stanford-Denver axis" served to retrieve and develop a "classical style" of prose composition that influenced, among others, key figures of post-war US literary culture such as Evan Connell, John Williams, Gordon Lish and Raymond Carver.

Citation

Hutchison, A. (2020). Cultivating the Classical Style: The Stanford-Denver Creative Writing Axis. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 66(3), 474-498. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2020.0022

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 9, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Sep 16, 2020
• Publication Date: Sep 16, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jun 7, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 16, 2020
• Print ISSN: 1080-658X
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 474-498
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2020.0022
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2159715
• Publisher URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/764773