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Craft Class: The Writing Workshop in American Culture
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The hidden history of the creative writing workshop and the socioeconomic consequences of the craft labor metaphor.
In a letter dated September 1, 1912, drama professor George Pierce Baker recommended the term "workshop" for an experimental course in playwriting he had been planning with former students at Harvard and Radcliffe. This was the first time that term, now ubiquitous, was used in the context of creative writing pedagogy. Today, the MFA (master of fine arts) industry is a booming o...
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