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The novel a survival skill / Tim Parks.
| Author/creator | Parks, Tim |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press, 2015. |
| Description | ix, 185 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | The literary agenda Literary agenda. ^A1257520 |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: 1.Four Imagined Meetings -- 2.Schismogenesis and Semantic Polarities -- 3.Joyce: A Winner Looking to Lose -- 4.Good Boy, Bad Boy -- 5.The Reader's Address -- 6.Terrifying Bliss -- 7.Worthy Writers, Worthy Readers. |
| Abstract | 'The novel: a survival skill' offers a completely new account of the relationship between writer, text, and reader. Drawing on ideas from systemic psychology and positioning theory, Parks suggests that both the content and style of a novelist's work, the kind of stories told, and the way in which they are told, form part of a more general strategy of suvival that the novelist has developed in reaponse to tensions within his or her family of origin. Radically undermining traditional lit-crit criteria, and deconstructing the pieties with which the novel is usually defended, Parks gives a novelist's own insider account of what may be best understood as the biography of the act of writing itself and its relation to the lives with which it is entwined. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015936769 |
| ISBN | 9780198739593 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0198739591 (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |