The novel : a survival skill / Tim Parks.

By:

Parks, Tim (Timothy Harold), 1954-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: The literary agenda | Literary agendaPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.Description: ix, 185 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9780198739593 (paperback)
0198739591 (paperback)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

809.3

LOC classification:

PN 3491 P252n 2015

Contents:

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

Summary: '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.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 3491 P252n 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000119021

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

'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.

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