02158cam a22003855i 4500001000700000003000800007005001700015007000300032008004100035010001700076020003000093020002700123035001300150035002400163040007800187041000800265042001400273050002400287082001000311100004200321245004800363260004600411300002800457490002400485504005100509505020600560520076200766650003601528650004901564650003601613650002301649650003401672650004501706830002101751126017BJBSDDR20251020145934.0ta150323s2015    enk      b    001 0 eng d  a  2015936769  a9780198739593 (paperback)  a0198739591 (paperback)  a18538064  a(OCoLC)ocn915513811  aAU@bengcAU@erdadOCLCOdNYPdOCLCOdBTCTAdBDXdYDXCPdCDXdLTSCAdDLC  aeng  alccopycat14aPN 3491bP252n 201500a809.31 aParks, Timq(Timothy Harold), d1954-14aThe novel :ba survival skill /cTim Parks.  aOxford :bOxford University Press,c2015.  aix, 185 pages ;c20 cm.0 aThe literary agenda  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 a1. 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  a'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. 0aFictionxHistory and criticism. 0aFictionxHistory and criticismxTheory, etc. 0aFictionxPsychological aspects. 0aBooks and reading. 4aNovelaxHistoria y crítica  0aCiencia ficciónxHistoria y crítica  0aLiterary agenda