02254cam a22004215i 4500 126017 BJBSDDR 20251020145934.0 ta 150323s2015 enk b 001 0 eng d 2015936769 9780198739593 (paperback) 0198739591 (paperback) 18538064 (OCoLC)ocn915513811 AU@ eng AU@ rda OCLCO NYP OCLCO BTCTA BDX YDXCP CDX LTSCA DLC eng lccopycat PN 3491 P252n 2015 809.3 Parks, Tim (Timothy Harold), 1954- 11748 The novel : a survival skill / Tim Parks. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015. ix, 185 pages ; 20 cm. The literary agenda 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. Fiction History and criticism. Fiction History and criticism Theory, etc. Fiction Psychological aspects. Books and reading. Novela Historia y crítica 4146 Ciencia ficción Historia y crítica 3083 Literary agenda 32469 lcc BK dvf 78460 78460 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 PN 3491 P252n 2015 00000119021 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK