The a survival skill Parks, Tim (Timothy Harold) 1954- creator text bibliography enk Oxford Oxford University Press 2015 monographic eng

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ix, 185 pages ; 20 cm. '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. 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 Tim Parks. Includes bibliographical references and index. Fiction History and criticism Fiction History and criticism Theory, etc Fiction Psychological aspects Books and reading Novela Historia y crítica Ciencia ficción Historia y crítica PN 3491 P252n 2015 809.3 9780198739593 (paperback) 0198739591 (paperback) 2015936769 AU@ 150323 20251020145934.0 126017 eng