The novel :
Parks, Tim,
The novel : a survival skill / Tim Parks. - First edition. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015. - ix, 185 pages ; 20 cm. - Literary agenda. . - The literary agenda . - 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.
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 survival that the novelist has developed in response 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.
9780198739593 (paperback) 0198739591 (paperback)
Fiction
Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Fiction -- Psychological aspects. Books and reading.
English novel--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Psychological aspects.
809.3 / PAR
The novel : a survival skill / Tim Parks. - First edition. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015. - ix, 185 pages ; 20 cm. - Literary agenda. . - The literary agenda . - 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.
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 survival that the novelist has developed in response 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.
9780198739593 (paperback) 0198739591 (paperback)
Fiction
Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Fiction -- Psychological aspects. Books and reading.
English novel--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Psychological aspects.
809.3 / PAR