The novel : a survival skill / Tim Parks.
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- 9780198739593 (paperback)
- 0198739591 (paperback)
- 809.3 23 PAR
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809.04 DAS Twentieth Century Literary Criticism / | 809.300 AGA Feminism beyond conventions : New Paradigms of Feminist Fiction in 21st Century/ | 809.3 BOD The novel : | 809.3 PAR The novel : | 809.38109409034 HAM The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe : | 809.387 VIN Science fiction and cultural theory : | 809.38762 Science Fiction : |
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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