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The novel : a survival skill /
'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...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Sprog: | English |
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UK:
OUP,
2015.
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| Udgivelse: | First edition. |
| Serier: | Literary agenda.
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| Summary: | '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. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | ix, 185 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198739593 (paperback) 0198739591 (paperback) |