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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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Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Parks, Tim
Format: Printed Book
Sprog:English
Udgivet: UK: OUP, 2015.
Udgivelse:First edition.
Serier:Literary agenda.
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Beskrivelse
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.
Fysisk beskrivelse:ix, 185 pages ; 20 cm.
Bibliografi:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780198739593 (paperback)
0198739591 (paperback)