Novel
A Survival Skill - The Literary Agenda
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Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivenovelsurvivalski0000park
- ISBN-139780198739593
- ISBN-100198739591
- OCLC Control Number915513811
- Better World Books9780198739593
and 2 more
- Better World BooksKS-313-370
- Open LibraryOL28567285M
Classifications
- LCCPN3491
- LCCPN3355 .P37 2015
Description
'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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