Parks, Tim  1954- <br/><br/>
The novel :  a survival skill / 
Tim Parks. 
 - Oxford :  Oxford University Press,  2015. 
 - ix, 185 pages ;  20 cm. 
 - The literary agenda .
 - Literary agenda  .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Four Imagined Meetings<br/>2. Schismogenesis and Semantic Polarities<br/>3. Joyce: A Winner Looking to Lose<br/>4. Good Boy, Bad Boy<br/>5. The Reader's Address<br/>6. Terrifying Bliss<br/>7. Worthy Writers, Worthy Readers 
<br/><br/> '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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780198739593 (paperback) 0198739591 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015936769 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.<br/>Fiction--Psychological aspects.<br/>Books and reading.<br/>Novela--Historia y crítica <br/>Ciencia ficción--Historia y crítica 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 3491  / P252n 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.3