TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parks,Tim
TI  - The novel: a survival skill 
T2  - The literary agenda
SN  - 9780198739593 (paperback)
AV  - PN 3491 P252n 2015
U1  - 809.3 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Novela
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Ciencia ficción
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - '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
ER  -