The novel : a survival skill / Tim Parks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parks, Tim, author.

Series:

Literary agenda.

Literary agenda

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

Creative writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimesrival claims of cultural history, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by ec

Contents:

Cover; The Novel: A Survival Skill; Copyright; Series Introduction to the Literary Agenda; Foreword; Acknowledgement; Contents; 1: Four Imagined Meetings; Notes; 2: Schismogenesis and Semantic Polarities; Notes; 3: Joyce; Notes; 4: Good Boy, Bad Boy; Notes; 5: The Reader's Address; Notes; 6: Terrifying Bliss; Notes; 7: Worthy Writers, Worthy Readers; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-106003-8

0-19-106002-X

OCLC:

913086369