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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826086103321

Autore

Parks Tim

Titolo

The novel : a survival skill / / Tim Parks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-19-106003-8

0-19-106002-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Literary agenda

Disciplina

809.3

Soggetti

Authorship

Creative writing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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