Parks Tim (Professor Of Literature And Translation Professor Of Literature And Translation Iulm University Milan)
Parks Tim (Professor Of Literature And Translation Professor Of Literature And Translation Iulm University Milan) - The Novel A Survival Skill - Paperback
Parks Tim (Professor Of Literature And Translation Professor Of Literature And Translation Iulm University Milan) - The Novel A Survival Skill - Paperback
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Description: 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 sometimes rival claims of cultural history contextualized explanation or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the severe social attitudes that can follow from it; by technological change that may leave the traditional forms of serious human communication looking merely antiquated. For just these reasons this is the right time for renewal to start reinvigorated work into the meaning and value of literary reading. The Novel: A Survival Skill is the fruit of a lifetime's search for a different more immediate but again systematic and serious way of talking about literature. Developed over many years it offers a completely new account of the relationship between a writer his or her work and the reader. As such it radically undermines traditional literary criticism and the various criteria used for evaluating a work of fiction. Drawing on ideas from systemic psychology Tim Parks suggest 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 or simply habit of communication that the novelist has learned within his or her family of origin. The reader reacts to these in very much the same way he or she would react to the same communicative strategy in a real life encounter different readers reacting differently depending on their own backgrounds and habits of communication. Looking at the different value structures that can dominate in any family - - good/evil independence/dependence success/failure belonging/exclusion - - this book looks at how a number of major writers position themselves within these value structures how this positioning is manifest in their writing and how readers have responded to this depending on their own positioning in the same semantics. Thomas Hardy for example a man eager to believe himself courageous but terrified of the consequences of any socially 'unacceptable behaviour constructs stories which are courageous in their willingness to debate difficult issues but which constantly suggest that any attempt to behave courageously is condemned to disaster. Hardy as it were imprisons himself in a world where it is folly to take risks. He is thus exceedingly conservative in his life while at the same time able to think of himself as courageous in his writing. The Novel: A Survival Skill looks at the way different readers in different periods respond to this depending on their own position with regard to fear courage social convention and so on.
Title: The Novel A Survival Skill
Author(s): Parks Tim (Professor Of Literature And Translation Professor Of Literature And Translation Iulm University Milan)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198739593
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 9/16/2015
Series: The Literary Agenda
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Description: 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 sometimes rival claims of cultural history contextualized explanation or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the severe social attitudes that can follow from it; by technological change that may leave the traditional forms of serious human communication looking merely antiquated. For just these reasons this is the right time for renewal to start reinvigorated work into the meaning and value of literary reading. The Novel: A Survival Skill is the fruit of a lifetime's search for a different more immediate but again systematic and serious way of talking about literature. Developed over many years it offers a completely new account of the relationship between a writer his or her work and the reader. As such it radically undermines traditional literary criticism and the various criteria used for evaluating a work of fiction. Drawing on ideas from systemic psychology Tim Parks suggest 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 or simply habit of communication that the novelist has learned within his or her family of origin. The reader reacts to these in very much the same way he or she would react to the same communicative strategy in a real life encounter different readers reacting differently depending on their own backgrounds and habits of communication. Looking at the different value structures that can dominate in any family - - good/evil independence/dependence success/failure belonging/exclusion - - this book looks at how a number of major writers position themselves within these value structures how this positioning is manifest in their writing and how readers have responded to this depending on their own positioning in the same semantics. Thomas Hardy for example a man eager to believe himself courageous but terrified of the consequences of any socially 'unacceptable behaviour constructs stories which are courageous in their willingness to debate difficult issues but which constantly suggest that any attempt to behave courageously is condemned to disaster. Hardy as it were imprisons himself in a world where it is folly to take risks. He is thus exceedingly conservative in his life while at the same time able to think of himself as courageous in his writing. The Novel: A Survival Skill looks at the way different readers in different periods respond to this depending on their own position with regard to fear courage social convention and so on.
Title: The Novel A Survival Skill
Author(s): Parks Tim (Professor Of Literature And Translation Professor Of Literature And Translation Iulm University Milan)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198739593
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 9/16/2015
Series: The Literary Agenda
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
