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The Novel: A Survival Skill: A Survival Skill by Parks, Tim is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Novel: A Survival Skill: A Survival Skill about?
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, ishow increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognized as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is skeptically 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 greaterpressures: 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 intothe 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 wor
Who reads The Novel: A Survival Skill: A Survival Skill?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Parks, Tim
- Publisher
- United Kingdom : Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191060038
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction