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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
'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....
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Delightful... elegant prose and discussions that span the history of 2,000 years of literature." A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distraction, entertainment, and an opportunity to unwind or focus. But it can also be something more powerful-a way to learn about how to live. Read at the right moment in your life, a novel can-quite literally-change it. The Novel Cure is a reminder of that power. To create this...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present...
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