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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Contents |
Charles Dickens -- Feodor Dostoevsky : crime or punishment -- Thomas Hardy -- Anton Chekhov -- James Joyce -- Samuel Beckett -- Georges Simenon -- Muriel Spark -- Philip Roth -- J.M. Coetzee -- Julian Barnes -- Colm Tóibín -- Geoff Dyer -- Peter Stamm -- Graham Swift -- Dave Eggers -- Haruki Murakami -- Peter Matthiessen -- Stieg Larsson -- E.L. James. |
| Summary |
Novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author's life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns that guide authors in both their writing and their lives. In a series of essays written over the past decade and collected for the first time here, he reveals how style and content in a novel reflect a whole pattern of communication and positioning in the author's ordinary and daily behavior. We see how life and work are deeply enmeshed in the work of writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, Feodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Philip Roth, Julian Barnes, Peter Stamm, and Geoff Dyer, among others. Parks further shows us how readers' reactions to these writers and their works are inevitably connected to these communicative patterns, establishing a relationship that goes far beyond aesthetic appreciation. This collection takes us into the psychology of some of our greatest writers and challenges us to see with more clarity how our lives become entangled with theirs through our reading of their novels. |
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Parks, Tim 1954-
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Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Fiction -- Technique.
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Authors and readers.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Authors and readers. (OCoLC)fst00821738
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Fiction -- Technique. (OCoLC)fst00923755
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Essays.
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| ISBN |
9780300216738 (electronic bk.) |
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0300216734 (electronic bk.) |
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