The Novel: A Survival Skill

by Tim Parks

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 unrecognized as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is skeptically challenged from within, for example, by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198739591
• ISBN13: 9780198739593
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"