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Tim Parks

The Novel

A Survival Skill

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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 sometimesrival 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 th… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-106003-8
  • EAN: 9780191060038
  • Produktnummer: 19557752
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 255 KB

Über den Autor


Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks studied at Cambridge and Harvard before moving permanently to Italy in 1981. Author of three bestselling books on Italy, and fifteen novels, including the Booker short-listed Europa, and most recently Painting Death, he has translated works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Machiavelli, and Leopardi. While running a post-graduate degree course in translation at IULM University, Milan, he writes regularly for the LRBand the NYRB. His non-fiction works include, Translating Style, A Literary Approach to Translation Problems, Medici Money, an account of the relation between banking, the Church and art in the 15th century, and four accounts of life in contemporary Italy, Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education, A Season with Veronaand Italian Ways, on and off the rails from Milan to Palermo.

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