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The late-career novelist : career construction theory, authors and autofiction
- Title
- The late-career novelist : career construction theory, authors and autofiction / Hywel Dix.
- Author
- Dix, Hywel Rowland
- Publication
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- 216 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The first scholarly study of the phenomenon of the 'late-career novel', this book explores the ways in which bestselling contemporary novelists look back and respond to their earlier successes in their subsequent writings. Exploring the work of major novelists such as Angela Carter, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt and Graham Swift, The Late Career Novelist draws for the first time on social psychology and career construction theory to examine how the dynamics of a literary career play out in the fictional worlds of our best-known novelists. From here, Hywel Dix develops and argues for a new mode of reading contemporary writing on the contexts of current literary culture"--
- Subjects
- English fiction
- Literature publishing
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory
- Authorship > Psychological aspects
- Literature publishing > History > 21st century
- 1900-2099
- Authorship > History > 20th century
- English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
- History
- Career development
- LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading
- Literature publishing > History > 20th century
- Authorship > History > 21st century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: From the Late to the Retrospective -- 2. Life Themes and Life Stories: Career Construction and the Re-writing of the Authorial Self -- 3. Imaginary Authors of Real Books -- 4. Intimate Paratexts -- 5. Cultural Narratives and The Collective Library -- 6. Feeding Fiction Forward: Anxieties of Influence -- 7. Autofiction in Theory and Practice -- 8. Conclusion: Advancing the Occupational Plot -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-8611
- ISBN
- 9781350030060
- 1350030066
- LCCN
- 2016055074
- OCLC
- 961008166
- Author
- Dix, Hywel Rowland, author.
- Title
- The late-career novelist : career construction theory, authors and autofiction / Hywel Dix.
- Publisher
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-8611