The late-career novelist : career construction theory, authors and autofiction / Hywel Dix.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dix, Hywel Rowland, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Authorship--History--20th century.

Authorship.

Authorship--History--21st century.

Authorship--Psychological aspects.

Literature publishing--History--20th century.

Literature publishing.

Literature publishing--History--21st century.

Career development.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

216 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350030060

1350030066

OCLC:

961008166