The Late-Career Novelist
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The Late-Career Novelist

Career Construction Theory, Authors and Autofiction

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Late-Career Novelist

Career Construction Theory, Authors and Autofiction

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. 1 Introduction: From the Late to the Retrospective
  8. 2 The Dialogic Self and the Vocation of the Storyteller
  9. 3 Imaginary Authors of Real Books
  10. 4 Intimate Paratexts
  11. 5 Cultural Narratives and the Collective Library
  12. 6 Feeding Fiction Forward: Anxieties of Influence
  13. 7 Autofiction in Theory and Practice
  14. 8 Conclusion: Advancing the Occupational Plot
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index

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