The late-career novelist : career construction theory, authors and autofiction

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"--

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Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)
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Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Copyright: �2017

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General Note:	CatMonthString:january.22 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The critical self-awareness of the researcherThe potential for self-transformation by the subject; From social science to career construction: theorizing life portraits; Tim Lott's self-portrait of the other; Julian Barnes's self-portrait as other; Shusaku Endo's self-portrait by the other; Notes; 4 Intimate Paratexts; Triangulation and narratability; Triangulating the career of A.S. Byatt; Intimate paratexts; V.S. Naipaul's intimate paratext; The figural consciousness of the narrator; Ian McEwan's meta metafiction; Notes; 5 Cultural Narratives and the Collective Library.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.