El. knyga: The Late-Career Novelist: Career Construction Theory, Authors and Autofiction

"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"--

Critics have devoted much attention to establishing the idea of a major phase in an author's career as a transition between early and mature work, says Dix, but have had little to say about the late stage, after the major phase. He also notes that the concept of the late stage has not been well defined and is in need of rigorous critical interrogation and provisional clarification. He takes up the two problems, focusing on contemporary novelists where the idea of a late stage in a living writer makes some critics uncomfortable. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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.