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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2017.
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| Colección: | Scientific studies of religion (Bloomsbury (Firm))
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: From the Late to the Retrospective; Rethinking lateness, the belated and the retrospective; Rethinking the literary career; A narrative process; Meta-consciousness and Meta-reflection; Micro-narratives and career stages; Life themes; Career construction and/.as theories of authorship; Notes; 2 The Dialogic Self and the Vocation of the Storyteller; The dialogical self; Before reading; Graham Swift's authorial self; Notes; 3 Imaginary Authors of Real Books; On portraiture as art and science.
- 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.
- Cultural narratives and/.as forms of intertextThe collective library; Cultural narrative in Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie; A.S. Byatt's return of the repressed; Notes; 6 Feeding Fiction Forward: Anxieties of Influence; Harold Bloom's poetic self; Subject identity formation in an authorial career; From daemonization to the return of the dead; The retrospective ratio; Notes; 7 Autofiction in Theory and Practice; Origin, development and definitions; Connections between autofiction and fictions of self-retrospect; Provisional observations; Notes; 8 Conclusion: Advancing the Occupational Plot.
- Extending the occupational plotLimitations and potential extensions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.