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1 online resource (216 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Scientific studies of religion : inquiry and explanation
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Scientific studies of religion (Bloomsbury (Firm))
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| 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Extending the occupational plotLimitations and potential extensions; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Authorship -- History -- 20th century.
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Authorship. |
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History. |
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Authorship -- History -- 21st century.
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Authorship -- Psychological aspects.
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Authorship -- Psychological aspects. |
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Literature publishing -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature publishing. |
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Literature publishing -- History -- 21st century.
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Career development.
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Literary studies: from c 1900. |
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Literary theory. |
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. |
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Career development. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9781350030077 (electronic book) |
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1350030074 (electronic book) |
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9781350030084 (epub) |
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1350030082 (epub) |
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9781350030091 (online) |
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1350030090 |
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9781350030060 (hardcover) |
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1350030066 (hardcover) |
