Format:
216 Seiten
,
24 cm
Edition:
First published
ISBN:
9781350030060
,
1350030066
Content:
"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"--
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350030084
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350030077
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Dix, Hywel The Late-Career Novelist London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017 ISBN 9781350030077
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Dix, Hywel Rowland The late-career novelist London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 ISBN 9781350030091
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350030077
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350030084
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Schriftsteller
;
Karriere
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
