The Late-Career Novelist Career Construction Theory, Authors and Autofiction
- Submitting institution
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Bournemouth University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 294856
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781350030060
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Drawing on four years of research, this is the first major study to apply career construction theory to critical analysis of literary works and authorial careers. Its underlying argument is complex, because it develops a methodology for combining approaches to career constructionism taken from vocational guidance research in psychology and sociology with insight taken from the emerging branch of literary studies known as autofiction. In doing so it both provides a new model of authorship and proposes a re-evaluation of often-neglected works produced late in author’s careers, which it shows are characterised by a high degree of self-reflexivity.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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