Career Construction Theory and Life Writing

This volume applies the insight and methods of career construction theory to explore how autobiographical writing is used in different professional careers, from fiction and journalism to education and medicine.

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Hywel Dix is a researcher in contemporary literature, critical cultural theory, authorial careers and autofiction at Bournemouth University, UK. His monograph The Late-Career Novelist (2017) was the first study to apply career construction theory to analysis of authorial careers and his edited collection Autofiction in English was published in 2018.

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Introduction: Career Construction Theory and Life Writing

Hywel Dix

1. From Writer's Block to Extended Plot: Career Construction Theory and Lives in Writing

Hywel Dix

2. Undisguised alter ego: Mary McCarthy's autofictional career

Jeffrey Clapp

3. The Poetics of the Hypercycle in Mircea Crtrescu's Solenoid

Andrei Terian

4. Academic career construction: personnel documents as personal documents

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

5. The Auto/Biographical Journalist and Stories of Lived Experience

Karen Fowler-Watt

6. Career Construction in volatile settings: seeking congruence in a journalist's world today

Michael Lee Humphrey and Lorie Humphrey

7. Narrative Medicine in China: how doctors write to understand the profession

Rong Huang

8. Writing the Self and Bereavement: Dialogical Means and Markers of Moving Through Grief

Reinekke Lengelle