Hywel Dix
Biographic Data
| ID | 2555701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hywel Dix |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hywel |
| FAMILY NAME | Dix |
| SIGNATURE | DIX H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bournemouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3584-5199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unfulfilled vocations in contemporary American fiction
This paper analyses the representation of unfulfilled creative vocations in contemporary American fiction using career construction theory, which emerged after the 2007 economic crisis when large numbers of people sought new forms of vocational guidance. It argues that a number of American novelists started to portray changing or unfulfilled creative vocations in fiction as a response to the overall changes in American society caused by the crisi…
Career Construction Theory and Life Writing
In the introduction to a 2017 special issue (14.3) of this journal devoted to the 'limits' of life writing, David McCooey suggested that an increasing degree of theoretical investigation into the properties of the autobiographical genre over the past two decades resulted in the term autobiography gradually being superseded by the more flexible one, life writing.This process was characterised, he argued, by an expansion of the object of study, bec…
The Qualified Self
Reviewed by: The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life by Lee Humphreys Hywel Dix (bio) Reviews 477 The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life Lee Humphreys MIT Press, 2018, 200 pp. ISBN 9780262037853, $30.00 hardcover. Much of the rapidly expanding research into the relationship between life writing and digital media has emphasized technological transformation and a corresponding epochal shift…
From Writer’s Block to Extended Plot
Although intangible, authorial careers are nevertheless material entities that have to be constructed in order to exist and that can be analysed to generate critical understanding of the creative works produced within them. Yet until recently, very little research or scholarly attention had been devoted to the concept of the authorial career as such. This paper argues that the body of work known as career construction theory, which originated in …
On Balkanism and Orientalism
This paper explores the extent to which Eastern Europe has been historically subject to a process of ‘othering’ in the Western literary imagination; and how far the Western practice of ‘Balkanism’ can be considered congruous with the wider practice of ‘Orientalism’ throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the twenty-first. Drawing on theoretical work by Vesna Goldsworthy and Maria Todorova, it shows that in both fiction and lite…
From Writer’s Block to Extended Plot
Although intangible, authorial careers are nevertheless material entities that have to be constructed in order to exist and that can be analysed to generate critical understanding of the creative works produced within them. Yet until recently, very little research or scholarly attention had been devoted to the concept of the authorial career as such. This paper argues that the body of work known as career construction theory, which originated in …
On Balkanism and Orientalism
This paper explores the extent to which Eastern Europe has been historically subject to a process of ‘othering’ in the Western literary imagination; and how far the Western practice of ‘Balkanism’ can be considered congruous with the wider practice of ‘Orientalism’ throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the twenty-first. Drawing on theoretical work by Vesna Goldsworthy and Maria Todorova, it shows that in both fiction and lite…
From Writer’s Block to Extended Plot
Although intangible, authorial careers are nevertheless material entities that have to be constructed in order to exist and that can be analysed to generate critical understanding of the creative works produced within them. Yet until recently, very little research or scholarly attention had been devoted to the concept of the authorial career as such. This paper argues that the body of work known as career construction theory, which originated in …
Career Construction Theory and Life Writing
In the introduction to a 2017 special issue (14.3) of this journal devoted to the 'limits' of life writing, David McCooey suggested that an increasing degree of theoretical investigation into the properties of the autobiographical genre over the past two decades resulted in the term autobiography gradually being superseded by the more flexible one, life writing.This process was characterised, he argued, by an expansion of the object of study, bec…
The Qualified Self
Reviewed by: The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life by Lee Humphreys Hywel Dix (bio) Reviews 477 The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life Lee Humphreys MIT Press, 2018, 200 pp. ISBN 9780262037853, $30.00 hardcover. Much of the rapidly expanding research into the relationship between life writing and digital media has emphasized technological transformation and a corresponding epochal shift…
Unfulfilled vocations in contemporary American fiction
This paper analyses the representation of unfulfilled creative vocations in contemporary American fiction using career construction theory, which emerged after the 2007 economic crisis when large numbers of people sought new forms of vocational guidance. It argues that a number of American novelists started to portray changing or unfulfilled creative vocations in fiction as a response to the overall changes in American society caused by the crisi…
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (2 works)