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Life Writing
Career Construction Theory and Life Writing
vol.
17
no.
1
2020
18651578
2020
periodical issue
'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properties of the autobiographical genre over the past two decades resulted in the term autobiography gradually being superseded by the more flexible one, life writing.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, becoming less strongly focused on literary texts and genres and more critically interested in other forms of life writing more generally: testimony, autoethnography, the representation of the self in digital media including social media, and so on. In a sense, the current volume about Career Construction Theory and Life Writing can be seen as an extension of that process.' (Hywel Dix, Introduction)
2020
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139-141
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