Creative Writing as a Communicative Act : An Artistic Method
(2010) In New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing 7(3). p.179-191- Abstract
- With Habermas' theory of communicative action as the starting point, a theoretical model is devised to investigate the act of creative writing as formulated in interviews made with students and teachers on a university study program me in creative writing. This article explores writers' work procedures in a communicative network of institutional and everyday practices, in the light of established notions of literature and authors. In the informants' references to their own writing, the metaphor of 'space' - specifically, how an 'inner' creative space interacts with an 'outer' public one - is crucial. This metaphor applies to several levels of communicative action: individual, institutional, public and textual. Owing to its limited length,... (More)
- With Habermas' theory of communicative action as the starting point, a theoretical model is devised to investigate the act of creative writing as formulated in interviews made with students and teachers on a university study program me in creative writing. This article explores writers' work procedures in a communicative network of institutional and everyday practices, in the light of established notions of literature and authors. In the informants' references to their own writing, the metaphor of 'space' - specifically, how an 'inner' creative space interacts with an 'outer' public one - is crucial. This metaphor applies to several levels of communicative action: individual, institutional, public and textual. Owing to its limited length, this article comments solely on the individual and institutional levels. (Less)
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- Sarrimo, Cristine LU
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- 2010
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 179 - 191
- publisher
- Routledge
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- scopus:79957849345
- ISSN
- 1479-0726
- DOI
- 10.1080/14790726.2010.509509
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- English
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