Creative Writing as a Communicative Act : An Artistic Method
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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, this article comments solely on the individual and institutional levels.
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Research areas and keywords | Subject classification (UKÄ) – MANDATORY
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Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 179-191 |
Journal | New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 3 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Publication category | Research |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Externally published | Yes |