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Bourdieu and aesthetics in creative writing

Bourdieu and aesthetics in creative writing
Bourdieu and aesthetics in creative writing
This article reports on a collaborative project inaugurated in a Creativity Workshop in the University of Canberra. It explores how the work of the French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is useful to creative artists and writers. The empirical focus is a piece of historical fiction—The Dishonest Woman—set in c16 Antwerp. Bourdieu is used in three ways: to map the social context of the novel; the actual field represented; and the place of the author within the contemporary literary field. This work represents a further step towards founding a ‘reflexive aesthetics’ in the creative arts.
Bourdieu, creative writing
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Koning, Lisa
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Grenfell, Michael
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Koning, Lisa
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Grenfell, Michael
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Koning, Lisa and Grenfell, Michael (2019) Bourdieu and aesthetics in creative writing. Axon, 4.

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This article reports on a collaborative project inaugurated in a Creativity Workshop in the University of Canberra. It explores how the work of the French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is useful to creative artists and writers. The empirical focus is a piece of historical fiction—The Dishonest Woman—set in c16 Antwerp. Bourdieu is used in three ways: to map the social context of the novel; the actual field represented; and the place of the author within the contemporary literary field. This work represents a further step towards founding a ‘reflexive aesthetics’ in the creative arts.

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Published date: April 2019
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Keywords: Bourdieu, creative writing
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Local EPrints ID: 488527
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/488527
ISSN: 0834-7824
PURE UUID: d4f5aa40-7df7-4393-beda-3b409f001be0
ORCID for Michael Grenfell: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2038-0317

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Date deposited: 26 Mar 2024 17:43
Last modified: 27 Mar 2024 02:32

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Author: Lisa Koning
Author: Michael Grenfell ORCID iD

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