Theoretical hypotheses on academic creative writing programmes

Author(s)

  • Justine Huppe Université de Liège

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.1085

Keywords:

creative writing, enrichment, general intellect, investment in forms, professionalization

Abstract

Noting the adequacy between the precepts of the creative economy and the emergence of new labels and new academic teaching programmes, this paper intends to envisage creative writing programmes as mediating devices, which are not external to the economy, but integrated into it. The aim is first to situate them in what Boltanski and Esquerre (2017) call an economy of "enrichment", before studying their critical scope: as a space for elucidating the rules of the literary game, for the collective adjustment of various actors (writers, academics, publishers, etc.), and even for producing solidarity between authors who were previously more isolated. From the start of the new school year to a (possible) class consciousness, therefore.

 

Author Biography

  • Justine Huppe, Université de Liège

    Justine Huppe holds a PhD in language, literature and translation sciences at the University of Liège. Her thesis (La littérature embarquée. Réflexivité et nouvelles configurations critiques dans le moment des années 2000), supervised by Jean-Pierre Bertrand and Frédéric Claisse, focuses on the ways in which contemporary French literature reflects on its own impact on the world. In her post-doctoral research, she intends to study the evolving creative writing programmes in France.

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Published

2021-05-01

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2020): The sociology of literary mediation

Section

Articles - thematic dossier

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How to Cite

“Theoretical hypotheses on academic creative writing programmes” (2021) RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 14(2), pp. 87–101. doi:10.18352/relief.1085.