Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture by Millicent Weber

Author:Millicent Weber
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

For Participant EWF9, the shared experience of the literary festival is distinct from that offered by other live events because of the direct control that audience members have in choosing which writers’ talks to attend. This emphasises the role of the literary festival in providing a platform for the expression of individual taste, demonstrating a specific mechanism by which cultural knowledge can be mobilised as a social facilitator. In addition to using pre-existing cultural knowledge to inform attendance at literary festivals, audience members described the value of the festival as providing a serendipitous space in which they might discover new and enjoyable writers and books. This is taken to an extreme by Participant PEF5:I like not having to plan, and just turning up and seeing what’s going on. I’m quite happy to just walk into the middle of things, or the end, and find out that I quite like what’s going on, or that I don’t, and stay for a bit, and then disappear. (Participant PEF5)

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