Celebrating Literature to Shape Citizenship: France's 2007 ‘Lire en fête’

Understanding the cultural potential of rural festivals: A conceptual framework of cultural capital development

“…Findings suggest that festival participants can develop their literary capital by purchasing books, winning a writing award, learning about a new genre or improving their writing skills (Driscoll, 2014;Robertson & Yeoman, 2014;Sapiro, Picaud, Pacouret, & Seiler, 2015). Thus, peripheral literary festivals emerge as arenas where participants can gain an introduction to literature and develop their literary capital (Merfeld-Langston, 2010). As such, the data support Kruger's (2019, p. 189) analysis of literary festivals as significant occasions that encourage and increase 'purchasing behaviours [of literary works], which is vital to the viability and continuation of the arts industry'.…”