FPFVA036 Creative Writing and Reading

Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta v Opavě
zima 2019
Rozsah
0/1/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D. (cvičící)
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doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D.
Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta v Opavě
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Mateřské obory/plány
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Cíle předmětu
The course provides an introduction to creative writing that emphasizes the crucial aspects of creative reading in recognizing the structures, patterns and tools of fiction. Through a close reading of various texts of different genres, the students will become aware of the potential and challenges of each form that will be later applied in their own adaptations and original texts. Students will learn the basis of literary canons and the possibilities of innovation and reshaping of the existing forms. The course will be based on the combination of theoretical background, practice of close reading and individual creative activities that will result in acknowledgement of text structure, the relations between setting and character, the role and effective uses of intertextuality, and the importance of self-editing process. The practical exercises will improve and enlarge the students' vocabulary and ability to create coherent texts of various genres, predominantly short stories and poems.
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction to the course
    2. Introduction to reader types: Why do we read?
    3. Where have I seen her before?: Time in writing: temporality, linearity, flashbacks
    4. Character, setting: Setting as Character
    5. Two-face characters
    6. Enlarging the Vocabulary
    7. Managing beginnings and endings
    8. Starting with a Name and Title
    9. Sharing a story: Cooperative story, group variations
    10. 250 words of boredom
    11. "Poetry, I too dislike it"
    12. 101 Uses of a Blackbird
    13. Creative Texts Presentation
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Flannery O'Connor. Everything that Rises Must Converge. info
  • Bernard Malamud. Idiots First. info
  • Marianne Moore. Poetry. info
  • T. S. Eliot. The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock. info
  • William Faulkner. The Sound and The Fury. info
  • Wallace Stevens. Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Blackbird. info
    doporučená literatura
  • Geraghty, Margret. The Five-Minute Writer. Oxford: HowtoBooks, 2009. info
  • Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy. Clevedon, Multilingual Matters, 2008. info
  • Morley, David. The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. info
  • Bishop, Wendy, David Starkey. Keywords in Creative Writing. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. info
  • Mills, Paul. The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook. London: Routledge, 2006. info
  • Paul, Dennis E. The Funbook of Creative Writing. Scottsdale: Remedia Publications, 2000. info
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
- 70% attendance in classes
- active participation in discussions
- critical essay of 2-3 pages debating a chosen text
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