CREATIVE WRITING

Academic year
2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
LA SCRITTURA 'CREATIVA'
Course code
NU003B (AF:401828 AR:258159)
Teaching language
Italian
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Minor
Academic Discipline
L-FIL-LET/14
Period
Summer course
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
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The objective of the module is to convey the technical fundamentals of fiction writing (short story and novel) by forming a more attentive method of reading and practicing with written works.
- Learn the theoretical elements of fiction writing.
- Practice a different kind of reading, "through the eyes of the writer," so as to recognize the most relevant technical aspects of the text and understand how it works.
- Write structurally accomplished short narrative texts.
- Reason about language problems and improving one's style.
- Acquire good critical and self-critical skills.
- Write a text in which the main technical elements of a short story or novel are correctly identified.
Only a good command of written Italian and a sincere interest in reading and fiction writing are required.
The main contents of the course will be:

- What is fiction writing and why we tell stories.
- The foundational elements of a story: narrator, characters, space and time, style, plot.
- Analysis of some short stories, with group commentary.
- Focus on plot development.
- Focus on character.
- Focus on language and style.
- How to describe spaces.

Some writing exercises are planned; they will be commented directly in class.
- Nina Berberova, Il giunco mormorante, Adelphi, Milano 1990
- Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata, Einaudi, Torino, varie edizioni
Verification will be made through the evaluation of a critical text composed during the exam.
written
Lectures, group discussions, practical exercises.
This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 23/06/2023