CREATIVE WRITING

Academic year
2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
LA SCRITTURA 'CREATIVA'
Course code
NU003B (AF:469133 AR:256439)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Minor
Educational sector code
L-FIL-LET/14
Period
Summer course
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The aim 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 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 critical text in which the main technical elements of a short story or novel are correctly identified.
No prerequisites are necessary to take the course; only good command of written Italian and sincere passion for literature 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.
- Analytical reading of some short stories, with group commentary.
- Focus on plot development.
- Focus on character.
- Focus on language and style.
- How to describe spaces.
Verification of learning is through a written test, with a choice of creating a short story or writing a critical essay. All information will be provided during the course. The main evaluation criteria will be originality, clarity of exposition, care for language and structural coherence of the text.
- Lectures
- In-class exercises
- Exercises to be done at home
Italian
written
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 26/03/2024