LMKB_a103 Creative Writing

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 10:00–11:40 B2.22
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The seminar is composed as a catalogue of methods, text-creating strategies, and techniques, for writing various kinds of texts in the Czech language, with varying communicative functions. Having experienced exercises in individual, tandem, and collective, writing, the students will have learned how to use the correct methods and approaches of the individual stages of writing an essay, or literary text.
Learning outcomes
Having gone through the course, students will be able to:
- use the correct methods and techniques of the individual stages of essay writing;
- use the corrects strategies for writing a literary text;
- recognize dominating features of texts from various literary genres;
- differentiate between the functions of various kinds of text, and communicative functions of autobiographical writing;
- proofread a Czech essay-type/literary text based on the communicative functions of the text.
Syllabus
  • Collective text. (Snowball)
  • Automatic writing.
  • Acrostic. (My name; My home town; Fairy-tale character)
  • Declensions. (Experimental poetry in the vein of Z. Rotrekl)
  • Digression. (The Magic Porridge Pot)
  • Genre change. (The Princess and the Pea)
  • Change of narrative point of view. (Hansel and Gretel)
  • Clustering.
  • Living photograph.
  • Timelessness.
  • Writing metaphors. (My house while I sleep)
  • Evaluation.
Literature
    required literature
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní: malá učebnice technik tvůrčího psaní. (Creative Writing.). 1st ed. Brno: Paido. Edice pedagogické literatury. 164 pp. ISBN 80-85931-99-0. 2002. info
    recommended literature
  • Náhradní obsah: Eliášová, Viera a kol. Na stope slovám. Príručka tvorivého písania pe učiteľov slovenského jazyka a literatúry. Bratislava: ŠPÚ; British Council Slovakia, 2007. ISBN 978-80-89225-35-4.
  • HORÁČEK, Radek, Zbyněk FIŠER and Vladimír HAVLÍK. Slovem, akcí, obrazem - příspěvek k interdisciplinaritě tvůrčího procesu (Among words, action, picture - a contribution to the interdisciplinarity of the creative process). 1. dotisk 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. 208 pp. SPISY PEDAGOGICKÉ FAKULTY MU sv. 146. ISBN 978-80-210-5389-2. 2012. info
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk, Dagmar DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Jitka CHOLASTOVÁ, Petr KUBĚNSKÝ, Pavla KOPEČNÁ and Zuzana ŠALAMOUNOVÁ. Tvůrčí psaní v literární výchově jako nástroj poznávání (Creative writing in literary education as a tool of cognition). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. 226 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6121-7. 2012. info
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní pro dospělé v teorii a praxi. (Creative writing). 1st ed. Brno: Vzdělávací a poradenské centrum Masarykovy univerzity. 32 pp. Univerzita třetího věku. 2005. info
  • ČECHOVÁ, Marie, Jan CHLOUPEK, Marie KRČMOVÁ and Eva MINÁŘOVÁ. Současná česká stylistika. Vydání první. Praha: ISV nakladatelství. 342 stran. ISBN 8086642003. 2003. info
Teaching methods
seminar, teamworks
Assessment methods
Requirements for obtaining a credit: portfolio including work created in seminars, active participation in lessons. Portfolio has to be handed in before the end of June, in electronic form.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on course enrolment limitations: Kurs se vypisuje pouze pro posluchače oboru LMK.
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