CJBD25 Creative Writing

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
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
Timetable
Thu 16:40–18:15 C31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
The seminar is aimed at expanding linguistic and literary abilities for creating factual and (quasi)literary texts and at developing individual styles of authors. Participants will try different writing techniques supporting imagination and nonlinear thinking, stimulation techniques, techniques eliminating blocks, techniques of collective authorship and collective problem solving. Precious feedback, important in revising texts, will be achieved through discussion over texts produced during seminars.
At the end of this course, students should be able: to understand creative processes of text production; to interpret different communicative functions of a text and create texts which communicate successfully.
Syllabus
  • Names of individual exercises:
  • Acrostic,
  • Anthropomorphization,
  • Automatic text,
  • Brainstorming and brainwriting,
  • Clustering,
  • Digression,
  • Double clustering,
  • The eleven,
  • Collage,
  • Collective text,
  • Lyric prose,
  • Picture cluster,
  • Enlivened photography,
  • Descriptions from different space perspectives,
  • Writing in pairs,
  • Story,
  • Snow-ball,
  • Looking for themes,
  • Unblocking,
  • Stimulation (music, literature, fine arts),
  • Revisions,
  • Perceiving macrostructures,
  • Narrating in different time perspectives,
  • Sound metaphors,
  • Genre variations.
Literature
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní: malá učebnice technik tvůrčího psaní. (Creative Writing.). 1st ed. Brno: Paido. Edice pedagogické literatury., 2002, 164 pp. ISBN 80-85931-99-0. info
  • RICO, Gabriele L. Writing the natural way : using right-brain techniques to release your expressive powers. Rev. ed. New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 2000, xix, 262. ISBN 0874779618. info
  • Werder, L. v.: Lehrbuch des Kreativen Schreibens. 1993.
  • BRHELOVÁ, Eva. Tvorba dramatického textu a její pedagogické aplikace. Vyd. 1. Brno: Janáčkova akademie múzických umění v Brně, 2006, 285 s. ISBN 8086928179. info
  • Scheidt, J. v.: Kreatives Schreiben. 1989.
  • Rico, G. L.: Garantiert schreiben lernen, 1984.
  • Bein, Ch.: Schreibstörungen: ihre Pädagogik und Therapie, 1993.
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk and Jitka CHOLASTOVÁ. Tvorba odborného textu a techniky tvůrčího psaní na vysoké škole. (The Creation of the Academic Text and the Techniques of Creative Writing at University.). In Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007, p. 65-75. ISBN 978-80-210-4396-1. info
  • FIŠERA, Ivan. Tvůrčí potenciál podniku. Praha: Svoboda, 1990. ISBN 8020501444. info
  • CHOLASTOVÁ, Jitka. Tvůrčí psaní třikrát jinak. Česká literatura : časopis pro literární vědu. Praha: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, 2004, vol. 2004, No 5. ISSN 0009-0468. info
Assessment methods
Methods: lectures, class discussion, group projects. Individual writing.
Portfolio with own texts.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on course enrolment limitations: Maximální počet účastníků je 15.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2001, Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006.
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