CREATIVE WRITING

Academic year
2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
LA SCRITTURA 'CREATIVA'
Course code
NU003B (AF:401828 AR:258159)
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 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.
Lectures, group discussions, practical exercises.
Italian
written
This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 23/06/2023