Creative Writing 1

Subject guarantor:

Jan VEDRAL

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan VEDRAL

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The goal of the class is the development of creativity through written expression focused in such a way that it may cultivate students ability to express themselves both generally, i.e. in their instinctive and conscious (artistic) tendency to potentially symbolic (thematicized) expression, and in connection with their stage sense and its cultivation.

Mode of study:

Classes, writer's colloquium

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Writing assignments (record of a dream, description of observed action, record of an overheard dialogue, dialogue in a situation etc., the subject matter and focus of which are based on the individual expectations of students as exhibited during the performing of earlier assignments) and reflectionn of texts of others with the use of appropriate terms.

Recommended optional programme components:

Continuous readings which are recommended to students by the instructor individually.

Course contents:

Students develop their literary expression through work on their own texts, and especially on texts based on dialogue and action in space, i.e. exhibiting certain shared features with stage dialogue and action in space on stage. In work on those texts, they alternate/combine proceeding from imagination and from observation, i.e. proceeding „from the subject“ and „from the object“, or proceeding (relatively!) „without distance“ and „with distance.“ Specifically, for example, the recording of a dream reveals the most general foundations of imagination is supplemented with a description of the observed actions of a real person or people; with the recording of an overheard dialogue, to the contrary, is the „inventing“ of a dialogue and the capturing of a real situation contrasts with a „dramatic tableaux“, etc. The texts handed in become the object of interpretation, with the participation from the beginning of students led by the pedagogue to the derivation of the relevant terms of literary and theatrical poetics, developed within the framework of confrontation of direct and indirect (figurative) expression, literal and symbolic levels, the subject and (internal) theme, semantics and prosody, verbal and non-verbal gesture and written and oral gesture or the „full“ potential of stage expression.

Recommended or required reading:

Jaroslav Vostrý: Dobrodružství tvoření, Amatérská scéna 1989

Jan Mukařovský: Dvě studie o dialogu (s přílohou Zvuková a významová výstavba dramatického dialogu, in: Prolegomena Scénografické encyklopedie, část 5, Praha 1971

Jiří Veltruský, Zvukové vlastnosti textu a hercův hlasový projev, in: (týž) Příspěvky k teorii divadla Praha (DÚ) 1994

Materiály ke studiu režie a dramaturgie I (Obraz)

Also see the literature for the class Stage Propaedeutics

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Students develop through writing an assigned topic task and interpret it. The instructor clarifies concepts and the nature of structure.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on original writing results and class participation.

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Further information:

Course may be repeated

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Režie a dramaturgie činoherního divadla (Bc.) (optional subject)
• Dramaturgie činoherního divadla (Mgr.) (optional subject)
• Teorie a kritika (Bc.) (optional subject)
• Teorie a kritika (Mgr.) (optional subject)
• Herectví činoherního divadla (Mgr.) (optional subject)
• Režie činoherního divadla (Mgr.) (optional subject)