Creative Writing 1

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Learning outcomes of the course unit:

To learn to read reality before writing it. Checking of one's talent. Writing and an understanding of the world.

Mode of study:

Lecturer readings, moderated discussions and interpretation activities.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

The desire to investigate the mystery of the world through speech.

Course contents:

Curriculum:

1. The concept of writing in history.

2. Subjective standpoints.

3. Hermeneutics.

4. Attempts.

Syllabus:

Learn how to read before writing. Writing as a way of understanding the world. Risk of aggresive profiling in a cynical time. Lévinas? Speech as Responsibility for the Other. Learn to write? To act? Or to read? Shouldn't writing be preceded by the humility of reading? Can you expect the gift of speech without it?

Poetry translation. What rhythm means. Mimesis of translation.

Recommended or required reading:

Carriére, Jean-Claude: Vyprávět příběh, Praha 1995

Kerr, J.: Jak nepsat hru, Praha 1980

Lévinas, Emmanuel: Etika a nekonečno, Praha 1994

Vladimír Mikeš: Proč psát, Praha 2003

Ricoeur, Paul: Čas a vyprávění, Praha 2000

Ricoeur, Paul: Filosofie vůle, Praha 1988

Život, pravda, symbol, Praha 1993

Stanzel, Franz K.: Teorie vyprávění, Praha 1988

Assessment methods and criteria:

Activity and written work.

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This course is registered as an elective for all DAMU students.

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