Creative Writing 2

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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 (fabulated development of one's own traumatic experience, synopsis of action based on an assigned subject with development of one selected situation, dramatization of a short story and other texts, 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.

Course contents

Again in the second semester, students develop their literary expression through work on their own texts, this time focusing on fabulation (developing a story). In work on those texts, they alternate/combine proceeding from the (experienced or shared) situation (e.g. when doing creative fabulation of their own traumatic experience) and from an assigned subject, i.e. proceeding from „experience“ to fabulation and from the given story (myth, fairy tale etc.) to its (subjective) interpretation through one's own fabulation or approach to to the narrative (e.g. in the form of a synopsis of action) with the expository (= evocation of an individual scene including dialogue), i.e. the „epic“ with the „dramatic.“ The texts turned in become the object of interpretation with participation from the beginning of all students, led by the pedagogue to the derivation of relevant terms of literary and theatrical poetics, developed within the framework of confrontation of storytelling (diegesis) and imitation (mimesis), narrativity and performativity, subject and fable, unwinding (a priori determined line of action) and development (i.e. motivation representing interpretation of the adapted story with specific fabulation), motives from within and outside of the action, action and composition etc.

Recommended or required reading

Jaroslav Vostrý: K divadelní podobě románu Zločin a trest, in: Činoherní klub 1965-1972 (Dramaturgie v praxi), Praha 1996, str. 87-99

Vladimir Propp: Morfologie rozprávky (v českém výboru Proppových studií, příp. samost. slovenské vydání)

Robert Scholes / Robert Kellog: Povaha vyprávění, Brno 2002

Materiály ke studiu režie a dramaturgie I (Obraz)

Also see literature for the course Stage Propaedeutics

Assessment methods and criteria

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

Further information

Course may be repeated

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

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The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Acting for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Directing for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)