Creative Writing Workshop
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
-Develop the skills of critical reading of some narrative and poetic texts, focusing on their dominant processes; -
Encourage the production of creative texts from the literary "models".
Contents
2. Critical analysis and practical production of narrative texts with special emphasis on the short story.
3. The construction of intrigue, characters, and the creation of atmospheres (scenarios and themes). Narrative points of view.
4. The micro or flash fiction.
5. Hybrid narrative texts.
6. Writing from a pictorial or musical motif.
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Teaching Methods
Theoretical-practical classes presupposing oral discussion of the texts proposed for each class.
Evaluation in the continuous (encouraged) and final modalities according to the Academic Regulations of the University of Évora and the Regulation of the DLL.
Assessment
Evaluation methods
Assessment
According to the Regulamento Interno da Universidade de Évora and the Regulamento de Avaliação de Conhecimentos – Critérios definidos pelo Departamento de Linguística e Literaturas 2015/2016.
Mandatory attendance - Continuous Assessment: 75% (Ordem de Serviço nº3 ECS/2012); Final Assessment: 30% (nº4, Artº. 17 e cap.VI do REI); Mixt Assessment: 50% Students under Regimes especiais (nº3, Artº. 6 e cap.VI do REI) are exempted from the above mentioned percentages.
I - Continuous Assessment:
1st frequency: Written test: 50%. 2nd frequency: Written test: 40%.
In the class, creative writing texts: 10%.
Note: Continuous Assessment require achieving grade 08 in the writing test. The grades are only rounded off when registered in the pauta.
II - Exam:
Final exam: Written test: 100%
Recurso Exam: Written test: 100%
III – Mixt Assessment:
1 frequency: Written test: 80%
Fictional Project: 20%
Recommended Reading
Bibliography
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BOOTH, Wayne C.:
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1983, The Rhetoric of Fiction, Chicago/London, The University of Chicago Press.
BORGES, Jorge Luís:
1989 a), “Pierre Ménard, Autor do Quixote”, in Obras Completas, vol. I, Lisboa, Teorema, pp.460-467.
1989 b), “Sobre os Clássicos”, in Obras Completas, vol. II, Lisboa, Teorema, pp.146-147.
BROOKS, Peter: 1984, Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.
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1993, Rereading, London, Yale University Press.
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HUTCHEON, Linda:
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MANCELOS, João de: 2007, «Um Pórtico para a Escrita Criativa», in Pontes & Vírgulas: Revista Municipal de Cultura, nº 5. ano 2, Primavera.
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Teaching Staff
- Maria Antónia Sousa Monteiro da Cunha Lima [responsible]
