This course is designed for those students interested in developing their abilities to create literary texts in Spanish through the rigorous process of study, reflection and writing. Students participate in group and individual literary production, articulating their own reading histories, experiences, imaginations, and cultures.
Prerequisites:
Recommended for those who are placed in levels SP476 and above.
Method of presentation:
Lecture and discussion; public performance.
Required work and form of assessment:
Since this is a practical course, students are required to attend all classes and activities and to submit all of the daily work proposed by the professor, in addition to contributing to the production of a bimonthly literary magazine in which the best papers will be published (50%). Mid-term exam (25%); final exam (25%).
content:
1. Introduction: reading to write; the autor, a double image; learning to renounce the self; writing as dialogue with the words of others.
2. Contents of the work: themes; comparisons between autors that follow the same themes; expressive forms of dreams and fantasies; who speaks in the text; distancing the author from the work.
3. The writer’s ‘kitchen’ : cooking without a recipe; common features of narrative and poetry; tension, intensities, tone, importance of the opening and conclusion.
4. Specific features of poetry: the poem as a unity of feeling; the poetric image, metaphor and metonomy; symbolism; breaks in space and time; rhythm and repetition; punctuation as silence.
5. Specific features of narrative: syntax; naturalism; styles; continuity; personality; narrator and point of view.
Required readings:
García Márquez, Gabriel. El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve. México: Ediciones del Equilibrista, 1987.
Saramago, José. El cuento de la isle desconocida. Madrid: Alfaguara, 1998.
Photocopied Materials distributed by the professor
Diccionario Salamanca de la lengua española (1996), Madrid, Santillana.*
Diccionario de sinónimos y antónimos (2005), Madrid, Espasa Calpe. *
*Another dictionary is acceptable, but it must be monolingual (Spanish-Spanish)
Recommended readings:
Acquaroni, Rosana (2007): Las palabras que se lleva el viento: Literatura y enseñanza de español como LE/L2. Madrid, Santillana.
Cassany, Daniel, (1995), La cocina de la escritura. Madrid. Anagrama.
Rivadeneira, Ariel (1997), El escritor y su oficio. Vivencias, experiencias y trucos de los escritores. Col. Escritura Creativa. Grafein Ediciones.
Creative Writing Workshop
This course is designed for those students interested in developing their abilities to create literary texts in Spanish through the rigorous process of study, reflection and writing. Students participate in group and individual literary production, articulating their own reading histories, experiences, imaginations, and cultures.
Recommended for those who are placed in levels SP476 and above.
Lecture and discussion; public performance.
Since this is a practical course, students are required to attend all classes and activities and to submit all of the daily work proposed by the professor, in addition to contributing to the production of a bimonthly literary magazine in which the best papers will be published (50%). Mid-term exam (25%); final exam (25%).
1. Introduction: reading to write; the autor, a double image; learning to renounce the self; writing as dialogue with the words of others.
2. Contents of the work: themes; comparisons between autors that follow the same themes; expressive forms of dreams and fantasies; who speaks in the text; distancing the author from the work.
3. The writer’s ‘kitchen’ : cooking without a recipe; common features of narrative and poetry; tension, intensities, tone, importance of the opening and conclusion.
4. Specific features of poetry: the poem as a unity of feeling; the poetric image, metaphor and metonomy; symbolism; breaks in space and time; rhythm and repetition; punctuation as silence.
5. Specific features of narrative: syntax; naturalism; styles; continuity; personality; narrator and point of view.
García Márquez, Gabriel. El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve. México: Ediciones del Equilibrista, 1987.
Saramago, José. El cuento de la isle desconocida. Madrid: Alfaguara, 1998.
Photocopied Materials distributed by the professor
Diccionario Salamanca de la lengua española (1996), Madrid, Santillana.*
Diccionario de sinónimos y antónimos (2005), Madrid, Espasa Calpe. *
*Another dictionary is acceptable, but it must be monolingual (Spanish-Spanish)
Acquaroni, Rosana (2007): Las palabras que se lleva el viento: Literatura y enseñanza de español como LE/L2. Madrid, Santillana.
Cassany, Daniel, (1995), La cocina de la escritura. Madrid. Anagrama.
Rivadeneira, Ariel (1997), El escritor y su oficio. Vivencias, experiencias y trucos de los escritores. Col. Escritura Creativa. Grafein Ediciones.