雙語創意寫作
Bilingual Creative Writing
| 節 | 週五 |
|---|---|
3 10:10–11:00 | 雙語創意寫作 HC401 2 節連堂 |
4 11:10–12:00 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
This course introduces writing techniques that aim to transcend genre by learning some tricks and common practices in creative writing cultures. Emphasis will be on understanding techniques for combining words so as to invoke emotional undertow of good fiction writing as well as the compression of poetry. Though not required, students from music and media arts backgrounds are encouraged to present final projects and (at least some) assignments in non-textual media such as sound files, short films, mock presentations (for instance, using PowerPoint, TedTalk, or podcast formats), or even live computer music or acoustic music with sampled language in electronics performances, to name a few possibilities (designed to encourage interdisciplinary synergy). Words have contexts and intertexts associated with them, but these may be subverted and undone, rerouted in creative engagements. Grading tends to be generous and based on attendance and turning in assignments.
Open to all university students, undergraduate and graduate. Interest in expressing oneself in English with reference to one other language helpful but not mandatory (in other words, this course can serve as a general English language creative writing course for students).
The course includes many guided writing assignments of an experimental variety, including the use of various Web pages. We will include short readings and films to supplement creative activities.
Participation and attendance: 50% Assignments/exercises: 25% Final project or writing portfolio (collection of edited course assignments): 25%
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | Introduction to course. Anyone can write: the craft of writing. On poetry, prose poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid genres. On keeping a journal (recording observations, passing thoughts, and fragments from other writings). Photography. Sound recording. The importance of reading other poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. |
| 第 2 週 | You and the worlds of multiple languages. Empowering yourself as a writer. Form and content: linking lines; continuity without a static whole. Sound and sense (music and repetition in writing). Bring bilingual haiku. |
| 第 3 週 | Poetry: shaping stanza, spaces between words. (The importance of defamiliarization.) How you see what you say matters. Share free writing/recording/commentary. |
| 第 4 週 | Dramatic elements in writing poetry: writing dialogue and conflicts into poetry. “Letter to My Body” (reading and exercise) |
| 第 5 週 | Loosening up. Form and content in procedural writing. (Example from John Cage's mesostics.) More online tools and sources. |
| 第 6 週 | Loosening up. Form and content in procedural writing. (Bilingual examples from Hsia Yu 夏宇). Using Google translation. |
| 第 7 週 | Poetry randomization and "uncreative" writing Bring news clippings (or other disposable texts) and scissors or computer for randomizing exercises. |
| 第 8 週 | Autobiographical fiction: crisis and conflict. |
| 第 9 週 | Character sketches. |
| 第 10 週 | Short fiction. Backstory and intertexts. Or, more than what meets the eye. |
| 第 11 週 | Dramatic writing: how to write a play. Premise. Languages. Conflict. Writing in both languages at once. Discuss final projects. |
| 第 12 週 | Dynamics. Kinetics. Spaces. Bodies. Dance. Architecture. |
| 第 13 週 | Engaging social injustice in creative writing. How to be poetic while being "political"--differences across languages. Uses of humor, satire, and cultural jamming. |
| 第 14 週 | Flash fiction. Genre writing (mystery, science fiction, romance, other). |
| 第 15 週 | New media writing: Twitter markets. In-class writing. |
| 第 16 週 | Creative nonfiction: the personal essay; nature writing, travel and memoir. Bilingual blogging in Taiwan. |
| 第 17 週 | Student presentations of final projects (chapbook, play, video or sounds art). |
| 第 18 週 | Student presentations of final projects (chapbook, play, video or sounds art). |
Readings and assignments will be distributed as in-class handouts.
- 地點
- HC 415
- 時間
- 3EF
- 聯絡方式
- interpoetics@gmail.com brink@nctu.edu.tw x58115