Course Type | Course Code | No. Of Credits |
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Foundation Core | SCC2LA106 | 4 |
Semester and Year Offered: Monsoon, 2017
Course Coordinator and Team: Dr. Akhil Katyal (currently)
Email of course coordinator: akhilkatyal@aud.ac.in
Pre-requisites: None
Course Objectives/Description:
This course aims to deal with Literary Journalism, the specific genre of creative Non Fiction, opening newer possibilities for learning and experimentation for the students of creative writing. It will enable the students to draw a parallelism between creative & non creative and Journalistic & Literary-journalistic writing and allow critical probing into the complex dynamics of writing as an art-form or creative expression. The focus of this course is the intersection between journalism and literature; its aim, to encourage the students to develop a journalistic and critical understanding of the finest reportage, essays and anthologies written over the decades since its emergence as ‘New Journalism’ in the seventies. Its primary objective is to initiate the students into the complex genre of narrative non-fiction which has gained predominance in the field of creative writing. The overall structure of the course comprises a series of rigorous practice oriented writing exercises. They will be engaged both in select texts analysis as well as production of literary journalistic write-ups. There will be regular interactions with invited writers of narrative- non –fiction to provide insights to the art and craft of writing literary journalism.
Course Outcomes:
Brief description of modules/ Main modules:
Module 1. (Week 1 and 2): Introduce the subject. Give an overview about the related theories and history. The course will begin with the basic premises of journalistic writing and its various aspects to deliberate upon the commonalities and differences between literature and literary -journalistic writing.
Module 2 (week 3 and 4): Text analysis. Discussion about characterization, narrative plotting, scene-setting, point of view, tone and style with select texts. Discussions about various literary productions with subtle manifestations of the literary journalistic form such as ‘Chronicle of a Death foretold’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez or ‘Animal People’ by Indra Sinha would be taken into account to give the students a deeper understanding of the genre.
Module 3 (Week 5 to 11). Discussion about the techniques of writing for literary journalism- interviewing, story organization, word choice, self-editing, invasion of privacy, libel, etc.
Workshop with an invited writer and writing exercises.
Module 4 (Week 12 to 15).Insights about this inter-generic expression by discussing the philosophical and theoretical ideas related to literary journalism. Discussion about the dynamics of space, contexts, ethics etc.
Workshop with an invited writer and regular writing exercises.
Assessment Details with weights:
Reading List:
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ADDITIONAL REFERENCE:
N.A.