Grupos de cursos de la edición actual
Session 1
Once upon a time: from Plato to Tony Soprano.
Session 2
Structures and patterns: building a good story.
Session 3
Universal themes: what makes a good story?
Session 4
How to show and when to tell: the invisible narrative.
Session 5
Characters: what will your story be?
Session 6
The sense of place: mapping your setting.
Session 7
The sense of time: perception, flow and chronology.
Session 8
Suspense and emotional connection: embracing your inner storyteller.
- Analize and apply prominent storytelling techniques;
- Outline the cultural roots of contemporary storytelling;
- Understand the role of emotional connection and symbolic elements;
- Develop a toolbox for writing and delivering effective stories.
Each session will include a theoretical introduction, class discussion and critical reading of a variety of cultural products (short stories, newspapers, essays, advertising campaigns, movies, TV series). Participants will also be involved in the process of designing, writing and presenting a story.
- David Lodge,The Art of Fiction, New York, Penguin Books, 1992.
- Edward Morgan Forster,Aspects of the novels, London, Penguin Classics, 2005
- Ernest Hemingway, Hills like white elephants, Toronto, Harper Collins, 2013.
- Francesca Polletta, It was like a fever: storytelling in protest and politics, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Gay Talese, High Notes. Selected Writings, New York, Bloomsbury, 2017.
- Italo Calvino,Six memos for the next millennium, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1988.
- Joan Didion, The White Album, Toronto, Harper Collins, 2017.
- Jonathan Gottschall,The Storytelling Animal. How stories make us human, New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
- Jorge Luis Borges,Ficciones, New York, Grove Press, 1962.
- Laurie Alberts,Showing and Telling, Cincinnati: Writers’ Digest Books, 2010.
- Lindsay Efion, The seven pillars of Storytelling, Bristol,Sparkol Books, 2015.
- Mieke Bal,Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1985.
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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