Postgraduate Course: Elements of Fiction One: Angles of Incidence (Distance Learning) (ENLI11165)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course consists of monthly online seminars (webinars), online workshops (writing forums) and individual consultations. Webinars will focus on theoretical and reflective exploration of key topics and tailored writing assignments will be set. Tutor-hosted writing forums will take place three times per year. Each will last for twelve days. Students will present and critique work in progress by their peers. Students will also consult five times per annum with a writing tutor. At the end of the year, students will submit 10,000 words of prose fiction for assessment. |
| Course description |
1. The Hook and the Line: Openings
2. Sudden Illumination: Flash Fiction
3 Thinking Beyond the Frame: Aspects of the Short Story
4. People on the Page: Character
5. The Uses and Functions of Speech
6. Spirit of Place: Locality or Location?
7. Did it Really Happen? Autobiography to Fiction
8. Angles of Incidence: Point(s) of View
9. The Webs we Weave: Narrative Threads
10. Strata and Sub-strata: Image, Metaphor and Symbol
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential Course Texts |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 1,
Online Activities 105,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 25,
Formative Assessment Hours 8,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
252 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
10,000 word portfolio (100%) |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
| By its conclusion, all participants should have a clear idea of what to expect, what is expected of them and to be comfortable using the relevant technology.In synchronous webinars, students will be encouraged to consider through reading, discussion and tailored writing assignments, specific elements of fiction and how these might effectively play a part in the integrated whole, whether this be flash fiction, a short story, a novella or novel. Though all the component parts of a fictional text are co-dependent, for practical purposes webinars will focus on different aspects of fiction in order to learn how best they might be developed and employed.
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Reading List
Bauer, Douglas, The Stuff of Fiction(available as e-book in library)
Brande, Dorothea, Becoming a Writer
Boylan, Clare(ed), The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explained
Cox, Ailsa, Writing Short Stories
Gardner, John, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers Goldberg, Natalie, Writing Down The Bones: Freeing the Writer Within King, Stephen, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Kundera, Milan, Testaments Betrayed
Morley, David, The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing(available as e-book)
Mullan, John, How Novels Work O¿Connor, Flannery, Mystery & Manners
Olmstead, Robert, Elements of the Writing Craft Prince, Gerard, Dictionary of Narratology
Prose, Francine, Reading Like a Writer
Shapard, Robert and Thomas, James (eds), New Sudden Fiction International
Wood, James, How Fiction Works
Woolf, Virginia and Woolf, Leonard, A Writer¿s Diary, Being extracts from the Diary of
Virginia Woolf
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | EoF1 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Dilys Rose
Tel:
Email: drose@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sophie Bryan
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Sophie.Bryan@ed.ac.uk |
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