Creative Writing

What is life? 

a ma ma coo

a lesson for loo   

a pubic doodle-doo 

a test of how to woo 

a cha cha dance 

a ha ha comic

a wa wa panic

a la la sleep!      (alireza ameri)

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Lecture assignment:

The needed material for the first part is available through photocopy, but for the second part students are expected to gather data on their own.

First Part topics:

1)The self: The first chapter provides an overview of dominant trends in thinking the difficult and much-contested concept of self in order to locate one's own approach.

2) Voice: What does it mean when we say that we have the voice ‘found a voice ‘for our writing?

3) Authorship: The idea of writing identity brings us to the concept of authorship and what it means to be an author.

4) Creativity

5) The reader: What role does the reader play in our writing?

6) Characters and selves: What is the relationship between the character of the book and the author?

7) Memory and history: How writers mainly use their memory and experiences to write.

8) Geography and culture: What happens when ideas and themes are transmitted between cultures?

9) Embodied selves: The relationship between the virtual reality of a book and the writer.

10)An essential self

Second part;

12) Language of humor

13) Metaphor *

14) Haiku

15) Language of poetry

16) Language of fiction

17) Rhetoric (rhetorical devices)

18) Linguistic

19) Allusion

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