N20-46 - Literary narration in new media
| Course specification | ||||
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| Type of study | Bachelor academic studies | |||
| Study programme | ||||
| Course title | Literary narration in new media | |||
| Acronym | Status | Semester | Number of classes | ECTS |
| N20-46 | elective | 7 | 2L + 1E | 4.0 |
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| Lecturer/Associate (practicals) | ||||
| Prerequisite | Form of prerequisites | |||
| According to the study rules of the First cycle of studies. | Attended classes and exercises. | |||
| Learning objectives | ||||
| The basic direction within the course is to develop the students' ability to use as many adequate elements of beautiful and creative writing as possible in the construction of media form and in the preparation of media content, and through the balance of factography and description and with the adequate application of stylistic figures, the focalization procedure, the third-person angle, online stories and more. | ||||
| Learning outcomes | ||||
| Students will have the opportunity to hear about the importance of the journalist-writer's writing skills through favoring details, originality and dynamics, and about the need to use different hybrid and literary forms of content writing in literary journalism. Students will be able to distinguish journalistic narration from literary literature in the form of a story, but they will also have the opportunity to understand that literary journalism is a humanized and aestheticized form of modern journalism that improves writing techniques in journalism by approaching literature. | ||||
| Content | ||||
| The meaning of the term narrative journalism (theoretical approaches: Svetlana Aleksijević, Ana Politkovskaja, Rudolf G. Wagner, Pedro Rosa Mendesa, Walt Harington, Norman Sims, Sonja Parat, Jean Witt, Jos Kejtner) 2. Narration in journalistic nonfiction (Hartsok, Šadson, first wave in the 19th century) 3. Edvard Scripps and orientation towards "small stories" 4. Subjectivity in narrative forms of writing; Tom Wolfe in narrative journalism 5. The second wave of narrative journalism (Norman Mailer, John Fante and Joan Didion) 6. Truman Capote's narrative journalism and Bob Bjeker's journalism 7. The influence of the documentary novel and film on literary journalism 8. The Mayl-Moore phenomenon and gonzo 9 Short story forms; reportage, first-person reportage, essay, novellas, feuilletons, memoirs, memoir sub-style. 10. Essay on the Internet and narration in online media (Milivoj Anđelkoivć) 11. Film and narrative journalism 12. Literary forms in journalism - autobiography and biography 13. Time context, development of characters, accumulation of hybrid elements, significance of the scene, false third person, unconventional forms and focalization in narration 14. Narration in online media 15. Concept of fame, celebrities and specificity of narrative in so-called reality shows. | ||||
| Teaching Methods | ||||
| Classes and exercises are conducted using different teaching methods and approaches. In addition to the application of ex cathedra frontal teaching, methods are also used: involvement and interaction, discussions in small groups - panel discussions and simulations of study problems, content analysis and student research - independently and in groups. | ||||
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| Evaluation and grading | ||||
| Students' knowledge is tested through a colloquium (2), writing of independent student papers and a final oral exam. | ||||
| Specific remarks | ||||
| N20-46 | ||||