Ioana Pârvulescu

Curriculum

Feuilleton novel in three episodes

By Ioana Pârvulescu

The goal of the course:

  - To use the word at its full potential

  - To use all its nuances

  - To use the right word at the right place and at the right time.

The positive character: the Creative Word

The negative character: the Destructive Word

Episode no. 1: The word is Creative

  a. GAMES

• “the grammar of fantasy”
• When the muses amuse themselves
• A little bit of etymology
• Faithful and unfaithful lexical pairs

  b. FROM WORD TO CREATION

• Creation types
• Creation tricks
• Humor, irony,
• Hints, undercurrents
• The tone makes the “music”

Episode no.2: The word is Destructive

  a. THE BUREAUCRATESE

• How to recognize it
• What consequences it has
• How to avoid it
• Romanian  vs. other languages

  b. CURRENT ERRORS

• orthography, punctuation,
• accents
• mot-a-mot translations and  barbarisms
• hypercorrectness and preciosity  
• “the fool’s luck”

Episode no. 3: The Denouement

   a. WHAT’S IT GOOD AT?

• e-mail, usual or very important letters
• the ad
• esthetical conventions
• beginning and END

   b. THE STYLE IS THE MAN

• figures of style and artistic procedures
• Stylistic prints
• The Creative Writing Decalogue

HAPPY END