Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminar | 11 x 2 Hour Seminars |
Workshop | 11 x 2 Hour Workshops |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | Submission of 2 x 3000 word essays | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmission of failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
1. Locate and discuss Welsh Writing in English in its cultural and historical contexts;
2. Assess the influence of linguistic, economic, social and political factors on literary texts.
3. Examine the tensions inherent in the cultural programme of Welsh Writing in English.
4. Examine the way in which these texts interrorgate issues of class, gender and national/linguistic identity.
5. Writ about literary texts in a critically-focused and well-structured manner.
Brief description
This module introdcues students to the vigorous and diverse tradition of Welsh writing in English that flourished during the twentieth century. It explores the ways in which Welsh writers engage with issues of class, gender, race, and sexuality, and traces the dialogues that unfold between Wales's two linguistic cultures. Particular attention is paid to representations of places and lanscapes - from industrial south Wales to the holy island of Enlli - in an effort to understand the intertwining of geography and history in much Welsh writing in English. Throughout the module, students will be encouraged to examine the ambivalent relationships between literature and national identity. At the same time, a key objective of this module is to give students a clearer and more nuanced understanding of what makes Welsh writing in English distinctive in the wider field of Anglophone literatures. A wide variety of literary forms and genres are considered, including poetry, novels and short stories, and memoir.
Content
Week 1: Introduction: Caradoc Evans, My People
Week 2: Poetry 1: Dylan Thomas
Week 3: Poetry 2: David Jones; Lynette Roberts
Week 4: Gwyn Thomas, The Alone to the Along
Week 5: Brenda Chamberlain, Tide-race
Week 6: Poetry 3: R.S. Thomas
Week 7: Christopher Meredith, Shifts
Week 8: Poetry 4: Rught Bidgood; Christine Evans; Robert Minhinnick
Week 9: Charlote Williams, Sugar and Slate
Week 10: Revision Session
All of the poems for discussion can be found in Meic Stephens (ed), Poetry 1900-2000: One Hundred Poets from Wales (see Reading List). A module reader containing supplementary texts and critical essays will also be supplied to students at the start of the module.
Module Skills
Skills Type | Skills details |
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Application of Number | N/A |
Communication | Written communication in the form of essays. Oral preentations in small groups. Oral communication in semesters. |
Improving own Learning and Performance | Developing own research skills. Time management, |
Information Technology | Use of electronic resources and e-learning technologies (electronic databases and blackboard learn). Power point for group presentations. |
Personal Development and Career planning | Critical self-reflection. Development of transferable communication and research skills. |
Problem solving | Formulating and devloping an arguement |
Research skills | Formulating and devloping an arguement |
Subject Specific Skills | Ability to compare and contrast texts; ability to comment on the relationship between society and literary forms. |
Team work | Group work for oral presentations. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6