Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Assessment EITHER a 2500 word essay or a 1500 word creative response piece with a 1000 word commentary. | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Assessment EITHER a 2500 word essay or a 1500 word creative response piece with a 1000 word commentary. | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Discuss queer writing from a range of periods in an historically and conceptually sound, focussed and coherent manner.
Situate literary texts in the context of queer history and queer theory.
Articulate key conceptual issues in queer theory in relation to literary texts.
Brief description
This module explores queer writing from Classical Antiquity through to the current day. It offers students a tour of LGBTQI+ writing from Plato to the contemporary queer small press 'poetry mainfesto', taking in the canonical - Shakespeare, Rossetti, Behn - and the less well known, travelling through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 18th and 19th and 20th centuries. The module asks students to engage with the implications of the different cultural and political contexts each author operated in, and to think about how we can talk about sexual and gender identities using contemporary concepts of identity, introducing students to both relevant historical context and broader historiographical questions about how we read the past.
Aims
This module aims to develop students’ understanding of the beginnings and developments of the Queer writing, and allow them to put it into its historical, political and aesthetic context by introducing them to a wide range of texts from different periods.
Content
Week 2: Queer Classics: a selection from 300000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World (eds. Sean Hewitt and Luke Edward Hall)
Week 3: Queer Classics week 2
Week 4: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance. Trans. Sarah Roche-Mahdi
Week 5: Queer Shakespeare
Week 6: She finds her soul: Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn
Week 7: Vathek. William Beckford
Week 8:"lucent of all lovely mysteries": Michael Field, Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson
Week 9: Giovanni's Room. James Baldwin
Week 10: Prayers, Manifestos, Bravery. Verity Spott
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Co-ordinating with others | Students will take part in group work and group discussion and problem solving. |
| Creative Problem Solving | Students will be invited to develop their own ideas through seminar discussion and assessed written work. |
| Critical and analytical thinking | Students will engage critically with a range of philosophical, historical, political and aesthetic issues and be invited to develop their own ideas through seminar discussion and their written work. |
| Digital capability | Students will be required to use BlackBoard, Aspire and Turnitin, and might also engage with online textual databases. |
| Professional communication | Students will develop their professional communication through seminar discussion and written work. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Students will be introduced to texts from a wide range of periods, allowing them to develop confidence and knowledge of earlier work. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 4