Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Essay 1 x 3000 word essay | 70% |
| Semester Exam | Individual Oral Presentation 10 minutes individual oral presentation | 30% |
| Supplementary Exam | Individual Oral Presentation Individual Oral Assessment 10 Minutes | 30% |
| Supplementary Exam | Essay Resubmit 1 x 3000 word essay (writing on a fresh topic from previous essay submitted) | 70% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Locate and discuss Welsh poetry in English in its cultural and historical contexts;
Assess the influence of linguistic, economic, social and political factors on literary texts;
Examine the tensions inherent in the cultural programme of Welsh poetry in English;
Examine the way in which these texts interrogate issues of class, gender and national/ linguistic identity;
Write confidently and fluently about the texts on the module in a focused and conceptually nuanced manner.
Brief description
This module introduces students to the vigorous and diverse tradition of Welsh poetry in English that flourished during the twentieth century. Organised chronologically, it engages with key publications, important moments of collective creative energy, and significant individual writers in the life of Anglophone Welsh poetry since 1900. It explores the ways in which Welsh poets writing in English have engaged with defining issues such as class, gender, and place. Throughout the module, students will be encouraged to examine the ambivalent relationships between poetry 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 poetry in English distinctive in the wider field of Anglophone literatures.
Content
Week 2 - Poetry of the First Flowering (1930s & 1940s)
Week 3 - Readings from Dylan Thomas’s Selected Poems
Week 4 - Writing out of war: selections from David Jones’s In Parenthesis (1937)
Week 5 - From energy to decline: the 1940s to the 1950s
Week 6 - The early work of R.S. Thomas
Week 7 - The Second Flowering: key figures of the 1960s
Week 8 - New poets of the 1970s and 1980s
Week 9 - Welsh poetry in English in the final decade of the twentieth century
Week 10 - Revision session; assessment advice
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | N/A |
| Communication | Written: By developing a sustained critical argument. Oral: Through class discussion, small group exercises, and individual oral presentations |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Through independent and directed research and reading |
| Information Technology | By using word-processing packages; using AberLearn Blackboard and other e-resources to research and access course documents and other materials; by submitting assignments via Turnitin. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Through increased critical self-reflection and the development of transferable, ICT, communication and research skills. |
| Problem solving | By evaluative analysis and the use of critical skills |
| Research skills | By directed and independent research; by synthesizing information in an evaluative critical argument. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Through the reading, writing and researching skills involved in the interrogation of literary texts; through comparative models of reading and understanding; and through the conceptual/theoretical analysis of works of imaginative literature in relation to a range of other non-literary texts. |
| Team work | Through group work in seminars; and through preparation for paired presentations in seminars. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6