Module Identifier
ENM6320
Module Title
WRITING AS A WOMAN: NINETEENTH CENTURY POETRY
Academic Year
2008/2009
Co-ordinator
Dr Richard J Marggraf-Turley
Semester
Intended for use in future years
Co-Requisite
ENM0120
Co-Requisite
3 other MA option modules
Co-Requisite
ENM0220

Course Delivery

Delivery Type Delivery length / details
Seminars / Tutorials 2 Hours. 5 x 2 hour seminars using a workshop format with interactive teaching and group work
 

Assessment

Assessment Type Assessment length / details Proportion
Semester Assessment 1 X 5000 word essay 
Supplementary Assessment Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected. 

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module students should typically be able to:

1. demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of a range of poetry by Victorian women writers;

2. demonstrate an ability to discuss the difficulties and advantages of treating the work of 'women poets' as a separate category of poetry;

3. demonstrate an understanding of some of the ways in which traditionally male forms of poetry are used by women poets;

4. demonstrate an ability to express themselves clearly in writing and in speech.

Brief description

This module wil consider the difficulties specific to women poets in the Victorian period, and will consider the literary strategies that a range of women poets used to overcome such problems. Students will consider the subject matters and forms traditionally available to women poets, and the difficulties that they faced in writing about politics or sexuality, or, indeed, about their own lives as poets

Aims

This module aims:

1. to introduce students to a range of poetry by Victorian women writers, some of which has long been accepted into the canon, and some of which still has marginal status;

2. to discuss the difficulties and advantages of treating 'women poets' as a category separate from mainstream poetry;

3. to develop an understanding of the ways in which traditionally male forms, such as the sonnet, can be used and subverted to suit the needs of women writers.

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 7