Module Information
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 2 hours, of which 1hr will be conducted as a discussion-based literature seminar, one as a practice-based 'workshop' drawing on the relevant literary texts. |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | 1 x 3000 word essay | 50% |
Semester Assessment | 1 x 3000 word creative writing portfolio to include a commentary of 750-1000 words | 50% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit failed and/or make good any missing elements | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a detailed knowledge of a range of Welsh Writing in english from 2000-present day;
2. articulate this knowledge in the form of reasoned critical analysis of particular texts
3. locate the texts studied in appropriate literary, historical and cultural contexts;
4. explain, and engage with, relevant aspects of recent scholarly and/or critical debates about the texts studies;
5. produce informed and creative work drawing on the stylistic and/or thematic features of the texts studies.
Content
Urban/noir: eg. Sheepshagger, Aberystwyth Mon Amour
Landscape and ecology: eg. The Claude Glass, Sheepshagger
Memory and childhood: eg. The Hiding Place, Sugar and Slate, The Claude Glass
Documentary/lifewriting: eg. Dial M for Merthyr, Blue Sky July, Sugar and Slate
Developments in poetry: The Pterodactyl's Wing (two seminars)
Developments in the short story: Urban Welsh, Wales Half Welsh (two seminars)
Myth and cultural inheritance: eg. Mr Vogel, The Pterodactyl's Wing
Brief description
This module focuses on the field of contemporary Welsh writing in English, but in a new interdisciplinary way that encourages the students to offer their own creative interventions and academic analysis of a broad range of thematic concerns relating to contemporary Welsh identity. We look at poetry, non-fiction, novels and short stories published in the last eight years, exploring the factors that shape both the prescribed texts and the students' own work, and encouraging a multi-faceted approach to the texts. In identifying these factors, we will ask students to analyse what they understand by "Welshness", how it is understood in society and how tensions around issues of language and identity/otherness have evolved in contemporary writing, especially since devolution. The module asks students to look at how these factors shape the works discussed and how, in turn, the prescribed texts and the students' individual responses, creative and critical, respond to the particular challenges the debates present.
Aims
We hope to invite some of the authors whose texts are represented on the module to visit the department.
Module Skills
Skills Type | Skills details |
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Application of Number | n/a |
Communication | Written communication in the form of essays or portfolio or whatever the module contains. (Oral presentation, if applicable) Oral communication in seminars |
Improving own Learning and Performance | Use of electronic resources (discussion board and use of online media resources), production of written work |
Information Technology | Use of electronic resources (discussion board and use of online media resources), production of written work |
Personal Development and Career planning | No, except insofar as this module is related to a research, academic or writing career |
Problem solving | Formulating and developing an extended argument |
Research skills | Developing advanced study |
Subject Specific Skills | Detailed critical/ theoretical analysis of literary texts and evaluation of broad theoretical concepts. |
Team work | n/a |
Reading List
Recommended TextAzzopardi, Trezza (2000) The Hiding Place Picador Primo search Bullough, Tom (2007) The Claude Glass Seren Primo search Davies, Lewis (2005) Urban Welsh: New Welsh Short Fiction Parthian Primo search Griffiths, Niall (2001) Sheepshagger Jonathan Cape Primo search Gwyn, Richard (2001) The Pterodactyl's Wing: Welsh World Poetry Parthian Primo search Jones, Lloyd (2004) Mr vogel Seren Primo search Pryce, Malcolm (2001) Abeerystwyth Mon Amour Bloomsbury Primo search Tresize, Rachel (2006) Diam M for Merthyr Parthian Primo search Williams, Charlotte (2002) Sugar and Slate Planet Primo search Williams, John (2004) Wales Half Welsh Bloomsbury Primo search Supplementary Text
Bohata, Kirsti (2004) Postcolonialism Revisited: Writing in Wales in English University of Wales Press Primo search Gregson, Ian (2007) The New Poetry of Wales University of Wales Press Primo search Jarvis, Matthew, Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry (2008) University of Wales Press Knight, Stephen (2004) A Hundred Years of Fiction University of Wales Press Primo search Peach, Linden (2007) Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction University of Wales Press Primo search New Welsh Review Primo search Planet Primo search Poetry Wales Primo search Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays Primo search
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6