XII. Course Descriptions
English
School of English and Theatre Studies
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ENGL*1080 and ENGL*2080 provide a strong foundation for English studies at the University level and are required courses for students intending to major or minor in English. These linked courses expose students not only to a broad range of texts from different countries and historical periods but also to some of the exciting developments in the discipline.
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Honours major students are required to take the seminar courses ENGL*2120, ENGL*2130, ENGL*3940, ENGL*3960, preferably in their 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th semesters. ENGL*1080 is a pre-requisite to ENGL*2120 and ENGL*2130; ENGL*2080 is a pre-requisite to ENGL*3940 and ENGL*3960.
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Honours major students are required to take two 4000-level seminars, preferably in their 7th and 8th semesters. The prerequisites for the 4000-level seminars are ENGL*2080 plus one of ENGL*2120, ENGL*2130 plus one of ENGL*3940, ENGL*3960.
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Honours minor students are required to take the seminar course ENGL*2120 and one of ENGL*2130, ENGL*3940, ENGL*3960, preferably in their 3rd to 6th semester.
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Many English lecture courses are offered on alternate years only and many English seminars have variable content. For more information, students should consult the School's home page at http://www.arts.uoguelph.ca/sets/.
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Many English lecture courses are reading-intensive while seminar courses are writing and presentation-intensive. Honours major students are advised to take two lectures and one seminar per semester beginning in their 3rd semester.
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WRITING- AND PRESENTATION-INTENSIVE: Seminars emphasize written and oral work to help students develop the critical reading and writing skills essential to their learning throughout the curriculum.
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READING-INTENSIVE: Lectures emphasize breadth of reading, contexts, and comparisons, to help students develop the knowledge base essential to their understanding of the field. In order to allow essay-writing to be concentrated in seminars, assignments in lecture courses will not predominantly take the traditional essay form but a range of other formats.
| ENGL*1080 Literatures in English I: Reading the Past F,W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course is focused on the disciplinary skill of close reading and is intended for students planning to specialize in the study of English Literature. Through a series of case studies, the course introduces students to a range of historical and national writings in prose, poetry, and drama, and to some of the key terms and concepts in contemporary literary studies. Lectures and discussions address selected works from the Middle Ages onwards, the periods in which these works were produced, and some of the ways in which these texts have been or could be interpreted. ENGL*1080 and its companion course, ENGL*2080, are required for a major or minor in English. Students are encouraged to enrol in ENGL*2080 in the semester after they have completed ENGL*1080. Reading - and writing-intensive course. | |
| Equate(s): | ENGL*1060 |
| Restriction(s): | Registration in the English major, minor or area of concentration, or in semesters one or two of the BA or BAS program. |
| ENGL*1200 Reading the Contemporary World F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
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| This course, which is designed primarily for those not planning a specialization in English, introduces students to literary texts and persuasive forms of writing, bringing to the fore some of the links between language and contemporary social and political issues. Course materials will represent diversity in terms of national origins, gender, race, and class. The course emphasizes the use of figurative language as well as the development of students' critical reading and writing skills. Students planning to major or minor or pursue an area of concentration in English must take ENGL*1080 and ENGL*2080, but may also take ENGL*1200 and count it as an elective lecture. (Also offered in distance education format.) |
| ENGL*1410 Major Writers U (3-0) [0.50] |
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| This course, which is designed primarily for those not planning a specialization in English, offers an introduction to the study of literature through a chronological consideration of works by selected major authors from the Middle Ages to the present century, in relation to their social, intellectual and literary backgrounds. The course emphasizes the use of figurative language as well as the development of students' critical reading and writing skills. Students planning to major or minor or pursue an area of concentration in English must take ENGL*1080 and ENGL*2080, but may also take ENGL*1410. |
| ENGL*2040 Latina/o Literature and Cultural Production: Intro F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This survey course introduces students to the terms, methodologies, and debates that form the interdisciplinary critical practice of Latina/o Studies. The course takes a pan-Latina/o approach to the study of English-language and cultural production by various Latina/os primarily in the U.S. Because different Latina/o groups have been concentrated in particular U.S. regions and cities, the approach allows students to study how Latina/o literature and art have shaped the politics and culture of different regions and cities. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1 of THST*1040, ENGL*1080, ENGL*1200 |
| ENGL*2080 Literatures in English II: Finding a Critical Voice F,W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course revisits the historical, national, and genre sweep of ENGL*1080 by conducting a range of specific, more in-depth studies of particular works (including some of the texts examined in ENGL*1080) in their historical moments. Seminars help students to develop a range of critical approaches through oral presentations and essay-writing. Students are encouraged to enrol in ENGL*2080 in the semester after they have completed ENGL*1080. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*1080 |
| Equate(s): | ENGL*2060 |
| ENGL*2120 Seminar: Critical Practices F,W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course guides students through a range of critical approaches and explores their implications for readings of a limited number of literary texts. The seminar's main areas of concentration are: (1) close reading, centering on the way a particular poem, work of fiction, or play works in its details and overall structure; (2) critical approaches and methodologies; (3) critical writing and discussion. (Choices of approaches and texts will be determined by individual instructors.) Writing- and presentation-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*1080 |
| ENGL*2130 Seminar: Literature and Social Change F,W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course explores the social and cultural work that literary texts perform. Seminars will illuminate such categories as gender, sexuality, nation, race, ethnicity, and class; particular ways in which they are written into a limited number of literary works; and some of the critical debates surrounding our interpretations of those processes. (Choices of approaches and texts will be determined by individual instructors.) Writing- and presentation-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*1080 |
| ENGL*2190 Representation and Sexuality W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This variable-content course offers a historically grounded introduction to the critical study of sexuality and representation in literature and related media. The course may engage with a specific time-period or genre, or it may concentrate directly on the problem of theorizing sexual difference in relation to other literary and cultural forces. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1 of ENGL*1080, ENGL*1200, ENGL*1410, WMST*1000 |
| ENGL*2200 Postcolonial Literatures F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course introduces significant issues, perspectives, and voices within the study of the postcolonial literatures in English. The course may include literature from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India and the Pacific. Reading-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*1080 or ENGL*1200 |
| ENGL*2230 Popular Genres F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This variable-content course introduces students to the focused study of a selected popular genre of literature, film, or other related media. The course explores the emergence and development of the popular genre chosen for that semester's study, such as science fiction, detective fiction, romance, the western, film noir, or the fairy tale; diverse critical approaches to the genre; and some meanings of the term "popular". Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1 of ENGL*1080, ENGL*1200, ENGL*1410 |
| ENGL*2550 North American Native Literatures W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course explores selected issues, perspectives, and voices within the study of Native literatures and their contexts in North America. One purpose of the course is to raise questions about the meaning of the U.S. - Canadian border for Native writers. Reading-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*1080 or ENGL*1200 |
| ENGL*2640 Culture, Location, Identity: Minoritized Literatures in Canada and Beyond F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course will open up debates around emergent issues, perspectives, and voices in the literatures of minoritized cultures particularly within the North American context. Questions about the meanings of various borders for understanding Canadian negotiations of identity, culture, and location will remain a consistent feature of this variable content course. Reading-intensive course. (Also offered in distance education format.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*1080 or ENGL*1200 |
| ENGL*2740 Children's Literature F,W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course serves as an introduction to the critical study of children's literature and culture. Focusing on selected genres of, issues in, or theoretical approaches to literature for children, this variable-content course explores shifting (and often conflicting) conceptions of childhood, in general, and of children as readers and cultural consumers. Reading-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1 of ENGL*1080, ENGL*1200, ENGL*1410 |
| ENGL*2880 Women in Literature W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This variable-content course will involve the study and discussion of poems, stories, novels and plays by or about women. Reading-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1 of ENGL*1080, ENGL*1200, ENGL*1410, WMST*1000 |
| ENGL*2920 Creative Writing: Fiction U (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| An introduction to creative writing through practical experiment, discussion, and the technical examination of models. Since admission to the course depends on the approval of the instructor, students must submit examples of their work to the instructor prior to registration. This course will be offered annually in either Fall or Winter. Check with the School. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*1080 or ENGL*1200 |
| Restriction(s): | Instructor consent required. |
| ENGL*2940 Creative Writing: Poetry U (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| As for ENGL*2920. (Note especially that students must submit examples of their work to the instructor prior to registration.) This course will be offered annually in either Fall or Winter. Check with the School. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*1080 or ENGL*1200 |
| Restriction(s): | Instructor consent required. |
| ENGL*3020 Shakespearean Contexts F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| A study of a selection of Shakespeare's plays and poems in conjunction with a wide range of other texts. These may include, at the instructor's choice, 'source' narratives, subsequent adaptations, and plays and poems by predecessors or contemporaries, as well as other writings that shed light upon discursive contexts, performance practices, authorial and playhouse revision, issues of gender and subjectivity, and the reception of these plays by early modern audiences and readers. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English or (THST*2010, THST*2120) |
| ENGL*3040 U.S. Latina/o Literature F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course focuses on an English-language literature of a particular Latina/o community (e.g. Chicana/os, Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans) in the United States. Students will be introduced to theoretical approaches and a wide range of genres, including narrative fiction, autobiography, literary journalism, and poetry. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | (1 of THST*1040, ENGL*1080, ENGL*1200), ENGL*2040 |
| ENGL*3080 History of the English Language U (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course introduces the key historical developments of the English language and the primary tools for the study of language. Topics to be discussed may include: the origins of and precursors to the English language; the phonology, lexicon, and grammar of English; the persistence of language change; the historical factors that affect language change; the origins and implications of language variety; the formation of prestige dialects; and the current state of the English language in Canada and the world. Reading-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3120 Shakespearean Receptions F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| The course will examine a selection of Shakespeare's plays and poems in the light of contemporary reassessments of his place in the canon. For purposes of comparison, plays by contemporaries of Shakespeare may also be studied along with adaptations of Shakespeare chosen from a number of different historical contexts. Close readings of these texts will be organized around such topics as Shakespearean adaptations, constructions of gender and subjectivity, Shakespeare and canon-formation, Shakespeare and critical theory, the politics of Shakespearean interpretation, Shakespeare in contemporary media culture, and changing performance practices. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English or (THST*2010, THST*2120) |
| ENGL*3170 Elizabethan Literary Culture: Chastity and Power W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course examines the literary culture associated with Elizabeth I. Issues, including gender and sexuality, power, and religion, will be explored through a wide range of sixteenth- and early-seventeenth century poems (these will be chosen from such writers as Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Mary Stuart, the Sidneys, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Raleigh, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Elizabeth I, Jonson, Donne, and Herbert). Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3180 Colonial Encounters: Nation and Discovery W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course examines writings concerning, or alluding to, English (and other European) encounters with new worlds and different cultures. These will include accounts of travel, conquest, and colonization written or collected by such writers as Bernal Diaz, Luis de Camoës, Columbus, Hakluyt, Raleigh, Harriot, Drake, and Bradford; essays by writers such as Las Casas, Spenser, and Montaigne; and plays, poems, and prose such as Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Shakespeare's The Tempest, Jonson, Chapman, and Marston's Eastward Ho, parts of Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marvell's "Bermudas", and Behn's Oronooko: or the Royal Slave. Key intertexts to these writings will also be studied, along with relevant aspects of postcolonial theory. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3190 Poetics and Politics in Early Modern England F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course examines the intimate connections between poetics and politics in Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Civil War and Commonwealth literature. The texts to be studied may include plays and poems, as well as essays, political, historical, and theological writings, and works of prose fiction. Close readings of these texts will focus on such issues as kingship, transgression, rhetoric, religion, rights, and the relation between political subjection and literary subjectivity; the literary contributions will be studied in the light of a range of different approaches. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3220 Representing Britain: 18th- & 19th- Century Literature F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course explores selected topics in the interrelation of literature and politics from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century in Britain. Areas of focus may include: the literature of civil war, constitutionalism and revolution; satire and society; writings emerging from sufferage reform and agitation, the colonization of Ireland, the construction of political subjectivity, political paranoia, conspiracy and sedition. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3230 Literary Culture and the English Civil War W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course will examine key literary figures and texts in the period leading up to and including the English Civil War (1623-1660). Literary contributions to the political and religious struggles of the period will be studied in the light of a range of different approaches. Primary readings will be selected from among the works of such writers as Milton, Marvell, Charles I, Hobbes, Coppe, Winstanly, Everard, Katherine Philips, Jonson, Webster, Middleton, and Massinger. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3260 Writing Gender & Family: 18th- and 19th- Century Literature W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course will explore texts which engage with such matters as the shifting constructions of the family, changing sexual practices, ideals of femininity and masculinity, and the significance of the separation of spheres in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing. Focal points may include: the role of desire in narrative; literary representations of gender and economics, of gender and medicine, and of pivotal figures such as the prostitute, the governess, the rake, or the gentleman. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3280 Old English Literature U (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course will focus on the language, literature, and culture of Anglo-Saxon England (7th to 11th centuries). In addition to acquiring the basics of Old English and engaging in translation exercises with passages from Anglo-Saxon texts, students will read a selection of texts in modern English translation; these may include Beowulf, "The Battle of Maldon", elegies such as "The Seafarer", riddling poems and religious poems. (Offered in alternate years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3300 Restoration to Romanticism: Forging the Nation F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| Drawing upon a range of literary texts from a variety of genres, this course will explore the politics of language and style in a series of cultural debates that shaped British national character from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries. Selected topics may include: literary representations of religious establishment and dissent; the division of power; the question of minority cultures; revolution and reaction; the problem of economic stability. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3320 Romanticism to Victorianism: Culture and Conformity F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course explores the key texts in various genres of British cultural debates of the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Focal points may include: literary representations of family and society; science and narrative; Britain's "others"; class and conflict; protest and power; the roots of modernism; European influences. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3340 British Imperial Culture F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This multi-genre course introduces students to the literature of British imperialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The course will consider the changing relationship between nation, empire, and colony by examining literary representations of such topics as: orientalism; travel writing; the construction of race; the representation of trade; the popular literature of empire; children's literature; the question of the other. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3360 Scottish Literary Cultures F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course explores selected issues and ideas within this national literature, from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, but with a primary focus on literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Special attention is given to issues relating to nationhood, identity, religion, colonialism, gender, and class in relation to selected examples from literary texts and folktales. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) (Also offered in distance education format.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3370 Narrative Modes: 18th- and 19th-Century Literature W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course offers comparative study of narrative structures, which includes selections from such genres as poetry, fiction, biography, autobiography and specialized discourses. Focal points may include romance; the gothic; the novel of sensibility; the realist novel; sensation fiction; the discourses of medicine and science. Reading intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3380 Studies in the History of Literary Production W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course will examine a range of issues arising from the materiality of book production and circulation. Topics may include serialization; mass production and circulation; patronage; reviewing; circulating libraries; licensing; censorship; children's literature; periodicals; gift books; letters; and other aspects of publishing and the public sphere. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3420 20th- & 21st-Century Drama W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course offers a selective study of 20th- and/or 21st-century play-scripts written in English. Students are advised to consult the web-descriptions for the particular focus of the course's offering. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English or (THST*2010, THST*2120) |
| ENGL*3450 Early Twentieth-Century Drama F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course considers contexts for the development of play-scripts written in English during the first part of the twentieth century. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English or (THST*2010, THST*2120) |
| ENGL*3460 Literature in London U (2-3) [0.50] | |
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| A study of British literature in its social and historical context. Reading of particular works will be supplemented by visits to sites of literary interest, the use of special library and museum collections, and attendance at public lectures and performances. For London Semester students only. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | Admission to the London Semester. |
| ENGL*3470 Twentieth-Century British Literature I W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This multigenre course explores aesthetic and socio-cultural movements (including modernism) in British literature from the turn of the century to mid-century. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3480 Twentieth-Century British Literature II F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This multigenre course explores aesthetic and socio-cultural movements (including postmodernism) in British literature from mid-century to the present. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3540 Writing the United States W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This multigenre course explores the relationship between literary production and political power from the emergence of U.S. culture through the long nineteenth century. Areas of focus may include national fantasy; the literatures of war, imperial expansion, captivity, and genocide; narratives of race and immigration; the cult of domesticity; and the rise of mass culture. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3550 Modern United States Literatures W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This multigenre course explores powerful examples of modern United States literatures, from about the First World War to the present. The selection is wide, including both traditional and experimental forms; female and male writers from various ethnic and racial groups; and a range of cultural issues. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3560 Medieval Literature W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course will introduce students to a range of medieval texts written in English and other languages and will explore the contexts of their composition and transmission. The texts to be studied may include histories, lais, lyrics, sagas, saints’ lives, romances, miracle stories, fabliaux, play cycles, and others. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3570 Chaucer in Context F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course will introduce students to significant aspects of Chaucer's writing read in the context of works by Chaucer's precursors and near contemporaries. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3630 Writing Canada: Forging the Nation W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This multigenre course focuses on Canadian literature to World War One, examining cultural contestation in the Canadian settler colony among the Canadian, U.S., British, and indigenous peoples. Topics may include the rise of nationalist discourse, race and nation, landscape and the sublime, gothic, sentimental, and historical fiction, children's literature, slavery and resistance narratives, travel and captivity narratives. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3660 Canadian Poetry W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course is an introductory study of Canadian poetry, in a variety of national and international contexts. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-number years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3670 Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature and Criticism F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This multigenre course examines formations of, and resistances to, ideas of national consciousness and cultural identity in Canadian literature and criticism in English from the beginnings of the twentieth century to the 1960s. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3680 20th- & 21st-Century Canadian Literature and Criticism F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course examines Canadian literature and criticism in English, since the 1960s, in relation to a variety of social, cultural, and historical contexts. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3690 History of Literary Criticism F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course introduces students to the major critics and texts formative in the development of an English critical tradition. The study will begin with Plato and Aristotle, and proceed from the Renaissance through to modernist critical theory. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3740 United States Imperial Culture F (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This multigenre course will introduce students to a period of intense cultural struggle in the United States, from the Civilular to the First World War (i.e. from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries). Topics for consideration may include the literary representation of race, civil war, and empire; machine and mass culture; emergent literatures and changing constituencies of American citizenship. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3750 Studies in Postcolonial Literatures W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course is a concentrated study in a major sub-area of postcolonial literature. Specific topics will vary each year, but may involve focus on a particular genre or region such as Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, and the Pacific. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3760 Atlantic and Mediterranean Worlds W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| A variable content course aimed at considering the intercultural effects which emerge from transnational, colonial, imperial, and/or diasporic relations, through literatures in English addressing the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and contiguous lands. Texts will be selected from among the rich array of poetry, fiction, memoirs, letters, travel accounts, period histories and ethnographies, autobiographies and folkloric records that formed the literary culture of this period. Attention may be paid to diverse forms of oral and written expression, linguistic changes, the Creole continuum, the evolution of national and racial stereotypes, and religious syncretism. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.) | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3860 Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies U (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| These variable-content courses provide opportunities for topics in cross-period studies, inter- and transdisciplinary studies and cultural studies, among others that are not available in regular offerings. Consult the School for specific offerings in a given semester. Reading-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3870 Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies U (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| These variable-content courses provide opportunities for topics in cross-period studies, inter- and transdisciplinary studies and cultural studies, among others that are not available in regular offerings. Consult the School for specific offerings in a given semester. Reading-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3880 Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies U (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| These variable-content courses provide opportunities for topics in cross-period studies, inter- and transdisciplinary studies and cultural studies, among others that are not available in regular offerings. Consult the School for specific offerings in a given semester. Reading-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | 1.00 credits in English. |
| ENGL*3940 Seminar: Form, Genre, and Literary Value F,W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This seminar focuses on textual conventions such as form, style, and genre as they inform the interaction between reader and text. The impact of these conventions on the processes of literary production, reception, the production of meaning, and the assessment of literary value will be explored in relation to a limited number of literary works. (Choice of focus and texts to be determined by individual instructors.) Writing- and presentation-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080 |
| ENGL*3960 Seminar: Literature in History F,W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course explores the processes by which specific texts or genres emerge from particular historical moments and by which we attempt to reconstruct those historically specific connections. Seminars will focus on such topics as the archive surrounding one text, problems of period and canon, or genres and historical change. (Choice of period and texts will be determined by individual instructors.)Writing- and presentation-intensive course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080 |
| ENGL*4240 Medieval & Early Modern Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of British literature from the beginnings to 1660. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English majors; ENGL*4040 |
| ENGL*4250 18th- & 19th-C Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of British literature from 1660 to 1900. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English majors; ENGL*4050 |
| ENGL*4270 United States Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of United States literatures. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English majors; ENGL*4070 |
| ENGL*4280 Canadian Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of Canadian literatures. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English majors; ENGL*4080 |
| ENGL*4310 Special Studies in English U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| A seminar designed to provide students in semesters 7 and 8 with an opportunity to pursue studies in an area or areas of language or literature not available in other courses. The course may be taught by a visiting professor or members of the school. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English majors; ENGL*4100; ENGL*4110 |
| ENGL*4320 Special Studies in English U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| A seminar designed to provide students in semesters 7 and 8 with an opportunity to pursue studies in an area or areas of language or literature not available in other courses. The course may be taught by a visiting professor or members of the school. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English majors; ENGL*4100; ENGL*4110 |
| ENGL*4400 Postcolonial Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| This course provides the opportunity for intensive study of a representative selection of literature in English by writers from Africa, India, the Caribbean, Australia, and the Pacific. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English majors; ENGL*4200 |
| ENGL*4410 Modern & Contemporary Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| This course provides the opportunity for a study of significant works in fiction, poetry, and drama that demonstrate new approaches in form and content characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century writings in English. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English majors; ENGL*4210 |
| ENGL*4420 Women's Writings U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| This course provides for intensive study of issues relating to the aesthetic strategies, such as those associated with structure, imagery, and language, devised by women writers to reflect women's experience and perceptions. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English and Women's Studies majors; ENGL*4210. |
| ENGL*4500 Non-fiction Prose U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| This course offers an intensive study of non-fiction prose. Topics to be explored may include the roles and contexts of public and/or private writing, the role of literary criticism in reading texts sometimes marked as non-literary, the history of non-fictional prose forms, or the formal or ideological uses of the distinctions between fact and fiction. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English majors; ENGL*4300 |
| ENGL*4720 Creative Writing: Prose/Poetry U (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| A development and extension of the creative writing/reading skills and techniques introduced in ENGL*2920 and ENGL*2940. This course will involve the generation and revision of challenging new work, sophisticated critique of the work of other students, and focused discussion of the cultural, social, and political issues in which the practice of creative writing is enmeshed. Admission to the course is normally dependent on the successful completion of ENGL*2920 or ENGL*2940 and, following the submission of a portfolio of new work, the approval of the instructor. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2920 or ENGL*2940 |
| Restriction(s): | Instructor consent required. |
| ENGL*4810 Directed Reading S,F,W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| This course is intended particularly as preparation for ENGL*4910. The student will design a course of readings and assignments with the instructor, whose consent must first be obtained. This option is intended only for students who have performed particularly well within the honours program. Exceptional students may take ENGL*4810 in preparation for a ENGL*4910 creative writing project, on the approval of the instructor. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Instructor consent required. |
| ENGL*4880 20th- & 21st-Century Poetry U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| This seminar provides opportunities to study English-language modern and contemporary poetry. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English majors; ENGL*4680 |
| ENGL*4890 Contemporary Literary Theory U (3-0) [1.00] | |
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| This course will study the major branches of contemporary literary theory. Topics covered will include structuralism, reader-oriented theory, feminist theory, new historicist and materialist critique, postcolonialist critique, and deconstruction. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Restricted to English majors; ENGL*4690 |
| ENGL*4910 Honours English Essay S,F,W (3-0) [0.50] | |
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| A major essay (approx. 25 pages) on some subject of special interest to the student is prepared and written under the direction of a faculty member. Consent of the instructor must be obtained and the subject must be approved by the School prior to the semester in which the course is to be taken. This option is intended only for students who have performed particularly well within the honours program. Exceptional students may use ENGL*4910 for creative writing, on the approval of the instructor. | |
| Prerequisite(s): | ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960) |
| Restriction(s): | Instructor consent required. |