Survey of Major English Writers
Major authors in English literature from the 14th- to the 20th-century. Authors may include such writers as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Austen, Dickens, Eliot. Special attention will be given to students' writing.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Literature in English: Forms and Approaches
Selected works of fiction, poetry and drama, drawn largely from the 19th- and 20th-centuries, with attention to the conventions of genre and emphasis on perceptive reading and effective writing.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Language and Thought
Critical analysis of selected writings in literature, natural science and social science. Special attention will be given to students' writing.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 1P97 or 1P98.
Modern Fiction
Forms and techniques of fiction in English by selected writers of the 20th-century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Popular Narrative
(also offered as COMM 2F92 and PCUL 2F92)
Archetypal and mythic dimensions of popular literary genres such as the detective novel, Gothic fiction, science fiction, the romance novel; comparison and contrast with other media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, FILM 1F94 or permission of the instructor.
Shakespeare
(also offered as GBLS 2F97)
Plays and Sonnets; representative plays from all genres: histories, comedies, tragedies and romance; a selection of Sonnets.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students may take DRAM 3F97 in place of ENGL 2F97.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in DRAM 3F97.
2001-2002: English Drama to the Closing of The Theatres in 1642
Selected plays from medieval miracle cycles to such playrights as Marlowe, Tourneur and Ford.
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of English literature.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Young People's Literature to 1914
Critical study of fairytales, folk tales, poetry and novels adapted for or directed toward children and young people from the folk-tale heritage to 1914.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Young People's Literature after 1914
Critical study of fairytales, folk tales, poetry and novels written for children and young people during the 20th-century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Sixteen-Century Literature
Prose and poetry from 1500 to 1590, including popular and courtly traditions.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Spenser and the Age of Elizabeth
Elizabethan literature of the 1590s, with particular emphasis on Spenser.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Early 17th-Century Literature
Early modern drama, poetry and prose, 1603 to the English Revolution, including such writers as Webster, Donne, Jonson and Lanyer.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P21.
The Age of Sensibility
Prose, poetry and drama 1740-1798, including such writers as Johnson, Cowper and Sterne.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 2P41.
Early Romantic Literature
Poetry of Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge; selected literary criticism and other prose.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Later Romantic Literature
Poetry of Byron, Shelley and Keats; selected letters and other prose.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Literature of the British Empire
Literature, both popular and canonical, which reflects the ongoing relationship between British imperialism, literary forms and cultural politics, from the 17th-century to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Postcolonial Literature
Literatures of resistance and emergence written in English in former British territories, such as those in Africa and the West Indies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Southern African Literatures of Transition
Literary explorations of and interventions in the political and socio-cultural transitions from white regimes to majority-rule politics. Emphasis on histories of trauma, displacement and dispossession.
Lectures, seminars, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
American Literature to 1900
Literature and literary culture from early European contact through Henry James and Edith Wharton. Emphasis on such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe and Dickinson.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
American Literature after 1900
Literature and literary culture from Henry James and the beginnings of modernism to the present time. Emphasis on the broadening of the canon.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Introduction to Literary Theory
Approaches to meaning and interpretation in the contemporary study of literature.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Canadian Literature to 1920
Poetry, fiction and prose from Moodie and Haliburton to Lampman, Leacock and Pratt.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Canadian Literature from 1920 to the Present
Poetry, fiction and prose from Grove and Callaghan to Ondaatje, Atwood and Findley.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Women Writers to 1900
(also offered as WISE 2P94)
Prose, poetry and drama by women from the 17th- to the 19th-century including such writers as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips, Lucy Hutchinson, Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Charlotte Brontë.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Modern Women Writers
(also offered as WISE 2P95)
Prose, poetry and drama by women from the mid-19th-century to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Creative Writing
(also offered as WRIT 3F05)
The craft of creative writing, for selected students in any discipline.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT (ENGL) 1P80 and 1P81, ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F99.
Note: students must apply in writing, with portfolio, at least two weeks before the beginning of classes. Details from the department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P05 or WRIT 3P05.
The Novel
Major English novelists and the development of the form from its beginnings.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Poetry and Poetics
(also offered as GBLS 3F42)
Language, form and technique in poetry with a focus on the modern and contemporary periods.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 credit and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
History of the Language
The development of the English language from its origins to the present state of English in North America. The nature and cause of major internal changes in the language will be examined, together. The influence of external cultural and linguistic forces in the shaping of modern English. Selected literary models will be used to illustrate the stylistic development of English.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Old English
Literature and language; a close reading of prose and several major poems in Old English, including passages from The Parker Chronicle, Wanderer, Seafarer, Deor, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Literary Criticism
(also offered as GBLS 3F93)
History, principles and practice of literary criticism. Emphasis on the Classical tradition (Plato, Aristotle, the Renaissance, Neoclassicism); Romantic and late 19th-century developments; 20th-century revitalization.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Chaucer: The Poetry
From The Book of the Duchess to The Canterbury Tales.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
The Literature of Milton's Time
Poetry and prose from the Civil War to the early Restoration period, with particular emphasis on Milton.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Restoration and Augustan Literature
Prose, poetry and drama 1660-1740, including Dryden, Pope and Swift.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 2P40.
Early Victorian Literature
Poetry, fiction and prose to the 1860s, including Tennyson, the Brontës, Arnold, Dickens and the Brownings.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Later Victorian Literature
Poetry, fiction and prose from the pre-Raphaelites to the end of the century, including the Rossettis, Meredith, Swinburne, Pater, Hardy and Wilde.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Contemporary Literature in English
The postmodern period, with emphasis on the forms, approaches and cultural responses which have characterized writing in English in the later 20th-century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P36.
Life Writing
Biographical and autobiographical writings: types, reception, theoretical aspects.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Literature of the 14th- and 15th-Centuries
The northern alliterative revival: Langland and Malory.
Seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ENGL 3P10.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 4P10.
2001-2002: Contemporary Writing and History
How authors, poets and playwrights seek to understand, to take responsibility for and write about the past and how they negotiate the mythic, legendary, historical, textual, political and geographic worlds that they have inherited. Novels, poems, plays and theoretical texts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P36.
Theoretical Issues in the Study of Literature
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
2001-2002: Romancing the Past: Canadian Literature/Canadian History
Multidisciplinary exploration of Canadian literature that explicitly incorporates and builds upon significant events from Canada's past. Novels, poems, historical documents and theoretical texts.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: two year 2 ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Contemporary Literary Theory
The major schools and the essential issues of contemporary literary theory.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
Senior Research Tutorial or Thesis
Either tutorial combined with individual research or a thesis on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the department.
Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.
Senior Tutorial or Research Paper
Either tutorial combined with individual research or a research paper on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the department.
Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.
Senior Tutorial or Research Paper
Either tutorial combined with individual research or a research paper on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the department.
Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.
Topics in English Literature Before 1800
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
2001-2002: Jane Austen
The work of Austen from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Topics in 19th-Century Literature
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
Topics in Contemporary Literature
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
Topics in Contemporary Canadian Writing
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
2001-2002: Elsewhere in Contemporary Canadian Fiction
Rendition of non-Canadian space in recent Canadian fiction by such authors as Atwood, Ondaatje, Urquhart, Van Herk and Mistry, and its relation to theories of space and locality and to questions of ideology, identity and agency.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
2001-2002: Re/Covering the Past in Contemporary Canadian Poetry
Historical revision in poetic sequences by such poets as Ondaatje, Clarke, Bolster, and Crozier, with attention to narrative theory and discursive strategies.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Text and Context
Topics in literature and intellectual history.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.