Innovation
Works from the mediaeval to the contemporary period, including such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Wordsworth, the Brownings, Woolf and Rushdie. Genres include tragedy, romance, epic, and the novel. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: particular attention will be paid to perceptive reading and clear, effective writing.
Literature in English: Forms, Themes and Approaches
Fiction, poetry, drama and film drawn from the 19th and 21st centuries. The conventions of genre and the ways writers shape their work to produce meaning. Treatment in literature of such themes as the nature of evil; history, gender and civil strife; constructions of love.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: particular attention will be paid to perceptive reading and clear, effective writing.
Literature of Trauma and Recovery
Human suffering, both personal and societal, and the power of words to express and effect change in the face of powerful adversity. Narratives of and responses to illness, violence, death and mourning, war and pestilence, and genocide. Includes works drawn from fiction, poetry and drama.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: particular attention will be paid to perceptive reading and clear, effective writing.
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.
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.
Chaucer: The Poetry
From The Book of the Duchess to The Canterbury Tales.
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 3P10.
Sixteenth-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.
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
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose 1740-1798, including such writers as Johnson, Cowper, Sterne, Burney and Radcliffe.
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 Writing
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose by such writers as Blake, the Wordsworths, Coleridge and Austen.
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 Writing
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose by such writers as Byron, the Shelleys, Keats and Hemans.
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.
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.
The Short Story
Theory and analysis of the short story from Poe and Hawthorne to contemporary writers.
Lectures, seminars, 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 2F55.
Fiction
Major modes in the representation of human experience in modern fiction: romance, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Novels and short stories.
Lectures, seminars, 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 2F55.
American Literature to 1900
Literature and literary culture from early European contact through Henry James and Edith Wharton emphasizing 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 emphasizing 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, WISE 1F90 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, WISE 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Valuing Modern Fiction
Contesting concepts of literary value; the grounds and methods of evaluation; differing interpretive communities; social locations and uses of fiction. Novels and short stories.
Lectures, seminars, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Elizabethan Shakespeare
(also offered as GBLS 2Q92)
Representative plays from the first half of Shakespeare's dramatic career emphasizing theoretical and cultural issues raised by the plays in the context of fin-de-siècle Elizabethan England.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.
Jacobean Shakespeare
(also offered as GBLS 2Q93)
Representative plays from the second half of Shakespeare's dramatic career emphasizing theoretical and cultural issues raised by the plays in the context of the opening decade of James I's culturally divisive reign.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.
Shakespeare's Comedies
(also offered as GBLS 2Q94)
Representative comedies and tragicomedies emphasizing the variety of Shakespeare's comic modes, from the grotesque to the miraculous, and on theoretical approaches to the comic.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.
Shakespeare's Tragedies
(also offered as GBLS 2Q95)
Shakespeare's development of tragedy as a genre in the context of early modern aesthetic and cultural concerns. Attention to recent theoretical approaches.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.
Shakespeare's Problem Plays
(also offered as GBLS 2Q96)
Shakespeare's most theoretically and culturally challenging plays. Attention to such issues as generic hybridity and breakdown, parody and metatheater.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.
Shakespeare: the Non-Dramatic Verse
(also offered as GBLS 2Q97)
Study of the sonnets, "Venus and Adonis," "Rape of Lucrece," and other poems alongside representative selections of other late Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of English literature.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(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. 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: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Creative Writing: Short Fiction
(also offered as WRIT 3P06)
The craft of short fiction writing.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.
Note: students must apply in writing, with portfolio, at least four weeks before the beginning of classes. Details from the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT (ENGL) 3F05 and ENGL (WRIT) 3P05.
Creative Writing: Poetry
(also offered as WRIT 3P07)
The craft of poetry writing.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.
Note: students must apply in writing, with portfolio, at least four weeks before the beginning of classes. Details from the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT (ENGL) 3F05 and ENGL (WRIT) 3P05.
Spenser and the Age of Elizabeth
Elizabethan literature of the 1590s emphasizing Spenser.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 2P22.
The Literature of Milton's Time
Poetry and prose from the Civil War to the early Restoration period emphasizing Milton.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Restoration and Augustan Literature
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose 1660-1740 by such writers as Dryden, Behn, Pope, Swift and Montagu.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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.
Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations
(also offered as WRIT 3P27)
Classical foundations, historical developments and contemporary theory. Attention to issues of the relation of language use to cultural practices, ethics, identity and power. Analysis of various genres of texts and persuasive writing in popular culture and mass media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one WRIT or two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.
Rhetorical Analysis
(also offered as WRIT 3P28)
Analysis of literary and non-literary texts using categories, insights and practices of classical and contemporary rhetorical studies. Texts include poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, scientific and political writing, and advertising. Attention to the rhetoric of public spaces, issues of social justice, and the building and maintenance of human communities.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one WRIT or two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.
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: 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: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Twentieth-Century Literature: The Modern Period
Modernist writing in English, from its experimental beginnings through its engagement with radical social thought in the 1960s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 3P33, 3P34 and 3P35.
Contemporary Literature in English
The postmodern period emphasizing the forms, approaches and cultural responses that have characterized writing in English in the later 20th century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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.
The 18th-Century Novel
The rise of the novel and its development 1700 to 1830 by such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, Fielding, Goldsmith, Edgeworth, Burney and Austen.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 3F40.
The Gothic Novel
The gothic novel from its beginnings to the 19th century by such writers as Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis, Maturin, Shelley and Brontë.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 3F40.
The 19th-Century Novel
Emergence of the novel as the pre-eminent literary form emphasizing engagement with social issues of the period and on realism as a means of representing human experience. May include such writers as Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, Thackeray, Hardy and James.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 3F40.
Modern Poetry and Poetics
Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries emphasizing the relationship between form and ideas in poems that investigate the central aesthetic, intellectual and political concerns of the modern period.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 (GBLS) 3F42.
Poetry in the Contemporary World
Poetry from the 20th century to the present emphasizing the varieties and functions of poetry in the period. Issues related to the production and distribution of poetry in print form, electronic fora, and public performance in our time.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 (GBLS) 3F42.
Auto/Biography
Biographical and autobiographical writings: types, reception, theoretical aspects.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
The Anglo-Saxon Language
Study of the language designed to provide a reading knowledge of Anglo-Saxon. Includes some accessible Anglo-Saxon texts.
Seminar, 3 hours per week
Prerequisites: 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 3F92.
Anglo-Saxon Literature
Forms, conventions and cultural context of Anglo-Saxon literature. Includes such texts as The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Dream of the Rood and excerpts from Beowulf.
Seminar, 3 hours per week
Prerequisite: ENGL 3P91.
Literature of the 14th and 15th Centuries
The northern alliterative revival: Langland and Malory.
Seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2P19, 3P10 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 4P10.
2003-2004: Writing Aboriginality in Canada
Aboriginal peoples and culture, as imagined and written into canonical English texts, and as they have written their own narratives and themselves.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Special Topics in Canadian Literature
Literature
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.
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, 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.
Structuralist and Poststructuralist Thought
Advanced introduction to theoretical concerns. Structuralist theoreticians, such as Marx, de Saussure, Freud, Levi-Strauss and Barthes. Poststructuralist theoreticians, such as Derrida, Foucault and Lacan.
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.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 4F70.
Contemporary Theoretical Approaches
Advanced introduction to such areas as cultural studies, postcolonial theory, subjectivity and identity, postmodernism and feminism.
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.
Prerequisite: ENGL 4P70.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 4F70.
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.
2003-2004: Early Modern Theatres of Cruelty
Violence, pain and abjection on the early modern stage emphasizing issues of gender, race and state violence. Playwrights such as Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster and Ford. Twentieth-century theorists, such as Artaud, Kristeva, Foucault, Scarry and Zizek.
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
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.
2003-2004: Contemporary Canadian Fiction: the Short Story
Short fiction by such writers as Munro, Gallant, Atwood, and MacLeod, in the context of contemporary theory related to the short story.
2003-2004: Space, Place and Identity in Contemporary Canadian Poetry
Renditions of space in the work of contemporary Canadian poets, such as Atwood, Ondaatje, Page, Heighton, Kroetsch and Scobie, with attention to theories of place and space, and to related issues of identity and agency.
Text and Context
Topics in literature and intellectual history.
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.
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.