English Literature: Tradition and Innovation
Works from the medieval 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 century to the present. 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
Responses to 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.
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(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) 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(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor.
Genre Studies
History and characteristics of a particular literary genre such as satire, detective fiction, graphic novels selected by the instructor.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor.
Note: see Department webpage for details.
Speculative Fiction
Critical study of some of the histories, contexts, genres, and traditions of science fiction and the literature of the fantastic.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) 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(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor.
Literature in the Age of the Tudors
Poetry and prose, primarily of the 16th century, in the cultural context of the Tudor dynasty and the print culture.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, MARS 1F90 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(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, MARS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature and Culture I
Examination of British literature and culture from 1660 to the 1790s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations
(also offered as IASC 2P28 and WRIT 2P28)
Classical foundations, historical developments and contemporary theory. 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(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, IASC 1F00, COMM 1F90, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (WRIT) 2P27.
British Romanticism I
Examination of the literature and culture of the Romantic period in Britain from the 1780s to the 1830s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
British Victorian Literature and Culture I
Examination of the literature and culture of the Victorian period in Britain from the 1830s to 1901.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or the permission of the instructor.
Poetry and Poetics
Construction of a working technical vocabulary for analyzing and discussing poetry, including a variety of poetic styles, authors and periods, as well as a number of critical statements on poetics.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Postcolonial Literature
(also offered as INTC 2P52)
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(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Southern African Literatures of Transition
(also offered as INTC 2P53)
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, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 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(s): one Humanities context credit (60 percent) or permission of the instructor.
Representing the World in Modern Fiction
(also offered as IASC 2P57)
Major modes in the representation of human experience in modern fiction: romance, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Novels and short stories.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, IASC 1F00 or permission of the instructor.
Valuing Contemporary Fiction
(also offered as PCUL 2P59)
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, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (60 percent) or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (PCUL) 2P96.
American Literature: 1800-1865
Literature of the post-Revolutionary era to the Civil war, foregrounding the foundation of a distinctly American literary tradition and the achievements of the American Renaissance.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2P61.
Early Canadian Literature
Canadian explorations of cultural conflict and the emergence of the nation from First Contact to Exploration to Settlement.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Modern Canadian Literature
Canadian literary response to the radical social and cultural shift of modernism. Topics include war, gender, industrialization and urbanization.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Contemporary Canadian Literature
Writing from the post-centennial explosion and maturation of Canadian literature, including current cutting-edge work. Topics may include postmodernism, multiculturalism, ecocriticism and small press experimentation.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
American Literature:1865-1910
Prose of the Reconstruction period, the Gilded Age and the Progressive era, emphasizing the growth of the minority literatures and the rise of realism and regional writing.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2P61.
American Literature: 1910-1945
Literature of the early 20th century, emphasizing the various literary and cultural responses to industrialization and world wars, and the rise of modernism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2P62.
American Prose from 1945
Topics may include the Cold War, the rise of social movements such as Black Power and Second-Wave Feminism, Vietnam, postmodernism, America and globalization, and expanding the canon of American literatures.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2P62.
Introduction to Literary Theory
(also offered as IASC 2P70)
Approaches to meaning and interpretation in the contemporary study of literature.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, IASC 1F00 or permission of the instructor.
English and Empire
Cultural, political, economic, and linguistic forces shaping the global expansion of English. Focus on at least one of English in Asia, Africa or the Americas.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2Q90.
Shakespeare 1590-1603
(also offered as LART 2P80)
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(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART (GBLS) 1F90, 1F91, MARS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2Q92 and GBLS 2P80.
Shakespeare 1603-1614
(also offered as LART 2P81)
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(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART (GBLS) 1F90, 1F91 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2Q93 and GBLS 2P81.
Shakespeare's Comedies
(also offered as LART 2P82)
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(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART (GBLS) 1F90, 1F91 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2Q94 and GBLS 2P82.
Shakespeare's Tragedies
(also offered as LART 2P83)
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(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART (GBLS) 1F90, 1F91 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2Q95 and GBLS 2P83.
Non-Shakespearean Drama in England, 1576-1642
Variety of dramatic genres written for the playhouses of early modern London, including plays by Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Middleton, Massinger and Ford.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, MARS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 2Q98 and 2V91.
Popular Narrative
(also offered as COMM 2P93, FILM 2P93 and PCUL 2P93)
Analysis of storytelling across different media such as novels, film, television, the Internet and video games.
Lectures, seminar, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), BCMN, COMM, FILM (single or combined), MCMN and PCUL majors.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, FILM 1F94, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (PCUL/COMM) 2F92.
Reading the Middle Ages: The Heroic and the Chivalric
(also offered as MARS 2P95)
Interdisciplinary examination of literature, music, arts and society of both the northern Germanic hero and the medieval and Renaissance court. Included are Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon heroic literature, Eddic poetry, Old Norse sagas, the Niebelungenlied, the lais of Marie de France, Arthurian-related narratives, troubadours, and religious and secular music.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Women and Literature
(also offered as INTC 2Q99 and WGST 2Q99)
Feminist perspectives on representations of women and their writings, focusing on Western and/or World literature.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, INTC 1F90, WGST (WISE) 1F90.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WISE 2Q99.
Studies in Writing by Women
(also offered as WGST 2V20-2V29)
Selected topics in women's writing.
Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WGST (WISE) 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WISE 2V20-2V29.
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of English literature.
Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2V90-2V99.
Advanced Studies in Popular Narrative
(also offered as COMM 3P03, FILM 3P03 and PCUL 3P03)
Case studies in the adaptation of popular texts across media.
Lectures, seminar, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), BCMN, COMM, FILM, MCMN and PCUL majors.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2P93 (2F92).
Creative Writing: Short Fiction
(also offered as WRIT 3P06)
The craft of short fiction writing.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students with portfolio and permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.
Note: see Department for details regarding writing portfolio.
Creative Writing: Poetry
(also offered as WRIT 3P07)
The craft of poetry writing.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students with portfolio and permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.
Note: see Department for details regarding writing portfolio.
True Stories: The Art and Craft of Literary Journalism
(also offered as WRIT 3P18)
History and theory of narrative non-fiction from Daniel Defoe to Susan Orlean; techniques of narrative craft in the telling of factual stories.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one and one-half ENGL, COMM, PCUL or WRIT credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above.
Spenser and the Age of Elizabeth
Edmund Spenser's lyric and narrative verse, including sonnets, pastoral, and his epic romance, in the context of Elizabethan literature and culture.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 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 emphasizing Milton.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature and Culture II
Advanced studies in British literature and culture from 1660 to the 1790s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Rhetorical Analysis
(also offered as IASC 3P28 and 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(s): two ENGL credits, one WRIT credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.
British Romanticism II
Advanced studies in the literature and culture of the Romantic period in Britain from the 1780s to the 1830s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
British Victorian Literature and Culture II
Advanced studies in the literature and culture of the Victorian period in Britain from the 1830s to 1901.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Modernism
Modernist writing in English, from its experimental beginnings through its engagement with radical social thought in the 1960s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Contemporary Literature in English
(also offered as IASC 3P39)
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.
Prerequisite(s): one of two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99, IASC 2P57 and 2P70 or permission of the instructor.
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.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Gothic Writing
The gothic in novels, poetry, drama and non-fiction prose from its beginnings to the turn of the 20th century by such writers as Burke, Radcliffe, Lewis, the Shelleys, the Brontës and Stoker.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
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.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Gothic Traditions since 1900
The gothic in fiction, non-fiction prose, and popular culture from the turn of the 20th century to the present by such figures as Stoker, Peake, Hitchcock, King, Carter, Rice and Craven.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Writing the Body in 19th-Century Literature
Representations in American and British poetry and fiction. Topics include the diseased body, the racialized body, the gendered body and the eroticized body.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous grade and credit obtained in ENGL 3V91.
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.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Literary Movements in the United States
Movement or tradition in American literature organized around a school of representation or a cultural tradition such as Hispanic, Asian, African American or Native Literatures.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.
Filming Canadian Literature
Interplay between a wide range of Canadian literary texts and their film versions; includes adaptation and narrative theory.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Life Writing
(also offered as WRIT 3P90)
Cultural productions of the self; theories of and approaches to the study of life writing; texts may include memoirs, diaries, autobiographies and biographies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Introduction to Anglo-Saxon
Basics of the language; selections from some of the earliest English prose and verse.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Contexts and conventions of the earliest English poetry. Includes such poems as Maldon, Wanderer, Seafarer, Judith, Wife's Lament, Dream of the Rood and excerpts from Beowulf.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3P91.
Literary Criticism
(also offered as LART 3P94)
Literary criticism from Aristotle to Brooks and Leavis emphasizing enduring literary critical problems.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in GBLS 3P94.
Romance and Visionary Literature of the late Middle Ages
Such texts as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Pearl from Langland's Piers the Plowman, Sir Thomas Malory's account of the rise and fall of the Round Table.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Old Norse: Language and Literature I
The Old Norse language; introduction to the prose, poetry, and culture of the Viking age.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, or permission of the instructor.
Note: the prerequisite courses should be from the Faculty of Humanities.
Old Norse: Language and Literature II
Old Norse prose and poetry of the Viking age, including prose sagas, heroic poetry, and skaldic verse.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3P96.
Advanced Topics in Canadian/American Transnationalism
(also offered as CANA 3P99)
Advanced topics relating to Canada’s cross-border relations with the United States.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week
Prerequisite(s): one of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97, CANA 1F91 or permission of the instructor.
Structuralist and Poststructuralist Literary Theory
Development of structuralist and poststructuralist thought from the late 19th century. Includes structuralist theoreticians such as de Saussure, Levi-Strauss and Barthes and poststructuralist theoreticians such as Derrida and Foucault.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 4P70.
Cultural Materialism and Literary Theory
Examination of the evolving traditions of Marxian and dissident thought and the study of literature as cultural production within a political economy. Includes readings of such authors as Gramsci, Benjamin and Jameson.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory
Key concepts and debates in psychoanalysis and their application to the study of literature.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Feminist Cultural Theory
(also offered as WGST 3Q94)
Relation between culture and the lives of diverse women. Intersections between a wide array of cultural forms, artifacts and practices and the ways in which gender is experienced and lived. Issues include the production of subjectivity, knowledge and power, the production of identities, institutional constructions of gender, resistance and agency.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite(s): one of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97, WGST (WISE) 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (WISE) 3P67 and WISE 3Q94.
Topics in Children's Literature
Advanced Studies in writing for children and young people.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or above or permission of the instructor.
2013-2014: Twentieth-Century Fantasy for Young People
Developments and controversies in fantasy fiction for young people throughout the 20th century, with such writers as Lewis, Le Guin, Rowling and Pullman.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or above or permission of the instructor.
Advanced Studies in Writing by Women
(also offered as WGST 3V20-3V29)
Selected topics in women's writing at an advanced theoretical and methodological level.
Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, WGST (WISE) 1F90 and one-half-credit from ENGL 2V20 to 2V29 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WGST 3V20-3V29.
Special Topics in Canadian Literature
Theoretical Issues in the Study of 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: permission of the Chair.
Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.
Literature of the English Revolution
(also offered as HIST 4P00)
Writings from the 1640s to the Restoration, including Areopagitia, Eikon Baislike, female prophesy and Agreement of the People, from literary, critical, historical and theoretical perspectives.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum major average of 60 percent or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Medieval Literature and Social Control
(also offered as MARS 4P06)
Medieval English literature in relation to the management of different populations in Britain in the late Middle Ages. Topics include the English Rising of 1381, punishment systems, sexuality, literacies and class, the disciplining of bodies to conform to etiquette, the regulation of female speech, and colonization and civility.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and MARS (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (MARS) 4V06.
Language and Discourse: Theory and Practice
(also offered as COMM 4P10 and WRIT 4P10)
Analysis of the relation between stylistic features and discursive contexts; encoding and enacting of social worlds and relations in text (both literary and non-literary); introduction to the field of discourse studies in general, emphasizing critical discourse analysis.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, HEAR, MCMN, SPLS (single or combined) majors and RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Words on Words: Narratives of Language
(also offered as WRIT 4P15)
Critical history of the study of language from Socrates to Saussure and after. Theories of the nature and origin of language, the relations among reality, language, and thought, including the relationship between linguistic theories and literary representation in several historical periods.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, HEAR, MCMN, SPLS (single or combined) majors and RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Studies in Cultural Rhetoric
(also offered as WRIT 4P20)
How writing shapes and is shaped by the cultural, political, and economic spheres; the intersections between the fields of rhetoric and cultural studies and their contributions to writing production and analysis.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours) BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), HEAR, SPLS (single or combined) majors, RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Jane Austen
The work of Austen from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V30.
Advanced Studies in Post-Colonial Literature
Advanced studies in literature and theories of resistance and emergence focusing on literary responses to post-conflict conditions.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V41.
James Joyce's Ulysses
Close reading and discussion of Joyce's 1922 novel. Various theoretical perspectives and reading approaches.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V45.
Virginia Woolf
Selected writings:essays, diaries, major novels.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V46.
Contemporary Canadian Fiction: The Short Story
Short fiction by such writers as Munro, Gallant, Atwood and MacLeod.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V64.
Space and Place in Modern and Contemporary Canadian Poetry
Treatment of place in Canadian poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries including representation of urban, rural and wilderness environments. Focus on theories of place and space, the idea of home and the notion of lyric philosophy of contemporary Canadian nature poetry.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V65.
Avant-Garde in Canadian Literature
Radical poetry and prose of the 20th century.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V68.
Contemporary Theoretical Approaches
Current and emerging theoretical approaches to the study of literature. Includes movements such as new historicism, postcolonial theory, psychoanalytic criticism, queer and gender theory, trauma theory, ecocriticism and posthumanism.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
King Arthur in Literature for Young People
Ways in which the Arthurian legend has been adapted for use in literature for young people focusing on texts from the 20th century in a range of genres.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V72.
Writing the Environment
(also offered as WRIT 4P90)
Theoretical, literary texts, and creative writing concerning the relation between literature and the environment.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), APLI (single or combined), ALTS, BCMN, COMM, HEAR, MCMN, SPLS (single or combined) majors and RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (WRIT) 4V90.
Animal Studies and Literature
Literary and cultural representations of animals from the early modern period to the 21st century in the context of Human-Animal Studies.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
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: permission of the Chair.
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: permission of the Chair.
Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.
Topics in English Literature Before 1800
Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Topics in 19th-Century Literature
Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
2013-2014: Victorian Afterlives
Comparison of influential Victorian texts such as Jekyll and Hyde, Dracula and
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
2013-2014: London: Monster City
Growth of London from a Medieval town into a major metropolitan area as reflected in poetry, novels and first-person accounts. Authors include Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)BEd/(Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor.
Note: offered online.
Topics in Contemporary Literature
Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Topics in Contemporary Canadian Writing
Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
2013-2014: Reading a Renaissance Woman
(also offered as MARS 4V70)
The place of books and reading in the life and culture of Anne Clifford. Readings from personal writings and books in her library including extracts (in English) from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Cervante's Don Quixote, Castiglione's Courtier, Montaigne's Essays, Chaucer, Spenser, Jonson and Donne.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and MARS (single or combined) majors with approval to Year 4 (Honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (MARS) 3V92.
Text and Context
Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.