100 - Critical Reading and Writing I This course develops students' proficiency in critical reading and writing through the study of a wide range of non-literary and literary texts, and the study of composition, with emphasis on connections between modes of reading and writing. * Note: English 100 is a requirement for graduation for all degree programs offered by the University of Regina. Students should be aware that failing English 100 could result in their being ineligible to graduate from any degree program at the University of Regina. Students who are planning to repeat ENGL 100 should seek academic advising before doing so. *
110 - Critical Reading and Writing II A study of a special topic in literature, which may include non-literary texts, in conjunction with a continuation of the writing program begun in ENGL 100. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 *** * Note 1: Students who have passed former ENGL 100, Literature and Composition (4 credit hours) or former ENGL 120, 130, or 140 may not receive additional credit for ENGL 110. * * Note 2: Every section of ENGL 110 has a different focus. Please consult the Department's Supplementary Calendar or the list of current course offerings on the Departmental website at: http://www.arts.uregina.ca/english. * * Note 3: Students who fail ENGL 110 twice should contact their faculty or their federated college immediately. *
211 - Literature Survey I A survey of literature in English from the Middle Ages to 1800. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
212 - Literature Survey II A survey of literature in English from 1800 to the present. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
213 - Survey of Canadian Literature A survey of Canadian Literature in English from the pre-twentieth century to the present day. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
221 - Poetry Practice in the analysis of poetry. Through the study of a wide range of poetic genres, this course provides students with a shared vocabulary of literary terms for the critical discussion of formal, stylistic and historical aspects of individual texts and of poetic traditions. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
222 - Fiction Practice in the analysis of fiction. Through the study of a wide range of fictional genres, such as the short story, the novella and the novel, this course provides students with methods and vocabulary for the formal, stylistic, cultural and historical study of both individual texts and traditions of fiction. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
223 - Drama Practice in the analysis of drama. Through the study of dramatic traditions and selected plays (considered both as written texts and as performance), this course provides students with methods and a shared critical vocabulary, to enhance their understanding, enjoyment, and critique of drama as a ritualized mode of cultural experience. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
251 - Expository and Persuasive Writing The theory and practice of expository and persuasive writing. Each student will be expected to write several papers in a variety of modes of writing. *** Prerequisite: A combined average of at least 60% in any two English courses numbered 100 or higher, and completion of at least 30 credit hours. ***
252 - Creative Writing I An introduction to the craft of creative writing, with work in poetry, drama, and prose fiction. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 *** ** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. ** * Note: All students wishing to enrol in this course must submit a sample of their creative writing and be interviewed by the instructor before registering. *
260 - The Structure of Modern English An introduction to the structure of modern English, with emphasis on speech sounds, sound patterns, word formation, sentence structure, and dialect variation. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100, or a 100-level course in a language or in linguistics *** * Note: Students who have successfully completed LING 200 or FR 226 are not permitted to enrol in this course for credit. *
300 - Chaucer A study of some of the major works of Chaucer, including selections from "The Canterbury Tales". *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
301 - Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances A study of five to seven of Shakespeare's comedies and romances. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
302 - Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies A study of five to seven of Shakespeare's histories and tragedies. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
303 - Milton A study of some of Milton's major works, including "Paradise Lost". *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
304 - Selected Author - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of the works of an author to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
304AA - Jane Austen The novels of Jane Austen.
304AC - The Poetry of W.B. Yeats A study of the poetry of W. B. Yeats. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 110 ***
304AH - James Joyce Irish writer James Joyce was, arguably, the single most influential Engilsh-language author of the twentieth century. This course will undertake an intensive study of two of his novels, Portrait of the Artis as a Young Man (1915) and Ulysses (1922).
304AK - Thomas Hardy A study of the work of Thomas Hardy. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 & 110
304AL - Selected Author: J.K.Rowling This course treats the Harry Potter series by British author J.K. Rowling from a variety of perspectives. We address significant influences on Rowling's writing, ethical questions raised by the books, the Christian treatment of duty and sacrifice, and the history of the books in the world.
309 - Methods for the Study of Individual Authors An exploration of methods used in the study of literary works in the context of their author's canon. Students will be required to write papers which analyze works in this context. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 *** * Note: Formerly numbered ENGL 200. Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 309 and ENGL 200. *
310 - Studies in the Literature of the Indigenous Peoples of North America - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from North American Indigenous literature, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
310AA - Contemp Cdn Aboriginal Fiction Selected novels and short stories written in English and published by Canadian Aborginal writers after 1973.
310AB - American 1st Nation Fiction Fiction by prominent contemporary American First Nations authors.
310AC - Residential School Lit For over 100 years, residential schools were the cornerstone of the Canadian government's policy of assimilation. The last school closed in 1986. Residential schools have had a profound effect on Aboriginal people who attended them and continue to affect Aboriginal people today. This class will study works of Aboriginal literature that use narrative, poetry, and to drama to expose the effects of the school in an effort to heal from them. We will also look briefly at film and visual art. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 110 ***
310AD - Cultural Conflicts between English Canadians and First Nations Writers This course examines the opposition between Christian and Aboriginal traditions in English Canadian and First Nations literatures. Students will review how Christian traditions displaced Aboriginal traditons during colonization, and then examine how First Nations have reasserted their traditions in the context of secular and pop culture traditions in the twentieth century. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 & 110 ***
310AE - Canadian First Nation Drama This course will examine works by prominent Canadian First Nation playwrights. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
310AF - The Metaphor of the Game This course looks at the metaphor of the "game" in Native and Western cultures, through myths, oral stories, short fiction, critical essays, drama, film. Following traditional and contemporary views, we will study a variety of ways writers use games of skill and chance to represent social, spiritual, psychological, existenial conditions. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110***
312 - Canadian Literature: Historical Periods - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from Canadian literature, with attention given to a particular historical period. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
312AA - Auto/biography in Contemporary Canadian Fiction This course examines contemporary Canadian fiction with emphasis on texts that cross boundaries between auto/biography and fiction for diverse political and narrative effects.
313 - Canadian Literature: Regional Literatures - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from Canadian literature, with attention given to a particular region. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
313AE - Contemporary Canadian Prairie Literature The course studies selected texts from Canadian Literature with attention given to tracing cultural politics, local and global, in recent works by prairie writers.
314 - Canadian Literature: Genre - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from Canadian literature, with attention given to a particular genre. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
314AA - Canadian Drama This course examines Canadian plays from the 1960s to the present with a focus on the diversity of theatrical styles and themes, in works from across the country. The course also looks at Canadian Theatre History in relation to Canadian drama and Canadian literature. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
314AB - Canadian Historical Fiction This course examines fiction by Canadian authors which deals with events of history.
314AC - Fixed Form Canadian Poetry This course examines the choice of poets in general and Canadian poets in particular to write within and against the strictures of established poetic forms (such as the ballad, the sonnet, the pantoum, the sestina, the villanelle and so forth). ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110***
315 - Canadian Literature: Special Topics - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from Canadian literature, with a focus to be chosen and announced with each offering. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
315AB - Canadian Literature: Art & Obscurity This course in twentieth-century Canadian literature places an emphasis on the response of the artist to the threat of obscurity. Our focus will be the modernist issue of the embattled self, driven constantly to respond to cultural and existential negations.
315AC - Special Topics in Canadian Literature of CanLit and the Politics of Sexuality - an AA-ZZ series Studies of selected texts from Canadian literature, with attention given to politics of sexuality. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110***
316 - Studies in American Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from American literature, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
317 - Studies in American Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from American literature, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
317AB - Contemporary American Literature This course examines a number of very recent American novels and short stories to ascertain the nature of contemporary American experience.
318 - Studies in American Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from American literature, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
318AA - American Lit: The Gilded Age American literature from the end of the Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. Authors may include Twain, James, Jewett, Chopin, Gilman, and Wharton. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 110 ***
318AB - American Renaissance This course studies the period when American literature comes of age: the 1850s and after. The major authors are Hawthorne and Melville (his magnificent Moby-Dick is on the reading list); we also consider works by others, including Poe, Emerson and Thoreau. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
319 - Studies in Women's Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts written by women, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
319AA - Women & Lit-Early Modn England Cultural paradigms of Renaissance women. A study of women as writers, readers, and subjects of literature in the seventeenth century.
319AD - Women's Detective Fiction The study of detective fiction written by women.
319AF - Modern Brit Women Playwrights Will focus on important British plays written by women in the last twenty years, examining their response to concerns of unique to women and to larger societal issues. Will address the goals and distinctiveness of women's writing and dicuss the role of the woman playwright in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
319AG - Eighteenth-Century Women Writers The eighteenth century saw the rise of the professional woman writer and the emergence of increasing freedoms for women. This course takes up these issues by examining a selection of texts by and about women. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 &110***
320 - Studies in Women's Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts written by women, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
321 - Studies in Women's Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts written by women, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
322 - Studies in the World Literatures in English - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of literature from areas of the world that have experienced colonization. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
322AA - Dominions & Republics Studies of selected texts by writers from nations of the British Commonwealth with attention given to both historical and cultural perspectives.
322AB - Post Colonial Fiction The course examines the ways in which writers from the (former) colonies of European empires have responded to colonial domination and exploitation.
325 - Studies in Medieval Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the Middle Ages, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
325AA - Medieval Literature This course introduces students to Old and Middle English literature from historical and generic points of view. From the Old English period, we study the epic Beowulf and shorter works. From the Middle English period, we study a fabliau, a beast fable, a parable, dramatic works, and lyrics.
326 - Studies in Medieval Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the Middle Ages, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
327 - Studies in Medieval Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the Middle Ages, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
327AA - Carnival and Medieval Theatre A study of medieval performance culture and its position within the social and political context.
327AB - Middle Ages and 16th C Italian Theatre Studies in the history and literature of the European theatre in the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. *** Prerequisites: Engl 100 and 110 ***
327AD - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight This seminar course will examine the late fourteenth-century author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. We will begin with excerpts from his poem Cleanness, and then move onto Gawain, whose manuscript source (Cotton Nero A.x, British Library) will be examined digitally. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110***
328 - Studies in Renaissance Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the Renaissance, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
328AC - Romancing RenaissanceNarrative This course focuses on sixteenth-century prose ficition and the various genres ranging from satire to romance. We study issues raised by the texts, such as the nature-nurture controversy and the virtues of the active and contemporary life, using various modern historic methods which analyse the relationship between politics and poetics. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
329 - Studies in Renaissance Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the Renaissance, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
329AA - Tudor & Stuart Theatre A study of the theatre of Tudor and Stuart England with special reference to the development of specialized space for performance.
329AB - Censorship and Renaissance Literature An examination of censorship of poetry, plays, and the pulpit for the period 1600-1642.
330 - Studies in Renaissance Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the Renaissance, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
331 - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the Restoration period and the eighteenth century, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
331AB - Eighteenth-Century Literature of the Fringe The focus of this course is twofold: we will explore literature written about madmen, fallen women, orphans, servants, and other marginal figures, and we will study works by writers who lived and wrote on the fringe of society. In so doing, the course interrogates the widespread notion that the Restoration and Eighteenth Century was an age of reason, order, and decorum. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
332 - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the Restoration period and the eighteenth century, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
333 - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the Restoration period and the eighteenth century, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
334 - Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the nineteenth century, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
335 - Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the nineteenth century, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
336 - Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the nineteenth century, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
336AC - Victorian Poetry A selection of Victorian poetry. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 110 ***
336AE - Lyric Romanticism A study of British Romantic lyric poetry. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 110 ***
336AG - 19C Lit: Inventing England Nineteenth-century Britain, shaken by revolutionary changes, sought to reinvent itself. This course asks how 19th century "England" imagined itself, in historical fiction, romance, adventure fiction, and sentimental realism, forms which permit both nostalgia for a re-imagined past and longing for a British future.
336AJ - 19C Lit: Imagining Domesticity This course examines the representation of domestic life -- the intimate, private space of the household -- in 19th century writing, from courtship fiction to Patmore's notorious "angel in the house." We investigate ideas of privacy, intimacy, sexuality, of the masculine and feminine, of both leisure and work.
336AL - Gender & Genius: The Genesis of Romanticism This course will explore the Romantic period and the concept of genius from its origins in copyright law to the gender issues arising from the Latin word, ingenium. We will study Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Mary and Percy Shelley, and the paradoxically unconscious state of genius as both a sign of mastery and yet an unmasterable gift. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
337 - Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the nineteenth century, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
338 - Studies in Twentieth Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the twentieth century, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
338AA - Literature in the 1920s A study of selected English and American literature of the 1920s.
338AB - Postmodern British Literature An examination of postmodern currents in British literature from 1980 to the end of the century.
338AC - Modern British Poetry A study of modern British poetry. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
338AF - Theatre of the Absurd This course examines representative Absurdist plays as texts for and in performance. It also considers their philosophical and theatrical foundations and their connection with thinkers and playwrights who have had a significant impact on the development of postmodern critical theory and theatre.
338AJ - British Writing of World War II This course offers a study of the often overlooked literature of the war years in Britain that encompasses a variety of genres and styles. It argues for the cohesiveness of the period as a discrete literary moment, defined by its own recurrent tropes, anxieties and themes.
339 - Studies in Twentieth Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the twentieth century, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
340 - Studies in Twentieth Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the twentieth century, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
341 - Studies in Twentieth Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts from the twentieth century, with attention given to historical perspective. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
342 - Special Studies in Historical Approaches to Literature - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of selected texts in a specially defined context. The particular focus of the course will be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
342AC - The Holocaust: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Writing and Psychology This course explores the nature of writing about the Holocaust through a study of literary and other texts that implicate readers in the psychological aspects of the Holocaust. Readings will include psychological studies, as well as literary and historical texts, and will highlight the complexity of studying the Holocaust. *** Prerequisite: Engl 100, 110, Psyc 101 and 102 ***
349 - Methods for the Study of Literary History An exploration of methods used in the reading of literary texts in a historical context. Students will be required to write papers which analyze literary texts by means of historical approaches. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 *** * Note: Formerly numbered ENGL 210. Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 349 and ENGL 210. *
351 - Advanced Writing An advanced course in the theory and practice of writing. Each student will be required to write several papers. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 251 or permission of the Department Head ***
352 - Creative Writing II - an AA-ZZ series. An advanced course in the craft of creative writing. The course will specialize in one genre of writing each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 252 *** ** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. ** * Note: All students wishing to enrol in this course must submit a sample of their creative writing and be interviewed by the instructor before registering. *
352AA - Writing Drama A specialized workshop in dramatic writing, or playwriting. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 252 *** ** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **
352AB - Creative Writing II: Fiction This course is an advanced workshop in writing narrative fiction, with emphasis on the short story.
352AD - Creative Writing II-Poetry This course will be an advanced workship/seminar in the writing of poetry. Our focus will be both practical (attention to line, sound, image, etc) and slightly more theoretical (how does poetry know? what does it know? how does it speak to/with the world etc.). Students will be expected to produce new work and to share it with other participants. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 252 *** ** All students wishing to enrol in this course must submit a sample of their creative writing and be interviewed by the instructor before registering. **
352AE - Creative Writing II: Playwriting and Writing for Performance In this course students will receive detailed instruction in playwriting coupled with a discussion of such dramaturgical problems as style, structure and characterization. Students will also receive instruction in writing for diverse performance contexts. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 252 *** ** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **
360 - History of the English Language The development of the English language from Germanic to Modern English, including changes in phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 260 or LING 100 or LING 200 ***
363 - History of Rhetoric A chronological study of theories of rhetoric and rhetorical practice. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
367 - Gender and Language A study of issues related to gender and language, including stylistic variation between the sexes, differing male and female strategies for dealing with social context, and sexist language. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110, or LING 220 *** * Note: This course is cross-listed with WGST 367. Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 367 and WGST 367. *
368 - Special Studies in Language and Writing - an AA-ZZ series. Studies of specific issues in language and/or writing. The particular focus of the course will be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
368AA - The Power of Metaphor This course uses an interdisciplinary lens - one which focuses literature, visual arts, cognitive science, and popular culture - to explore contemporary challenges to the traditional view of metaphor. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110. ***
368AB - Writing Culture(s) This course examines ways in which writing as a cultural activity informs, infects, controls, and liberates our understanding of discourse communities, disciplinarities, and ideas about social, political, and ethical action. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110***
371 - Studies in the Novel - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several novels from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
371AB - The Novel & The City This course examines the city as a socially and culturally symbolic setting in novels from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course focuses on the representation of London in novelistic terms. Authors include Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf and Salman Rushdie. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
371AD - The Novel in Translation This course examines contemporary novels that were not originally published in English. Among others, we will read texts by Haruki Murkami (Japanese), Jose Saramago (Portuguese), and W.G Sebald (German). *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
371AE - The Literary Gothic This course will study Gothic Literature, its connections to Romanticism, and its later transformations. It begins with late-eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth-century novels, examined in their contexts, but also includes works from the mid to late-nineteenth-century, showing how the Gothic genre develops into the genres of ghost story, mystery and horror fiction. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
371AF - Transformations in the Novel This course will examine transformations in the twentieth-century novel, paying attention to aspects such as: the relationship to the Victorian novel, modernism, gender and genre. *** Prerequisites: ENGL 100 and ENGL110 ***
372 - Studies in the Novel - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several novels from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
373 - Studies in the Novel - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several novels from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
374 - Studies in the Short Story - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several short stories from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
374AA - Modernist Short Story Cycle This course studies the rise of the short story cycle, as opposed to the story collection, during the modernist period, examining reasons for modernism's interest in constructing cohesive narrative wholes from interdependent shorter fictions, as well as how this form both reflected and helped to develop a distinctly modernist aesthetic. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
374AB - Studies in the Short Story Studies in The Short Story, will introduce students to a variety of short fiction, both classical and contemporary, and short story theory. We will use an anthology for breadth and also focus on Alice Munro's collection, Runaway, to examine a short story sequence. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 &110***
375 - Studies in the Short Story - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several short stories from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
376 - Studies in the Short Story - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several short stories from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
377 - Studies in Drama - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several plays from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
377AA - Eighteenth-Century Comedy A study of eighteenth-century comedy, with attention paid to social and political context. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
377AE - Contemporary Comedy This course will study plays written from the 1960s to the present, and will attempt to define comedy as it appears on the contemporary stage. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110. ***
377AF - Staging the Passion A study of various texts, medieval to contemporary, that dramatize the events of Christ's passion: his trial, crucifixion, and burial. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
378 - Studies in Drama - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several plays from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
379 - Studies in Drama - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several plays from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
380 - Studies in Poetry - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several poems from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
380AB - The English Elegy An examination of the development of the Engilsh elegy as a form of lyric poetry. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
381 - Studies in Poetry - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several poems from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
382 - Studies in Poetry - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several poems from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
383 - Studies in Poetry - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several poems from a generic perspective, with the particular focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
384 - Studies in Narrative - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several narrative texts, with a focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
384AB - Narrative & Memory The relationship between narrative and memory, both personal memory and cultural remembrance.
384AC - English Literature & the Bible The English Bible as literature and as cultural phenomenon; the effect of the English Bible on literature in English.
384AG - Images of Indigenous People The Forward to Holywood's Indian: The Portrayal of Native Americans in Film, Wilcomb E. Washburn of the Smithsonian Institute writes, "(the) image of the American Indian, more than that of any other ethnic group, has been shaped by film." Focus of class will be on the representation of Indigenous peoples in contemporary films.
385 - Studies in Narrative - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several narrative texts, with a focus to be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
386 - Special Studies in Genre - an AA-ZZ series. A study of various literary texts, with a specialized approach to the question of genre. The specific focus of the course will be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
386AC - Adventure & Idea Masculine Linking gender and genre, this course examines the construction of masculine heroism through a range of texts, from the romance to the classic adventure tale to its re-invention in the hands of seminal contemporary writers.
386AD - Environmental Poetry This course examines trends in Canadian and American environmental poetry, focuses on work from the last 100 years or so, and includes such topics as ecology and ecocriticism, aesthetics, gender, and poetics. *** Prerequisites: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
386AE - Literature and the Environment This course examines the development of literature that is aware of and responds to the human relationship with the environment. We will trace the development of environmental literature from the romantics forward, examining poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and eco-criticism. *** Prerequisites: English 100 and 110 ***
386AF - Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales This course will study a wide selection of fairy tales, both traditional and modern, paying attention to the relationship between the folk and literary traditions, the thematic content of canonical tales and their variants, and the nature of the tales? implied audience. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110***
387 - Special Studies in Genre - an AA-ZZ series. A study of various literary texts, with a specialized approach to the question of genre. The specific focus of the course will be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
387AA - Genre-The Classic Fairy Tale A study of six different tale types. "Little Red Riding Hood", "Snow White", "Cinderella", "Bluebeard" and "Hansel and Gretel". The course deals with the origin, genealogy, historical, social and psychological significance, and critical interpretation of these tales.
387AB - Science Fiction This course is an introduction to the study of science fiction as a literary genre and as a popular cultural phenomenon. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
387AD - Adapting Shakespeare & Genre This course focuses on the textual and theatrical dimensions of a variety of modern and pre-20th century Shakespearean adaptations for stage (including dance and musicals) and screen. It also considers the impulses behind adaptation, the nature and effect of various genres of adaptation and their connection with the contemporary hegemony.
387AE - Children's Literature An examination of several well-known books for children, focusing on human relations with the natural world. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
387AF - Horror Fiction The course is a survey of the literature of horror (short stories and novels) from the early nineteenth century to the present. Writers include Poe, Le Fanu, Machen, Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, and Steven King: topics include the Gothic, the ghost story, supernatural and psychological horror, vampire fiction, and dark fantasy.
387AG - Ideas of the University Universities have long experienced lively tensions: between free expression and official doctrine; between study for its own sake and study for some marketable purpose; between separation from and integration with the community. These and other themes are explored in a selction of texts centered around the university. Prerequisite: English 100 and 110.
387AH - Television and Genre: Studies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer This special-topics course will investigate a variety of generic themes within the fantasy television program 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' including horror genres, vampire mythologies and literary traditions, critical race issues, and structures of the serial text. Course materials will include critical theory, literature, and episodes from the show.
387AI - World Comics Students will analyze comics as a literary genre and as a cultural vehicle after being introduced to the history and the artistic techniques of the medium. Particular focus will be placed on Francophone "bandes dessinees", but North American comics and Japanese manga will also be included. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
388 - Methods for the Study of Literary Genre An exploration of methods used in the study of literary genres. Students will be required to write essays which analyze literature according to generic approaches. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 *** * Note: Formerly numbered ENGL 270. Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 388 and ENGL 270. *
389AB - The Long Poem This course examines the history and development of the long poem over the last 100 years, with specific focus on British Canadian and American writers. Theoretical and textual concerns relating to the long poem, as well as the tradition of the form, will comprise a significant element of focus.
390 - History of Criticism A chronological study of theories of literary criticism from Plato to T.S. Eliot. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
393 - Feminist Approaches to Literature An overview of feminist critical theory, with applications to several literary texts. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
394 - Special Studies in Gender and Literature - an AA-ZZ series. A study of several texts, with a specialized focus on the question of gender. The special topic of each course will be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
394AB - Race & Gender in 20thC Lit This course will examine the cultural construction of gender with illustrations from select African American and Asian Indian women's writing in the 20th century. The focus will be on construction of subjectivity, woman's space, resistance and its specific dimensions and the interlocking nature of race, caste, class and gender.
395 - Special Studies in Critical Theory - an AA-ZZ series. Special topics in the area of critical theory. The particular focus of each course will be chosen and announced each semester. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 ***
395AA - The Death of the Author This course examines changing concepts of "the writer" in twentieth-century though. Beginning with the ninetheenth- century "masters of suspicion", and encoding with the postmodern skeptics of presence, we will trace the history of the author's demise. If the writer is in fact "dead," can he or she be resurrected or reborn? *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
395AC - Reading, Spirituality, Politics A course of readings from a variety of historical and contemporary sources, this class will investigate reading as a unique and powerful spiritual exercise that is increasingly crucial in a culture of commodity distraction. It examines the relations between spirituality, reading, and living in the public social world. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
395AD - Queer Theories: Gender, Sexuality and Ideology This course will use an interdisciplinary framework to trace the deployment of 'queer' as a political, theoretical, legal and ideological space for living and thinking. We will both analyze and challenge the evolution of queer theory as an academic investment by tracking appearances within literature, cinema, artwork, and critical writing from approximately 1969-present. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110 ***
399 - Methods for the Study of Literary Theory An exploration of methods used in some recent approaches to reading literary texts. Students will be required to write papers which offer textual readings based on the application of these approaches. *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and ENGL 110 *** * Note: Formerly numbered ENGL 290. Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 399 and ENGL 290. *
400 - Studies in Old English Literature - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
400AA - Beowulf The aim of this course is to give the student the experience of the Old English epic Beowulf in its original language. The course will focus on translating the text from Old English into Present-Day English, along with discussion of issues of syntax, semantics, poetics (including prosody) and principles of translation. ** Permission of Department Head is required to register. **
405 - Studies in Middle English Literature - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
405AA - Women & Lit in the Middle Ages A study of the images of women that dominated medieval culture.
405AB - Middle English Visionary Lit Middle English writers cas narratives in the form of personal visions to treat a wide variety of subjects. Using both reader response and narrative theory, the course analyses how these authors construct the fictional audience, as they speak on matters of vital concern.
405AC - Medieval/Early Modern Romance This course explores the construction of masculine gender identity in the literary representations of the institution of chivalry. Focusing on the romance, students will study expressions of chivalric masculinity in martial, social, spiritual, erotic, familial and other contexts, moving from the 12th century texts of Chretien de Troyes to Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene.
410 - Studies in 16th-Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
410AA - Spenser: The Faerie Queene This course will read all six books of the Faerie Queene as a struggle with the dangers of idolotry. It also focusses on Spenser's concern for the private and public virtues, especially with the "politics of friendship".
410AB - Marlowe and Shakespeare This course treats Marlowe and Shakespeare as early modern dramatists who both overreach traditional categories in developing their own personal mythology. We examine 5 of Marlowe's canonical plays in relation to the five plays of Shakespeare with which they have been most often compared.
410AC - Poststructuralism and Shakespeare This course uses select plays by Shakespeare as test cases to examine the challenges presented by five poststructuralist approaches - deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and queer theory. The course explores how poststructuralism aids us in formulating an ethics of the other in Shakespeare's plays. *** Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours, and at least a 70% average both overall and in English courses. ***
410AD - Studies in 16th-Century Literature This course asks how early modern English writers of poetry, drama, and fiction situated themselves in relation to the powerful Ottoman Empire, Barbary pirates, and Mediterranean trade. How did they imagine religious, racial, and national identity? How did literary form function in their imaging? What historical experiences informed their fiction-making? *** Prerequisite: Min. of 60 credit hours of courses & have an average of at least 70% both overall and in English courses. Completed a minimum of 18 credit hours in Engl courses, at least 3 hours which must be at the 300-level ***
410AE - Shakespeare as Cultural Icon This course examines the ways in which Shakespeare has been used as a national and international icon, both to maintain institutionalized power and to serve as a resistance point for underprivileged groups. We trace this fundamental paradox through the cultural reception of four popular, contested plays in the Shakespeare canon.
415 - Studies in 17th-Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
415AA - Literary Archaeology: 1623 A study of English literary culture in the year 1623, using historical methodologies of literary interpretation.
415AB - Shakespeare A study of one or more aspects of Shakespeare's works.
415AC - Renaissance Lyric Poetry This course examines English Renaissance lyric poetry in the light of current scholarship on emerging concepts of self in the early-modern period. The primary focus is to examine the variety of lyric poetic voices of this period, particularly of the seventeenth century.
415AD - Preachers, Players & Community This course examines what early modern players and preachers had in common and how their "performances" contributed to cultural formation. It also explores the nature of the communication network within which they operated and its similarities to our own electronic web. Texts include plays, sermons, documentary and pictoral evidence.
415AE - John Donne:Cultural Engagement This course proposes two objectives: to engage critically with John Donne's works as a microcosm of cultural developments of the late 16th and early 17th century in England, and to examine the ways in which his works were received by subsequent generations.
415AF - The Body in 17th Century Literature Using a number of theoretical approaches, we will examine representations of the body and its functions in literary and medical texts from the 17th century. We will consider how these representations reflect cultural values and perpetuate gender, economic, naturalist, and colonialist ideology. Prerequisite: Engl Honours students only or permission of department head.
420 - Studies in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
420AA - Jonathan Swift The major works of Jonathan Swift. *** Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours of courses and have an average of at least 70% both overall and in English courses. ***
420AB - She-Tragedy This course examines the phenomenon of the female scapegoat, who is intended to serve both as a cure and an indictment for society's sexual double standard, in representative male-authored tragic drama of the 17th and 18th centuries, and culminates in an examination of Richardson's novel Clarissa.
420AC - 18 Century Women's Fiction This course will examine a selection of fiction written by women between 1688 and 1798 using several theoretical approaches.
420AD - Sex/Text Trans Baroq/Augus Lit This course examines the various ways that seventeenth- and eighteenth century writers transgress social, political and religious conventions. The course will focus especially on the way sexual transgression acts as a metaphor for literary transgression.
420AF - Melancholy/Madness 18-Century This course explores the under-belly of the so-called "Age of Reason" by examining a range of literary and medical representations of melancholy and madness. We will supplement our investigations with a series of critical texts, and topics of discussion will centre around the relationship between 18th-century mental illness and gender, genius, culture, and creativity.
420AP - Eighteenth Century Sexualities This seminar will explore issues of gender and sexuality in Eighteenth Century culture, including literature, artwork, music, and fashion.
425 - Studies in Romantic Literature - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
425AB - The Romantic Lyric The Romantic Lyric: A study of Romantic Subjectivism & Imagination as expressed in the Ode & the Sonnet - 1798-1822 - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats.
425AC - Wordsworth This course examines the poetry of Wordsworth from the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 to The Prelude of 1805.
430 - Studies in Victorian Literature - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
430AA - Joseph Conrad The works of Joseph Conrad..
430AB - Victorian Social-Justice Novel A study of the conventions of, and the political philosophies underlying, the Victorian social justice novel.
430AC - Transition to Modernity This course examines the changes in the relation between the individual and society, in available epistemological frameworks, in gender identities, and in the representation of desire through the study of texts written in England between 1860 and 1920. *** Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours, and an average of at least 70% both overall and in English courses. ***
430AD - Poetry of G. M. Hopkins An examination of the poetry and poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
430AE - Wells, Darwin,Scietific Romanc The course traces the emergence of a new literary genre, scientific romance, in England as a result of the impact of Darwinian ideas in the later nineteenth century The course covers the period 1859 to 1900, and its key work is THE TIME MACHINE (1895) by H.G. Wells.
430AF - The Brownings A study of the poetry and literary relationship of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
430AG - Science & Gender - 19C Fiction The course examines how Darwinian and post-Darwinian views of sexual difference influenced the portrayal by both male and female authors of fictional characters in the later nineteenth century.
430AH - Victorian Literature: Liberalism & Social Justice Novel The course treats liberal political philosophy as a key but occluded context for Victorian social-justice novels. Topics include public and private space, and their right relationship; political rights and the juridical person; women, class, and suffrage; parliamentary and social reform; and the role of education in bringing rights into being.
430AI - Inventing England: Myths of Nationhood and Nationalism n the Long 19th Century Beginning with Benedict Anderson's touchstone Imagined Communities this course examines modern thinking about the meaning of nations and nationalism in texts and cultural expressions ranging from Nelson's column to Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
430AJ - Studies in the Nineteenth Centure: Crimes and Misdemeanours This course examines ideas of Victorian social order through their opposite or underside, disorder, with particular reference to the ideas of crime and sin, and to theories of criminality, punishment, and rehabilitation, in high realist texts as well as sensation and detective fiction.
430AK - 19th C. Aesthetic Literature A study of 19th century aesthetic literature, including aspects of Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, the Decadence and Nonsense Literature. *** Prerequisite: English Honours students or permission of the Department Head. ***
435 - Studies in 20th-Century Literature - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
435AA - Modernism & Postmodernism This course examines some of the primary creative and theoretical texts of modernism and postmodernism with the aim of illuminating period and aesthetic issues. This course examines texts from several national literatures, and is supplemented by mandatory readings in critical theory and aesthetics.
435AB - The Modernist Verse Epic This course studies the attraction amongst modern writers to the exploration and revision of the epic mode in poetry and the transformation of this most ancient of literary genres in the apparently revolutionary formal experimentation of early twentieth-century verse.
435AC - Repetition in British Lit This course examines theories by Vico, Freud, Kierkegaard and Benjamin to reveal the complex nature of repatition as a cultural form. These theories are applied to recent British novels, all of which employ repition as a key narrative structure.
435AD - Virginia Woolf A study of the novels and essays of Virginia Woolf.
435AE - The Great War This course examines the cultural history of the First World War. Through a multidisciplinary approach and the analysis of varied cultural artifacts--from memoirs, peotry and fiction to film, architecture and the visual arts--the course explores the impact of the "Great War" on the collective imaginations of Europeans.
435AF - British Novels - New Millenium This course examines the fiction of some of England's newest literary stars, including Monica Ali, Johathan Coe, Jim Crace, Will Self and Zadie Smith. Our focus is on the changing cultural and aesthetic values of English society post-2000.
435AG - Women of Modernism This course examines the unique contributions of women writers to a broader modernist aesthetic, as well as how these writers may be seen to play the role of outsiders, questioning and critiquing this modernism itself, and more particularly, its more masculinist incarnations. ** Permission of the department head is required to register. **
435AH - Modernist Poetics A study of the novel and its poetics between 1907 and 1937. The rise of formalist aesthetics in the twentieth century raised questions about the poetics of the novel that writers like Lubbock, Joyce, and Forster explored in their novels and essays. Readings include novels and essays on poetics.
435AI - Modernism & Popular Culture Through an examination of some often marginalized works by canonical modernists, this course explores modernism in its attempts to reach a mass audience through a variety of popular cultural forms and its recurrent attempts to occupy the role of public intellectual.
435AJ - Ian McEwan This course is an intensive study of the fiction of Ian McEwan, from his early short stories to his recent best-selling novels. Our focus will be on the ethical dimensions of McEwan's work and life, including his role as a public intellectual and activist.
435AK - T. S. Eliot An overview of the career and development of T. S. Eliot, one of the most influential poets and critics of the twentieth century, this course will examine the collected verse, as well as selected plays and critical work.
435AL - Holocaust Literature This is a course on the study of Holocaust Literature written in English. We will study a range of genres, including memoir, novel, short fiction, poetry, drama, and other media to seek to understand the complexity of Holocaus representation in literature. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
440 - Studies in Canadian Literature - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
440AA - Canadian Historical Fiction The study of recent Canadian historical fiction.
440AB - Margaret Laurence This course will cover the study of Margaret Laurence's Canadian novels, selected African works, and selected criticism of her work. *** Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours, and an average of at least 70% both overall and in English courses. ***
440AC - Late 20th C Canadian Fiction This course will study Canadian fiction written in the last thirty years of the twentieth century.
440AD - Canadian Poetry Since 1970 This couse will focus on a reading of poetic works of the last 30 or so years. Major improvements, signifcant shifts, and the work of widely read poets will be examined. We will explore the roles of small presses and literary magazines in the the dissemination of contemporary writing in Canada.
440AF - Indigenous Peoples' Theatre Indigenous people have embraced theatre as a means of expression both professionally and at the community level. This course will examine a selection of short plays by theatre artists including Tomson Highway, Ian Ross, and Monique Mojica to determine how they ?apply? theatre to heal Indigenous communities from colonial trauma. *** Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours and an average of at least 70% both overall and in ENGL courses. ***
440AG - The Canadian West in Fiction The study of individual works of Canadian prairie fiction in the contest of a variety of attempts to define ?the Canadian West in Fiction.?
440AH - Eli Mandel This course will study the poetry and criticism of Saskatchewan writer (and governor-general award winner) Eli Mandel and his contribution to Canadian literature and culture.
440AI - Canadian Literature: Atwood For Margaret Atwood, literature is a powerful complex of self-fashioning, imagining and eyewitnessing, which is never stable or morally neutral. This course examines Atwood's national, environmental, humanitarian and feminist concerns, as well as her postmodern aesthetics and her experimentation with genre.
445 - Studies in American Literature - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
445AA - American First Nations Fiction A study of the key narratives of N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, and Leslie Silko, three of the most accomplished and influential contemporary First Nations writers in the USA. ** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **
445AB - Gender & 19 C American Fiction An examination of the separate spheres paradigm; the validity of the gender binary in the analysis of nineteenth-century American fiction.
445AC - Henry James and Subjectivsn This course is a study of the dual influence on James of Walter Pater and Ralph Waldo Emerson and their part in creating a particular breed of late 19th century subjectivism that is developed by James. The course studies four novels by James: Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl.
445AD - American Literary Thought This course examines the way some American writers use literary texts to investigate philosophical problems. We look at the nature of literary knowledge through epistemological and ethical inquiries. The course studies a variety of American authors, from Emerson and Thoreau to Dillard and Rorty.
445AE - Louise Erdrich & Influences Louise Erdrich is the most prolific and critically-acclaimed Native American writer. This course examines two fundamental lines of influence--the written and the oral--on Erdrich's work.
445AF - Henry James A study of Henry James's increasingly complex manipulation of fictional theme and form.
445AH - American Poetic Traditions: Whitman and Dickinson In this course, we will study two powerful voices in American poetry, nineteenth-century poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. The contrast between them is striking, yet paradoxically their poetry shows many similarities in the bold experimental style and personal subject matter. We will also consider their departure from their predecessors as well as their response to Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?The Poet.?
450 - Studies in English Language - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
455 - Studies in Prose Fiction - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
460 - Studies in Drama - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
460AA - Contemporary Drama This course examines plays by both established and new dramatists which have been successes in London's West End or New York's Broadway in recent years. Writers include Pinter, Hare, McDonnough, Stoppard, Mamet, and Wertenbaker.
460AB - Rhetoric and Drama Via plays selected from classical, medieval, Renaissance, modern and contemporary drama, this course will explore the influence of rhetoric upon the historical development of the theatre.
465 - Studies in Poetry - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
470 - Studies in Form - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
475 - Special Studies in Genre - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
475AA - Autobiography Types of Canadian life-writing, with particular reference to the creation of subjectivity through language, gender, and sexuality.
475AB - The Ballad A study of the English and Scottish traditional ballad.
475AC - Augustan Mock Satires A favourite satiric method of the 'Long' 18th Century was to create burlesque versions of well-known genres, both as a means of literary criticism and as a vehicle for satire of non-literary concerns. Analysis of a wide range of such parodic works will emphasize the close connection between literature and social issues in the years between 1660 and 1800.
475AD - Gothic Fiction This course examines English Gothic fiction - from its beginnings with Radcliffe, through its Romantic, Victorian and Modernist manifestations, to its contemporary forms - as a repository of the cultural and social ideals and anxieties of the periods in which it is written.
475AE - Realisms: Theory & Practice Tracing the development of realism from early nineteenth century to contemporay fiction, this course questions recent theories of realism whch, following Cathering Belsey's attack on the form in Critcal Practice, takes it as a species of ideological state apparatus. Background readings range from Aristotle and George Eliot to Christopher Nash.
475AF - Utopian Literature Study of a number of works significant in the Utopian tradition, with attention to: Historical and cultural contexts; themes such as politics, education, the arts, and gender roles; literary features of the genre; and related issues such as the intentional community and city planning. *** Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours, and an average of at least 70% both overall and in English courses. ***
475AG - Short Fiction of Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro In this course we will examine selected stories of Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro. The course will also consider short story theory. *** Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours, and an average of at least 70% both overall and in English courses. ***
475AH - Theory/Practice:GenreCriticism This course examines and tests the hypothesis that genre is a?if not the?fundamental way in which readers make sense of texts. After a brief survey of genre theory from classical times to the 19th century, we study the dominant theories of genre from the early 20th century to the present.
475AI - Science Fiction Adaptation This course examines science fiction novel-to-film adaptations in the light of recent adaptation theory. It begins with classic scientific romances by H.G. Wells and then moves to recent adaptations including 2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke/Kubrick), Solaris (Lem/Tarkovsky), and Blade Runner (Dick/Scott).
475AJ - Advanced Studies in Children's Literature and Theory This course examines the genre of children?s literature, focusing particularly on books targeting 9-12 year-old boys and girls published from 1910 through 1950. It also explores a variety of critical and theoretical approaches: psychoanalytical, genre theory, structuralist and post-structuralist theory, and gender analysis ***Prerequisite: Permission of Department Head ***
475AK - Ideas of the University Special Studies in Genre: Ideas of the University - study of literature about, and set in, universities, with focus on issues such as "pure" versus commercial research, the university asd a community and the "town gown" relationship. *** Prerequisite: As for base class Engl 475. ***
475AL - Creative Non-Fiction: The Experimental Memoir This course is a study of creative non-fiction (the memoir and lyric essay), and how this kind of writing differs from the novel. **Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**
475AN - Special Studies in Genre: Screening the Text: Modes of Fidelity in Film Adaptation+ This is a genre course focusing on the film adaptations of a variety of source texts. It will review contemporary adaptation theory, note its links to the classic problems of literary interpretation, and pursue a critical discourse based on modes of fidelity and infidelity in the text. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permissionof the Department Head to register.**
480 - Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
480AA - Poetics of Culture Aspects of the historical development of culture, centred in works of cultural theory from Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot to Raymond Williams and James Clifford. Topics will include the relation of class to culture, ethnographic translation of other cultures, nationalism, gender identity, and the relationship between technology and culture.
480AB - Textual Meaning & Implication For several decades textual indeterminacy has held almost axiomatic status. This course argues that determinate meaning is real and can be investigated systematically. Using Dowling's The Senses of the Text, we consider arguments for determinate meaning, and apply these theories in close readings of several texts including Amis' The Information.
480AC - Canons Culture Interp Practice This course looks at the afterlife of certain well-known novels, investigating their modern incarnations as well as shifts in their critical fortunes. We consider the rules and conventions of reproduced texts and what these conventions tell us about interpretive practice.
480AD - After Theory:Politics & Theory Theory and practise often become the opposition between theory and politics where theory is reproached for not being sufficiently political. This course looks at the political relevance of efficacy of theory. It examines the reasons for theoretical resistance, and studies the emergence of Cultural Studies. *** Prerequisite: Min. of 60 credit hours with min. average of 70%. ***
480AE - Frye: The Secret of Literature For Northrop Frye, myth and metaphor constitute the social function of literature by suspending reference. Frye?s claim will be compared to Jacques Derrida?s proposition that suspending reference (the secret) is analogous to the mysteries of the Bible, and indispensable to the political survival of democracy.
485 - Special Studies in Literature - an AA-ZZ series. ** Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
485AA - History of Rhetoric The major phases in the evolution of rhetoric from Greek and Roman times through Medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment periods to the twentieth century.
485AB - Postcolonial Literature/Theory An examination of writing in English from former British colonies in the Pacific, Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, and Canada. We will study such currect debates as universality and difference, representation and resistance, nationalism, hybridity, feminism, and language. Students will lead the discussion by presenting seminars on a variety of topics.
485AC - Images of Africa The course examines representations of Africa in African fiction and cinema, as well as in colonial fiction and contemporary western discourse.
485AD - Adv Studies Creative Writing This course combines creative writing with an analysis of what it means to compose literary texts. Students will read various works in which writers such as Annie Dillard, Raymond Carver and William Vollman discuss composition. Assignments will involve creative writng on personal essays.
485AE - Acts of Faith in Literature Religious writing possesses a poetic, or literary quality, and literature often thematizes religious issues. This course examines the different ways in which literature gives an experience of what Jacques Derrida calls "religion without religion," an experience of religion without the traditional, Judeo-Christian dogma.
485AF - Narrative and Trauma This course examines tests that use narratives as a response to trauma. These texts focus on particular lives, but also on larger events that have caused cultural truama: Korean comfort women, Treblinka extermination camp, slavery, and the Holocaust.
485AG - Medieval/Renaiss Paleography This course studies the development of handwriting from Anglo-Saxon times to the seventeenth century. Students will be given lectures on the history of handwriting and will be expected to learn to read, transcribe, and edit sample pages from manuscripts. *** Prerequisite: Prospective honours students only. For admission to the course, students must have completed a min. of 60 credit hours and have an average of at least 70% both overall and in ENGL courses. *** ** Must request a permit override from the faculty. **
485AH - Prehistoric Romance This course examines fictional depictions of prehistoric human societies from the late nineteenth century to today. It will pay particular attention to the way that discoveries in paleoanthropology have affected popular conceptions of prehistoric men and women. *** Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours, and an average of at least 70% both overall and in English courses. ***
485AI - Arthurian Literature This course studies the major works of Arthurian-themed literature from the medieval period to the twentieth century. After considering the historical origins of the figure of King Arthur, we study a variety of fictional iterations of the Arthurian court, from Chretien de Troyes to T.H. White. *** Prerequisite: 60 credit hours of courses and an average of at least 70% overall and in English courses. Request for a Permit Overide is required. ***
485AK - Advanced Studies in Genre/Creative Writing This course is an intensive workshop in the craft and practice of creative writing with detailed instruction in genre-based criticism. It aims to eluciate connections between the student's own writing and the literary and critical traditions that they seek to join. *** Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours of courses and have an average of at least 70% both overall and in English courses. ***
485AL - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry This course is an intensive workshop in creative writing with detailed instruction in poetry. The main focus of the course is to develop a manuscript of poems examining a central topic. *** Prerequisite: A minimum of 60 credit hours and an average of at least 70% overall and in English courses. ***
485AM - Literature and Ethics This course will explore the ethical dimensions of literature from several perspectives: the positive effects of reading literary texts the representation of ethical relationships within texts, and the role of authors as ethical actors and public intellectuals within society. ***Prerequisite: **Intended for Honors or prospective Honors students only. Students who are not English Honors majors require permission of the Department Head to register.**
485AO - Advanced Creative Writing This course is an intensive workshop in the craft and practice of creative writing. It will focus on creative non-fiction, short fiction, and poetry. Students will also learn the rudiments of editing as they work with one another's manuscripts.
485AQ - Poetics: Theory and Practice Starting with Aristotle's Poetics, this class will turn to a variety of twentieth-century authors (John Ashbery, Etty Hillesum, Robert Hass, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Anne Simpson) to examine how these writers have broadened Aristotle's treatments of poetics to include, among other things: ekphrasis, ethics in the face of atrocity, existential experience, and how a poetics might be devised that responds to the cultural changes and political events set in motion during the twentieth century.
485AR - Prehistoric Fiction The course examines fictional depictions of prehistoric human societies from the late nineteenth century to today, as a way of understanding hominization, or the way human beings might have evolved into the exceptional species that we are today. It will pay particular attention to the way that discoveries in paleoanthropology have influenced popular conceptions of prehistoric men and women.
485AS - Advanced Studies in Writing Fiction: Writing the Body This is an advanced creative writing course in the art of fiction. Students will complete instructive exercises as well as a weighty, self-designed project around the broadly inclusive theme of ?writing the body.? This theme invites consideration of our material lives with an emphasis on the body as a site of knowledge and experience. **Permission of the Department Head is required to register.** *** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 & 110.***
490 - Honours Essay I Work towards an Honours Essay. Students will be expected to submit a draft or preliminary work. As an alternative to a scholarly treatise, the essay may take the form of a creative work with a critical introduction. *** Prerequisite: Completion of 90 credit hours *** ** Permission of the Department Head is required to register **
491 - Honours Essay II Completion of an Honours Essay, which will be graded by the supervisor in consultation with another member of the faculty. As an alternative to a scholarly treatise, the essay may take the form of a creative work with a critical introduction. ** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **
499 - Bibliography and Methods of Research The goal of this course is to teach techniques of literary research, the process of textual transmission, the editing process, and physical composition of books. Students will have the opportunity to research manuscript documents and variants. *** Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours, and an average of at least 70% both overall and in English courses. ***
801AC - Medieval/Early Modern Romance This course explores the construction of masculine gender identity in the literary representations of the institution of chivalry. Focusing on the romance, students will study expressions of chivalric masculinity in martial, social, spiritual, erotic, familial and other contexts, moving from the 12th century texts of Chretien de Troyes to Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene.
802AA - Spenser: The Faerie Queene This course will read all six books of the Faerie Queene as a struggle with the dangers of idolotry. It also focusses on Spenser's concern for the private and public virtues, especially with the "politics of friendship."
802AC - Poststucturalism and Shakespeare This course uses select plays by Shakespeare as test cases to examine the challenges presented by five poststructuralist approaches - deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and queer theory. The course explores how poststructuralism aids us in formulating an ethics of the other in Shakespeare's plays.
802AD - Advanced Studies in 16th Century English The course asks how early modern English writers of peotry, drama, and fiction situated themselves in relation to the powerful Ottoman Empire, Barbary pirates, and Mediterranean trade. How did they imagine religious, racial, and national identity? How did literary form function in their imagining? What historical experiences informed their fiction-making?
802AE - Shakespeare as Cultural Icon This course examines the ways in which Shakespeare has been used as a national and international icon, both to maintain institutionalized power and to serve as a resistance point for underprivileged groups. We trace this fundamental paradox through the cultural reception of four popular, contested plays in the Shakespeare canon.
803AE - John Donne:Cultural Engagement This course proposes two objectives: to engage critically with John Donne's works as a microcosm of cultural developments of the late 16th and early 17th century in England, and to examine the ways in which his works were received by subsequent generations.
803AF - The Body in 17th Century Literature Using a number of theoretical approaches, we will examine representations of the body and its functions in literary and medical texts from the 17th century. We will consider how these representations reflect cultural values and perpetuate gender, economic, nationalist, and colonialist ideology.
804AA - Jonathan Swift The major works of Jonathan Swift.
804AB - She-Tragedy This course examines the phenomenon of the female scapegoat, who is intended to serve both as a cure and an indictment for society's sexual double standard, in representative male-authored tragic drama of the 17th and 18th centuries, and culminates in an examination of Richardson's novel Clarissa.
804AC - 18th Century Women's Fiction This course will examine a selection of fiction written by women between 1688 and 1798 using several theoretical approaches.
804AE - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama This course will sample some of the plays written between 1660 and 1700. Although the primary focus of the plays will be on comedy, the selections will include a broad sample of genres, including heroic tragedy, tragedy, experimental farce, and ballad opera.
804AF - Melancholy & Madness in the 18th-Century This course explores the under-belly of the so-called "Age of Reason" by examining a range of literary and medical representations of melancholy and madness. We will supplement our investigations with a series of critical texts, and topics of discussion will centre around the relationship between eighteenth-century mental illness and gender, genius, culture, and creativity.
805AC - Wordsworth This course examines the poetry of Wordsworth from the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 to The Prelude of 1805.
805AD - Gender and Genius: The Genesis of Romanticism This course will explore the Romantic period and the concept of genius from its origins in copyright law to the gender issues arising from the Latin word, ingenium. We will study Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Mary and Percy Shelley, and the paradoxically unconscious state of genius as both a sign of mastery and yet an unmasterable gift.
806AC - Transition to Modernity This course examines the changes in the relation between the individual and society, in available epistemological frameworks, in gender identities, and in the representation of desire through the study of texts written in England between 1860 and 1920.
806AD - Poetry of G. M. Hopkins An examination of the poetry and poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
806AF - The Brownings A study of the poetry and literary relationship of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
806AG - Science Gender - 19C Fiction The course examines how Darwinian views of sexual difference influenced the portrayal by both male and female authors of fictional characters in the later nineteenth century.
806AH - Victorian Literature: Liberalism and Social Justice Novel This course treats liberal political philosophy as a key but occluded context for Victorian social-justice novels. Topics include public and private space, and their right relationship; political rights and the juridicial person; women, class, and suffrage; parliamentary and social reform; and the role of education in bringing rights into being.
806AI - Inventing England: Myths of Nationhood and Nationalism in the Long 19th Century Beginning with Benedict Anderson's touchstone Imagined Communities this course examines modern thinking about the meaning of nations and nationalism in texts and cultural expressions ranging from Nelson's column to Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
806AJ - Studies in the Nineteenth Century: Crimes and Misdemeanours This course examines ideas of Victorian social order through their opposite or underside, disorder, with particular reference to the ideas of crim and sin, and to theories of criminality, punishment, and rehabilitation, in high realist tests as well as sensation and detective fiction.
806AK - 19th C. Aesthetic Literature A study of 19th century aestethic literature, including aspects of Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, the Decadence and Nonsense Literature. Graduate Studies Students only.
807AD - Virginia Woolf A study of the novels and essays of Virginia Woolf.
807AF - British Novels - New Millenium This course studies the fiction of some of England's newest literary stars including, Monica Ali, Jonathan Coe, Jim Crace, Will Self and Zadie Smith. Our focus is on the changing cultural and aesthetic values of English society post-2000. ** Permission from the Graduate Chair is required to register. **
807AG - Women of Modernism This course examines the unique contributions of women writers to a broader modernist aesthetic, as well as how these writers may beseen to play the role of outsiders, questioning and critiquing this modernism itself, and more particularly, its more masculinist incarnations.
807AH - Modernist Poetics A study of the novel and its poetics between 1907 and 1937. The rise of formalist aesthetics in the twentieth century raised questions about the poetics of the novel that writers like Lubbock, Woolf, Joyce, and Forster explored in their novels and essays. Readings include novels and essays on poetics.
807AI - Modernism Popular Culture & the Public Sphere Through an examination of some often marginalized works by canonical modernists, this course explores modernism in its attempts to reach a mass audience through a variety of more popular cultural forms and its recurrent attempts to accupy the role of public intellectual.
807AJ - Ian McEwan This course is an intensive study of the fiction of Ian McEwan, from his early short stories to his recent best-selling novels. Our focus will be on the ethical dimensions of McEwan's work and life, including his role as a public intellectual and activist.
807AK - T. S. Eliot An overview of the career and development of T. S. Eliot, one of the most influential poets and critics of the twentieth century, this course will examine the collected verse, as well as selected plays and critical work.
807AL - Advanced Holocaust Literature This is a course on the study of Holocaust Literature written in English We will study a range of genres, including memoir, novel, short fiction, poetry, drama, and other media to seek to understand the complexity of Holocaust representation in literature. *** Prerequisite: Permission of Graduate Studies ***
808AB - Margaret Laurence This course is an advanced study of Margaret Laurence's Canadian novels "non-fiction", selected African works, and selected criticism of her work.
808AD - Canadian Poetry Since 1970 This course will focus on a reading of key poetic works of the last thirty or so years. Major movements, significant shifts, and work of widely read poets will be examined. We will explore the roles of small presses and literary magazines in the dissemination of contemporary writing in Canada.
808AE - The Canadian Post-Postmodern This course is an examination of late 20th-century and early 21st-century Canadian fiction. It studies Canadian novels published since 1990 to see how they deal with postmodernist skepticism about truth and reality and what, if anything, they have to contribute to the ongoing debate about Canadian identity.
808AF - Indigenous Peoples' Theatre Indigenous people have embraced theatre as a means of expression both professionally and at the community level. This course will examine a selection of short plays by theatre artists including Tomson Highway, Ian Ross and Monique Mojica to determine how they "apply" theatre to heal Indigenous communities from colonial trauma.
808AG - The Canadian West in Fiction The study of individual works of Canadian prairie fiction in the context of a variety of attempts to define "the Canadian West in Fiction."
808AH - Eli Mandel This course will study the poetry and criticism of Saskatchewan writer (and governor-general award winner) Eli Mandel and his contribution to Canadian literature and culture.
808AI - Canadian Literature: Atwood For Margaret Atwood, literature is a powerful complex of self-fashioning, imagining and eyewitnessing, which is never stable or morally neutral. This course examines Atwood's national, environmental, humanitarian and feminist concerns, as well as her postmodern aesthetics and her experimentation with genre.
809AE - Whitman & Dickinson Poetics In this course, we will study two powerful voices in American poetry, nineteenth-century poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. The contrast between is more striking, yet paradoxically their poetry shows many similarities in its bold experimental style and personal subject matter. We will also consider their departure from their predecessors as well as their response to Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?The Poet."
809AF - Henry James A study of Henry James's increasingly complex manipulation of fictional theme and form.
809AG - Emily Dickinson's Poetics Through close reading, analysis, and discussion, this course examines a large number of Dickinson's poems and attempts to understand her poetic technique. In addition, our reading includes critical and theoretical material.
815AD - Gothic Fiction This course examines English Gothic fiction - from its beginnings with Radcliffe, through its Romantic, Victorian and Modernist manifestations, to its contemporary forms - as a repository of the cultural and social ideals and anxieties of the periods in which it is written.
815AF - Utopian Literature Study of a number of works signigicant in the utopian tradition, with attention to Historical and cultural context; themes such as politics, education, the arts, and gender roles; literary features of the genre; and related issues such as the intentional community and city planning.
815AG - Short Fiction of Mavis Gallant & Alice Munro In this course we will examine selected stories of Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro. The course will also consider short story theory.
815AH - Theory & Practice of Genre Criticism This course examines and tests the hypothesis that genre is a--if not the--fundamental way in which readers make sense of texts. After a brief survey of genre theory from classical times to the 19th century, we study the dominant theories of genre from the early 20th century to the present.
815AI - Science Fiction Adaptation The class examines science fiction novel-to-film adaptations in the light of recent adaptation theory. It begins with classic scientific romances by H.G. Wells and then moves to recent adaptations including 2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke/Kubrick), Solaris (Lem/Tarkovsky), and Blade Runner (Dick/Scott).
815AJ - Advanced Studies in Children's Literature and Theory This course examines the genre of children?s literature, focusing particularly on books targeting 9-12 year-old boys and girls published from 1910 through 1950. It also explores a variety of critical and theoretical approaches: reader response, psychoanalytical, genre theory, structuralist/post-structuralist, and gender analysis.
815AK - The English Elegy We will explore the development of the English elegy from Greek and Roman precursors to the Renaissance and through the centuries up to the present moment. Theoretical and contextual concepts in literary theory, anthropology, sociology, and in psychology will also be studied.
815AL - Ideas of the University Special Studies in Genre: Ideas of the university - study of literature about, and set in, universities, with focus on issues such as "pure" versus commercial research, the university as a community and the "town-gown" relationship.
815AM - Literature and Ethics This course will explore the ethical dimensions of literature from several perspectives: the positive effects of reading literary texts, the representation of ethical relationships within texts, and the role of authors as ethical actors and public intellectuals within society.
815AN - Special Studies in Genre: Screening the Text: Modes of Fidelity in Film Adaptation+ This is a genre course focusing on the film adaptations of a variety of source texts. It will review contemporary adaptation theory, note its links to the classic problems of literary interpretation, and pursue a critical discourse based on modes of fidelity and infidelity in the text.
817AA - Poetics of Culture Aspects of the historical development of culture, centred in works of cultural theory from Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot to Raymond Williams and James Clifford. Topics include the relation of class to culture, ethnographic translation of other cultures, nationalism, gender identity, and the relationship between technology and culture.
817AE - Frye: The Secret of Literature For Northrop Frye, myth and metaphor constitute the social function of literature by suspending reference. Frye's claim will be compared to Jacques Derrida's proposition that suspending reference (the secret) is analogous to the mysteries of the Bible, and indispensable to the political survival of democracy.
820AB - Postcolonial Literature/Theory An examination of writing in English from former British colonies in the Pacific, Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, and Canada. We will study such current debates as universality and difference, representation and resistance, nationalism, hybridity, feminism, and language. Students will lead the discussion by presenting seminars on a variety of topics.
820AD - American First Nation Fiction A study of key narratives of N. Scott Momday, James Welch and Leslie Silko, three of the most accomplished and influrntial contemporary First Nations writers in the USA.
820AF - Narrative and Trauma This course examines tests that use narrative as a response to trauma. These texts focuson particular lives, but also on larger events that have caused cultural trauma: Korean comfort women, Treblinka extermination camp, slavery, and and the Holocaust.
820AG - Medieval/Renaiss Paleography This course studies the development of handwriting from Anglo-Saxon times to the seventeenth century. Students will be given lectures on the history of handwriting and will be expected to learn to read, transcribe, and edit sample pages from manuscripts.
820AH - Prehistoric Romance This course examines fictional depictions of prehistoric human societies from the late nineteenth century to today. It will pay particular attention to the way that discoveries in paleoanthropology have affected popular conceptions of prehistoric men and women.
820AI - Arthurian Literature This course studies the major works of Arthurian-themed literature from the medieval period to the twentieth century. After considering the historical origins of the figure of King Arthur, we study a variety of fictional iterations of the Arthurian court, from Chretien de Troyes to T.H. White.
820AJ - Literary London This course examines the historical and contemporary representation of London in a number of literary genres. Students will prepare a conference paper for the July 2007 Literary London conference in the UK.
820AK - Advanced Studies in Genre/ Creative Writing This course is an intensive workshop in the craft and practice of creative writing with detailed instruction in genre-based criticism. It aims to elucidate connections between the student's own writing and the literary and critical traditions that they seek to join.
820AL - Women & Education in the 19th Century This course examines women's educations between 1791, when Anne Radcliffe wrote Romance of the Forest, and 1898, when Henry James published Turn of the Screw.
820AM - Advanced Creative Writing II This course combines creative writing with an analysis of poetics. Students will both read the poetics of other writers and write a 20-50 page ms. of poetry.
820AN - A Poetics of Place: Writing the Yukon This course explores the theory and craft of representing place in poetry and creative non-fiction. Assignments include a suite of poems and a creative non-fiction essay, as well as critical introductions to the work.
820AO - Advanced Creative Writing III This course is an intensive workshop in the craft and practice of creative writing. It will focus on creative non-fiction, short fiction, and poetry. Students will also learn the rudiments of editing as they work with one another's manuscripts.
820AP - Eighteenth Century Sexualities This seminar will explore issues of gender and sexuality in Eighteenth Century culture, including literature, artwork, music, and fashion.
820AQ - Poetics: Theory and Practice This class turns to a variety of twentieth-century authors to examine how they have broadened Aristotle's treatments of poetics to include: ekphrasis, ethics in the face of atrocity, existential experience, and how a poetics might be devised that responds to the cultural changes and political events set in motion during the twentieth century.
820AR - Prehistoric Fiction The course examines fictional depictions of prehistoric human societies from the late nineteenth century to today, as a way of understanding hominization, or the way human beings might have evolved into the exceptional species that we are today. It will pay particular attention to the way that discoveries in paleoanthropology, the scientific study of prehistoric humanity, have influenced popular conceptions of prehistoric men and women.
820AS - Advanced Studies in Writing Fiction: Writing the Body This is a creative writing course specializing in fiction. Included are instructive exercises and a self-designed project around the theme of "writing the body". This theme invites consideration of our material lives with an emphasis on the body as a site of knowledge and experience.
822AA - Adv Studies Creative Writing This course combines creative writing with an analysis of what it means to compose literary texts. Students will read various works in which writers such as Annie Dillard, Raymond Carver and William Vollman discuss composition. Assignments will involve creative writing and personal essays.
822AL - Creative Non-Fiction: The Experimental Memoir This course is a study of creative non-fiction (the memoir and lyric essay), and how this kind of writing differs from the novel. **Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**
840AD - Adv Stud Rudyard Kipling This course is an intensive study of the work of Rudyard Kipling in four primary contexts: biographical, historical, post-colonial, and gender-theoretical. Reading will focus on Kipling's work for children and on his tales and poems of Empire.
840AE - This Visual and Performative Nature of Lewis Carroll's Fantasy Literature This course will focus on Lewis Carroll's work, especially the "Alice stories", and its relation to generic theories of fantasy, particularly as they illuminate the work of late Victorian children's literature. We will look particularly at the theatrical and visual nature of Carroll's work, and will examine relevant theories of intertextuality and performativity.
840AF - Rhetorical Cultures and the Teaching of Writing The focus of this course will be theory and praxis. The major text (Farrell) develops a social constructionist vision of rhetoric, which entails historical, theoretical, and practical (applied) dimensions of the subject. Farrell highlights the Aristotelian "mood" of contingency. Two essay collections will give angles on writing cultures in Canada.
840BA - Restor/18C Lit:Write Mid Class The course examines literary changes during the 18th century in England effected by the rise of mercantile economics and political republicanism, and the influence of the middle class. The primary course requirement is 50 pages of writing for submission to a scholarly journal. ** Permission of the Graduate Chair is required to register. **
840BB - Desire and the Figuration of Women This course examines the ways that medieval female writers represent desire and the body. It considers the paradox inherent in cultures that deny the body and desire, but which build elaborate structures to heighten the latter.
840BC - Colonial Education and the Coming-of-Age Narrative This course is an overview of main concerns in postcolonial theory, particularly the importance of education in former British colonies. Its main focus is the coming-of-age narrative, particularly in the context of former colonies such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Caribbean.
