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(B.A.)
A-level courses introduce all students to the study of English at the university level. ENGA11Y is designed both for students planning a Specialist, Major, or Minor Program in English and for students having a general interest in literature or the twentieth century. ENGA12H is available for those students enrolled in ENGA11Y who want training in writing essays for English courses. It is required of English specialists and majors before they take ENGB01Y, a course that continues instruction in the writing of English essays.
ENGB01Y and ENGB02Y are required for all students planning a Specialist or Major Program in English. Other B-level courses require no prerequisites and are available both to beginning and to more advanced students.
C-level courses, as their prerequisites indicate, are designed to build upon previous work and presuppose some background in critical skills and some familiarity with the subject matter.
D-level courses provide opportunities for more sophisticated study and require some independent work on the part of the student. These courses are generally restricted in enrolment and may involve the presentation of seminars.
Students are advised to check the prerequisites
for C- and D-level courses when planning their individual Programs,
and to consult with the Supervisor of Studies or the Discipline
Representative before taking courses on other campuses.
Supervisor: Until June
30, 2001
G. Leonard (416-287-7141)
July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2002
A. Patenall (416-287-7159)
Ten full-course equivalents in English are required.
They should be selected as follows:
1. ENGA11Y Introduction to Literary Study: The Twentieth Century
2. ENGA12H Writing Workshop for ENGA11Y (Students who have successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99 do not need ENGA12H to fulfil requirements for a Specialist Program in English.)
3. ENGB01Y Critical Thinking and Writing
4. ENGB02Y English Literature: Historical Survey
5. One full-course equivalent from the Geographical Series: ENGB07Y; ENGB08Y; ENGB17H; ENGB18H; ENGB19H (ENGB23Y); ENGB25H; ENGC02Y; ENGC12Y; ENGC18Y; ENGC61H; ENGC62Y
6. One of the C-level Historical Series: (ENGC20Y, ENGC32Y, ENGC37Y (ENGC42Y))
7. One full-course equivalent at the D-level
8. Additional full-course equivalents, at least 2 of which must be at the C-level, to bring the total number of English courses successfully completed to ten (10) full-course equivalents.
Supervisor: Until June
30, 2001
G. Leonard (416-287-7141)
July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2002
A. Patenall (416-287-7159)
Seven full-course equivalents in English are required.
They should be selected as follows:
1. ENGA11Y Introduction to Literary Study: The Twentieth Century
2. ENGA12H Writing Workshop for ENGA11Y (Students who have successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99 do not need ENGA12H to fulfil requirements for a Major Program in English.)
3. ENGB01Y Critical Thinking and Writing
4. ENGB02Y English Literature: Historical Survey
5. Additional full-course equivalents, at least 2
of which must be at the C- or D-level, to bring the total number
of English courses successfully completed to seven (7) full-course
equivalents.
Supervisor: Until June
30, 2001
G. Leonard (416-287-7141)
July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2002
A. Patenall (416-287-7159)
Four full-course equivalents in English are required.
They should be selected as follows:
1. ENGA11Y Introduction to Literary Study: The Twentieth Century
2. ENGA12H Writing Workshop for ENGA11Y (Students who have successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99 do not need ENGA12H to fulfil requirements for a Minor Program in English Literature.)
3. Additional full-course equivalents, at least 1
of which must be at the C-level, to bring the total number of
English courses successfully completed to four (4) full-course
equivalents.
Supervisor: A. Patenall (416-287-7159)
Four full-course equivalents in English are required. They should be selected as follows:
1. ENGA11Y Introduction to Literary Study: The Twentieth Century
2. ENGB05Y What is Culture?
3. 2 additional full-course equivalents, at least 1 of which must be at the C-level.
An introduction to literary and cultural concerns in the twentieth century through the study of works written in English from the beginning of the century to the present day.
As an introduction to university-level critical reading and interpretation, this course will analyse the writing of twentieth-century men and women from a range of backgrounds and nationalities. As well as looking closely at selected works from the last 100 years, we will consider questions such as: how do individual texts and writers fit into larger movements or make up an era? how does the literature of our century both reflect and help us come to terms with the complex realities of our world? what is the relationship between what we read and how we make sense of ourselves and others? Marks will be based on in-class writing assignments, quizzes and exams. Students wishing to supplement this course with training in university-level essay-writing for English and all students planning to continue the study of English should take ENGA12H while they are enrolled in ENGA11Y.
NOTE: Students who successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99 do not need ENGA12H to gain admission to ENGB01Y.
Exclusion: (ENGA01, ENGA08), ENG140
An adjunct to ENGA11Y, providing intensive training in critical writing for English courses.
This course is designed to develop the essay-writing skills required for the study of English literature at the university level. It will make use of group workshops in which attention will be given to writing techniques and strategies of argumentation; to questions of appropriate tone and voice; to research techniques; and to proper bibliographic style. As well as providing a general consideration of essay writing appropriate for introductory English studies, the course will also devote some time to special kinds of writing, such as abstracts and writing in time-controlled situations. Assignments will be coordinated with the current ENGA11Y and will reflect writers and topics studied there.
NOTE: Students who have successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99 do not need to take ENGA12H to gain admission to ENGB01Y.
Co-requisite: ENGA11Y
Course Co-ordinator: G. Leonard
(416-287-7141)
An introduction to critical writing and an exploration of selected critical approaches to literary texts.
This course will study closely a small number of texts from different periods as a means of becoming acquainted with the variety of critical approaches available today. Through an examination of selected critical essays, students will develop their own critical approaches and their analytical and writing skills.
This course is required for Majors and Specialists in English.
Exclusion: (ENGA01)
Prerequisites: ENGA11Y & ENGA12H
NOTE: Students who have successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99 do not need to take ENGA12H to gain admission to ENGB01Y.
Course co-ordinator: D. Bennett
(416-287-7139)
A selective survey of English literature built around 12 focus texts or authors representing key aspects of English literary history and culture from 700 through 1900.
We will explain these works or authors: 1) in conjunction with related works; 2) in reference to the culture to which they contributed and from which they sprung;
3) in terms of their dominant genres, themes, concerns, and literary devices.
The primary goal of this course is to make students more at ease with pre-twentieth-century literature by providing useful background knowledge and demonstrating historically inflected ways of reading. By the end of the course, students should have a basis for approaching other texts dating from the middle ages through the nineteenth century.
Focus texts and authors may change yearly, and will be announced in the first class.
NOTE: This is exclusively a lecture and examination course. Students are advised to combine this course with English B01Y in order to include group discussion, a detailed study of the tools of literary analysis, and practice in essay writing in their study of English.
Exclusion: ENG202
Prerequisite: ENGA11Y
A.J.G. Patenall/C. Bolus-Reichert
A text-based exploration of the development and emergence of "culture" as a concept and as a field of study.
What is the relationship between culture and civilization? Culture has often been associated with a society's artistic and imaginative expression, but can we discuss culture today without reference to science and technology? What does a group's culture tell us about its social and political organization and its attitudes to race, class, gender, sexuality and nationhood? How do we distinguish between mainstream culture and subcultures, between industrial and post-industrial culture, or between "high" culture and "low"? We will explore the ways in which new approaches to culture are redefining the nature of English literary studies. Drawing on a wide range of materials - including literary texts, film, videos, advertisements, visual art, and hypertext - this course will offer multicultural perspectives on such topics as contemporary media and communications, popular and commodity culture, technology, musical subcultures, and the history of the cinema.
T.B.A.
A broad survey of literature in the United States.
Examining the many different cultural points of view operating within the framework of the American experience, this course will explore such questions as: What is the make-up and significance of the American Dream? What is distinct about the American Hero? How are such human dilemmas as good versus evil, or sin versus redemption, presented and interpreted in an American context? The reading will include cultural and historical background material as well as literary texts by such writers as Hawthorne, Dickinson, Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wright, Morrison, and Bellow.
Exclusion: ENG250
T.B.A.
A study of at least eleven plays by Shakespeare, both as unique works of art and in the larger context of his work as a Renaissance dramatist. A list of texts will be available in H-525A.
Exclusion: ENG220
A study of drama in English from 1880 to the present.
Introduction to various dramatic forms through a reading of eighteen plays. The course will introduce students to various dramatic genres and methods, such as realism, expressionism, mannerism, etc. Filmed versions of several of the plays will be viewed and compared to the texts from which they derive.
Exclusion: (ENGC50Y), ENG338Y
A study of fiction, drama, and poetry from the English-speaking Caribbean.
Much of the finest writing in English today is by writers who live in or who come from parts of the world other than Britain or North America. Nobel-Prize winner Derek Walcott is just one of the many fine writers to come from the Caribbean.
A major concern will be the creative ways West Indian writers use language, inflecting English in the direction of orality. West Indian writers are faced with the task of naming a world that feels misnamed, of telling a story where the possibility of story has been denied, of recovering the history of a place without relics or memorials. Writers to be considered will include novelists such as Naipaul, Mais, Lovelace, Kincaid, and Lamming; poets such as Walcott, Brathwaite, Goodison; and dramatists such as Walcott, Rhone, and the Sistren Collective. These works will be considered in their historical, political, and religious contexts.
N. ten Kortenaar
A study of fiction and poetry written in English from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the South Asian diaspora.
Much of the finest writing in English today is by
writers who live in or who come from parts of the world other
than Britain or North America. In particular, there is a boom
among writers from the Indian subcontinent that finds an echo
among writers of South Asian ancestry around the globe. In this
course we will consider how South Asian writers respond to a history
of imperialism, alter English to reflect an Indian scene, refract
the realism associated with Europe, and depict Hinduism, Islam,
and modernity.
Writers to be studied may include Narayan, Desai, Rao, Ghosh, Rushdie, Mistry, Chandra, and Roy from India; Sidhwa and Suleri from Pakistan; Gunesekera, Gooneratne, and Ondaatje from Sri Lanka; as well as Vassanji from East Africa, Naipaul from Trinidad, Kureishi from Britain. We may look at short texts translated from Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, or Malayalam, by way of comparison.
N. ten Kortenaar
An introduction to the short story as a literary form.
The course examines the special appeal of the short story for writers and readers, the particular effects it is best able to produce, and its origins and recent development. The reading will be drawn from different countries and periods in order to explore the variety of possibilities within the form.
Exclusion: ENG213
T.B.A.
An introduction to children's literature.
This course will locate children's literature from the nineteenth century to the present within the history of social attitudes to children and in terms of such topics as authorial creativity, race, class, gender, behaviour, and nationhood, topics that become altered as different generations read "classic" texts and as different critical approaches reinterpret children's literature.
Exclusion: ENG234
T.B.A.
A study of the evolution and forms of detective fiction.
We will examine the formal rules that govern detective fiction and that have made it a mainstay of mass media as well as a genre that has influenced literary narratives. In addition, we will consider the social contexts that have helped the detective genre become a popular fictional form that has cut across classes, cultures, and continents.
Exclusion: ENG236H
T.B.A.
A survey of narratives found in the Bible, and an examination of the way they have influenced, or been made use of by, English-language writers.
Students in the course will read a wide range of selections from the Bible and from literary sources, and will explore both through assigned readings and through a final project, the way writers and our culture have made use of the Biblical stories.
Exclusion: ENGB40
A close study of works by at least four and no more than six American authors.
This course will look at the writing of a selected group of writers in terms of a topic such as literary tradition; national themes, ideals and attitudes; questions of identity; and geographical grounding.
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, one of which must be in English]
T.B.A.
An exploration of Victorian literature and its relation to culture and society, 1837-1901.
Texts will be selected to illustrate such compelling Victorian concerns as the construction of class identities; the question of sexual difference and its relationship to social organization; ideas about childhood and how best to regulate it; prevailing concepts of the primitive, the savage and the civilized; the notion of "englishness" and its definition through representations of "others"; and distinction between "high" and "low" art. Texts will be drawn from a variety of forms - essay, novel, poem, tract - by such writers as Arnold, the Brontes, the Brownings, Carlyle, Carroll, Darwin, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, Haggard, Hardy, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Thackeray, Tennyson, and Wilde.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, one of which must be in English]
An exploration of literature and its wider culture from the English Civil War through the interregnum, Restoration, and the first half of the eighteenth century.
In this course we will be studying a particularly violent and turbulent time in English cultural history. In it, England plunged into civil war; a King was beheaded; religious extremists took power (closing the theatres); the executed King's exiled son was asked to return to rule (and reopened the theatres); London burned down and suffered the plague. English literature and culture saw similarly bizarre and extraordinary changes. We will read such authors as John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Aphra Behn, the Earl of Rochester, Alexader Pope and Jonathan Swift. We will cover such topics as the rise of women's writing, apocalyptic and prophetic writing, the Restoration stage, and satire. We will concentrate on how writers responded to (and sometimes contributed to) the often shocking and alarming events and trends of the time.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y and one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full equivalents at the B-level, one of which must be in English]
A study of at least twelve works, chosen from novels, novellas, and collections of short stories.
We will look at the way that various forces of modernity-the rise of the modern city, World War I, the invention of photography and cinema, the development of mass-media and popular culture-shaped the literary movement general referred to as "modernism". Featured writers will include Joseph Conrad, Henry James, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Rhys, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield and Rebecca West. We will also look at selected cinematic works: Metropolis, Un Chien Andalou, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and the films of Charlie Chaplin.
Exclusion: ENG328
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, one of which must be in English]
An approach to the concept of "the West" as a myth, a metaphor, and a fantasy fundamental to the vision of the settlers of the United States, but challenged by Native North American ideas about life and the world.
We will look, through selected texts, at "the woods" of Hawthorne, Poe and Hemingway; the forests and Indians of Cooper and the construction of the American as cowboy from the Indian Captivity Narratives of the first settlers to the contemporary works of Sam Sheppard and Cormac McCarthy. Native writers may include Erdrich, Welch, and Silko. We will also look at classic Hollywood Westerns.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, one of which must be in English]
A detailed study of several Canadian novels in the context provided by myth and history.
The course will examine the significance of myth and history in the work of several Canadian fiction writers; the function of myth in literature and in culture; the Canadian writer's relation to tradition; and the interplay between past and present. We will consider work by such Canadian writers as MacLennan, Watson, Laurence, Kroetsch, Davies, Richler, Ondaatje, and King.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, one of which must be in English]
A substantial project chosen by the student and supervised by one faculty member. It is the responsibility of the student to locate a supervisor.
Admission by permission of the supervisor of studies and of the instructor. Enrolment in this course is limited to one or two students per year. For more details, contact the supervisor of studies.
Prerequisite: ENGB60Y
A study of a variety of fictional, semi-fictional, and non-fictional accounts of travels and travellers through 1830.
For centuries, travel literature has been enormously popular, while travellers-whether pilgrims, astronauts, or immigrants-have held a special place in society. Travel literature has been exceptionally widely read and respected, returned travellers have been lionized and/or attacked, and imaginative literature has been filled with travel and travellers. How does travel function in the culture at large? In its literature? In the lives of individuals? What domestic preoccupations do travel and travel writing reflect? Closing our study with the development of mass travel in the early 19th century, we will address travel forms ranging from the forced transportation of slaves to pilgrimage to exploration and to tourism, reading works by such as Homer, Lucian, Margery Kempe, Sir John Mandeville, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Nashe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Jonathan Swift, and John Bartram.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English] or [ENGB05Y and one C-level full-course equivalent in English]
An examination of five or six Shakespeare plays from the period 1590-1596.
These plays are considered in the light of their theatrical and dramatic antecedents, as well as in terms of the Shakespearean drama they precede.
Limited enrolment: 24
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y and one further full-course equivalent in English] or [ENGB05Y & one C-level full-course equivalent in English]
Richard Ellman summarized the importance of James Joyce when he said "we are still learning to be his contemporaries."
Our primary texts will include Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. In addition we will read essays that apply contemporary literary theory to Joyce's fiction in order to align our own various interpretations of Joyce's fiction with the insights we find there. Of special interest to us in our reading of Joyce will be his complex and ambivalent depictions of such presumably "simple" and "self-evident" structures as identity, gender, power, pleasure, sexuality, history, capitalism, popular culture, imperialism/colonialism, advertising, and what has been labelled "commodity culture" in the twentieth century. Always we will be alert to how Joyce outlined, more than fifty years ago, the modern world we struggle to live in and understand today.
Limited Enrolment: 20
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y and one further full-course equivalent in English] or [ENGB05Y and one C-level full-course equivalent in English]
An investigation of the myth of the open road in North American writing.
The course will focus on the way the road has served to organize American narratives, in contrast to more ambivalent Canadian responses to the road. Reading will comprise approximately six full-length works (including Twain, Huckleberry Finn; Kerouac, On the Road; and Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy) and some additional selections.
Limited Enrolment: 24
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one C-level full-course equivalent in English]
Short stories and novels narrated in the first person will be examined to account for the extraordinary prevalence of first-person narratives specifically in the American literary tradition.
We will examine American themes such as individuality, idealism, and freedom, as well as their inverse forms: paranoia, unreliability, and ambiguity. From Melville, Twain, Poe and Hawthorne to the Modernist works of Hemingway, Faulkner, Stein and Fitzgerald, the first-person prose narrative has proved to be a form pliable enough to suit a wide variety of artistic inclinations and a diverse array of writers in the American tradition. Contemporary writers, such as Bellow, Ellison, Roth, Morrison Erdrich and Pynchon continue to make first-person stories and novels a significant element of American fictional narrative.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English] or [ENGB08Y & ENGC12Y] & [one other full-course equivalent in English]
A study of lines of influence on writing by Canadians of Asian descent.
As a case study, this course will focus on the ways
in which writers of Asian descent in Canada -- writers whose only
point of commonality may well be their shared Canadian citizenships
-- accept and reject the shaping influence of the multiple
environments in which they exist. Through term projects, students will have the opportunity to work on such questions as the influence of acquired and inherited social and artistic traditions; the effect of working with the complexity of today's media; and the roles audiences play in shaping the literary text.
In-class texts will include books by such writers as Lee, Ondaatje, Mistry, Wah, Choy, Kogawa, Goto, Sakamoto, and Vassanji. For comparison purposes, the course will also look at one or more novels by Margaret Laurence.
This seminar will require both individual and group work; oral and written presentations; and reading beyond those texts considered in class.
Limited enrolment: 24
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y and one further full-course equivalent in English] or [ENGB05Y & one C-level full-course equivalent in English]
A scholarly project, chosen by the student and supervised by one faculty member. Approval by the faculty in English must normally be obtained by the student before the end of the previous spring term.
The student writes a substantial essay on a literary subject under the supervision of a member of staff. It is the responsibility of the student to locate a supervisor; advice on this matter may be sought from the Discipline Representative. The following deadlines should be observed: by the last day of the previous spring term a brief statement of the area of the project, signed by the supervisor should be submitted to the Discipline Representative. By November 15th a more specific statement of the project is to be submitted, including the exact title of the proposed study and a short description of its subject and method. After the topic has been approved by the discipline, a second reader will be appointed.
Exclusion: (ENGC14Y), ENG490
Prerequisite: Open only to students completing the
last five courses for the four-year degree, and who have at least
three full-course equivalents in English, at least one at the
C-level.
ENGB07Y3 Canadian Literature: An Introduction
Exclusion: ENG252
ENGB23Y3 World Literature Written in English
Exclusion: (ENGB20, ENGB21) ENG253Y
Prerequisite: ENGA11Y & ENGA12H
ENGB25H3
The Canadian Short Story
Exclusion: ENG215
ENGB41H Science Fiction
Exclusion: ENG231H
ENGB50Y3 Women and Literary Study
Exclusion: ENG233
ENGB60Y3 Creative
Writing
Exclusion: ENG369Y
ENGB64H3 Native
North American Literature
Exclusions: ENG254Y, ENGD64H
ENGC02Y3 Canadian Fiction in English
Exclusion: (ENGB27)
Prerequisite: One full-course equivalent in
English
ENGC32Y3 The Renaissance
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y
& one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course
equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC37Y3 Literature and Culture, 1740-1830
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y
and one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course
equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC38Y3 The Rise of the Novel
Exclusion: (ENGB17) ENG322
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y
& one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course
equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, one of which
must be in English]
ENGC61H3 The West in American Literature
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y
& one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course
equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC63Y3 Literature and Travel
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y
& one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course
equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC70Y3
The Gothic Tradition
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y
& one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course
equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC71Y3 The Immigrant Experience in Literature
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y
& one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course
equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC75H3 The Body: Theories and Representations
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y
& one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course
equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
or [VPAB01H]
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