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English

(B.A.)

Faculty List


W.J. Howard, M.A., S.T.B. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Leeds), Professor Emeritus
R.M. Brown, M.A., Ph.D. (Binghamton), Professor
D. Bennett, M.A. (Connecticut), Associate Professor
M.C. Cuddy-Keane, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) Associate Professor
M.B. Goldman, M.A., (Victoria), Ph.D. (Toronto), Professor
N. ten Kortenaar, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), Associate Professor
G. Leonard, M.A., Ph.D. (Florida), Associate Professor
A.J.G. Patenall, M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Birmingham), Associate Professor
C. Bolus-Reichert, M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana), Assistant Professor
N. Dolan, M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard), Assistant Professor
S. Lamb, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), Assistant Professor
S. Winters, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), Assistant Professor

Discipline Representative: M. Goldman

(416-287-7157)

Supervisor of Studies: R. Brown (416-287-7166)

The discipline of English involves not only study of the great works of literature but also training in complex modes of interpretation and communication that are invaluable in our increasingly media-saturated world. At Scarborough, the curriculum offers courses in the English-language literatures of Britain, Canada, America, and other areas of the world. All courses place emphasis on close responsive reading, critical thinking, and clarity of expression.

A-level courses introduce students to the study of English at the university level. ENGA10H and ENGA11H are designed both for students wanting an introductory course in the Specialist, Major, or Minor Program in English and for students having a general interest in literature or the twentieth century.

ENGB01H, ENGB02H, ENGB03H and ENGB04H are required for all English Programs. B-level courses have 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.

Students planning to pursue graduate studies in English are advised to consult the Supervisor of Studies about appropriate programs of study.

NOTE: For Co-op opportunities related to the Specialist and Major Programs in English, please see the Calendar entry for the Humanities Co-operative Program, page 124.

SPECIALIST PROGRAM IN ENGLISH

Supervisor: R. Brown (416-287-7166)

Eleven full credits in English are required. They should be selected as follows:
1. ENGB01H Critical Writing About Poetry
2. ENGB02H Critical Writing About Narrative
3. ENGB03H Critical Thinking About Narrative
4. ENGB04H Critical Thinking About Poetry
5. Three full credits from courses whose content is pre-1900:
ENGB08H Collisions of Culture and the Emergence of a Liberal Nation
ENGB10H Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGB43H The Bible and Literature II
ENGC10H Studies in Shakespeare
ENGC20H Victorian Poetry and Prose, 1830-1900
ENGC21H The Victorian Novel
ENGC32H The Golden Age: Elizabethan Literature
ENGC33H Literature of Deceit and Dissent: 1603-1660
ENGC36H Literature and Culture 1640-1750
ENGC37H Literature and Culture, 1750-1830
ENGC38H Novel Genres: Fiction, Journalism, News, and Autobiography 1640-1750
ENGC39H The Early Novel in Context, 1740-1830
ENGC42H Romanticism
ENGC64H Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre, Spectacle, and Drama
ENGC74H Comedy, Satire, and Humour, 1660-1830
Relevant D-level courses
6. At least one half credit in Canadian literature
7. 5.5 additional credits in English
8. Among the eleven full credits required for the Specialist, students must include at least three full credits at the C-level and one full credit at the D-level

NOTE: Students may count no more than one of the following courses towards the Specialist requirements:
ENGB35H Children's Literature
ENGB36H Detective Fiction
ENGB41H Science Fiction

The following course cannot be counted towards the Specialist requirements:
ENG100H Effective Writing

MAJOR PROGRAM IN ENGLISH

Supervisor: R. Brown (416-287-7166)

Eight full credits in English are required. They should be selected as follows:
1. ENGB01H Critical Writing About Poetry
2. ENGB02H Critical Writing About Narrative
3. ENGB03H Critical Thinking About Narrative
4. ENGB04H Critical Thinking About Poetry
5. Two full credits from courses whose content is pre-1900:
ENGB08H Collisions of Culture and the Emergence of a Liberal Nation
ENGB10H Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGB43H The Bible and Literature II
ENGC10H Studies in Shakespeare
ENGC20H Victorian Poetry and Prose, 1830-1900
ENGC21H The Victorian Novel
ENGC32H The Golden Age: Elizabethan Literature
ENGC33H Literature of Deceit and Dissent: 1603-1660
ENGC36H Literature and Culture 1640-1750
ENGC37H Literature and Culture, 1750-1830
ENGC38H Novel Genres: Fiction, Journalism, News, and Autobiography 1640-1750
ENGC39H The Early Novel in Context, 1740-1830
ENGC42H Romanticism
ENGC64H Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre, Spectacle, and Drama
ENGC74H Comedy, Satire, and Humour, 1660-1830
Relevant D-level courses
6. Four additional full credits in English.
7. Among the eight full credits required for the Major, students must include at least two full credits at the C- or D-level

NOTE: Students may count no more than one of the following courses towards the Major requirements:
ENGB35H Children's Literature
ENGB36H Detective Fiction
ENGB41H Science Fiction

The following course cannot be counted towards the Major requirements: ENG100H Effective Writing

MINOR PROGRAM IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Supervisor: R. Brown (416-287-7166)

Four full credits in English are required. They should be selected as follows:
1. ENGB01H Critical Writing About Poetry
2. ENGB02H Critical Writing About Narrative
3. ENGB03H Critical Thinking About Narrative
4. ENGB04H Critical Thinking About Poetry
5. One full credit at the C- or D-level
6. One additional full credit in English.

NOTE: The following course cannot be counted towards the Minor requirements:
ENG100H Effective Writing

ENGA10H3 Introduction to Literary Study: 1890 to World War II

An exploration of how literature reflects the artistic and cultural concerns that shaped the first part of the twentieth century. An introduction to university-level critical reading and interpretation, this course will analyse the writing of early twentieth-century men and women.
Exclusion: ENG140Y, (ENGA11Y)

ENGA11H3 Introduction to Literary Study: 1945 to Today

An exploration of how literature reflects the artistic and cultural concerns that shaped the world after the Second World War. An introduction to university-level critical reading and interpretation, this course will analyse the writing of late twentieth-century men and women from a range of backgrounds and nationalities.
Exclusion: ENG140Y, (ENGA11Y)
Prerequisite ENGA10H

ENGB01H3 Critical Writing about Poetry

Intensive training in critical writing about poetry. Essay-writing skills (organization and argumentation; tone and voice; bibliographic style) for the study of English at the university level through group workshops and weekly writing assignments that culminate in two term papers. Assignments, coordinated with ENGB04, reflect authors and topics studied there.
Exclusion: (ENGA12H), ENG269Y
Corequisite: ENGB04H

ENGB02HCritical Writing about Narrative

Intensive training in critical writing about narrative. Essay-writing skills (essay form and style; research techniques, secondary resources) for the study of English at the university level, through group workshops, and weekly writing assignments that culminate in two term papers. Assignments, co-ordinated with ENGB03, reflect authors and topics studied there.
Exclusion: (ENGA12H), ENG269Y
Corequisite: ENGB03H.

ENGB03H3 Critical Thinking About Narrative

An introduction to the literary analysis of narrative and to critical writing.

This course will study closely a small number of narratives and narrative genres from different periods in order to develop the critical skills to analyse narratives.
Exclusion: (ENGB01Y), ENG110Y
Corequisites: ENGB02H

ENGB04H3 Critical Thinking About Poetry

An introduction to the literary analysis of poetry.

This course will study closely poems and poetic forms from different periods in order to develop the critical skills to analyse poetry.
Exclusion: (ENGB01Y), ENG201Y
Corequisites: ENGB01H .

ENGB06H3 Canadian Literary Traditions

An examination of large issues and themes that have shaped Canadian literature. Focusing on the development and emergence of a Canadian literary tradition, this course examines the problems of writing in a New World nation, the emergence and definition of an indigenous tradition, and the challenges such a tradition faces.
Exclusion: (ENGB07Y), ENG252Y

ENGB07H3 Nation in Canadian Writing

An examination of the formation of identity, of a sense of belonging, and of the problematics of nationhood in Canadian writing.
Exclusion: (ENGB07Y), ENG252Y

ENGB08H3 Collisions of Culture and the Emergence of a Liberal Nation

An examination of Early American literature in historical context from colonization to the Civil War. This introductory survey places a wide variety of genres - including conquest and captivity narratives, theological tracts, sermons, and diaries, as well as classic novels and poems - in relation to the multiple subcultures of the period.
Exclusion: (ENGB08Y), ENG250Y, ENG358Y

ENGB09H3 American Literature from the Civil War to the Present

An introductory survey of major novels, short fiction, poetry, and drama. An introductory survey of major novels, short fiction, poetry, and drama from  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Rita Dove's Thomas and Buelah, with an emphasis on themes of immigration, ethnicity, modernization, individualism, class, and community.
Exclusions: (ENGB08Y), ENG358Y
Prerequisite: ENGB08H3

ENGB10H3 Introduction to Shakespeare

An introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. Through the study of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Hamlet, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, this course provides an introduction to the Elizabethan playhouse, the acting companies, and the development of drama.
Exclusion: (ENGB10Y), ENG220Y

ENGB11H3 The Beginnings of Modern Drama

A reading of plays from 1879 to the 1930s and after. Talking Ibsen's A Doll's House as the starting point, the course looks at drama by Pinero, Shaw, Wilde, and other authors - such as David Belasco, Stanley Houghton, John Galsworthy, Eugene O'Neill and Terence Rattigan.
Exclusion: (ENGB11Y), ENG338Y

ENGB13H3 Drama after 1960

An exploration of drama in English since 1960. Authors studied will include playwrights such as Harold Pinter, Brian Friel, Caryl Churchill, August Wilson, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Tomson Highway, Athol Frugard, David Hwang, Sam Shepard, Beth Haney, and others .
Exclusion: (ENGB11Y), ENG339H

ENGB17H3 Contemporary Literature from the Caribbean

A study of fiction, drama, and poetry from the West Indies. The course will examine the relation of standard English to the spoken language; the problem of narrating a history of slavery and colonialism; the issues of race, gender, and nation; and the task of making West Indian literary forms.
Exclusions: ENG253Y, (ENGB23Y)

ENGB19H3 Contemporary Literature from South Asia

A study of literature in English from South Asia, with emphasis on fiction from India. The course will examine the relation of English-language writing to indigenous South Asian traditions, the problem of narrating a history of colonialism and Partition, and the task of making the novel South Asian.
Exclusions: ENG253Y, (ENGB23Y)

ENGB24H3 Courtship in Literature

A variety of literary works that portray courtship. An examination of the treatment of courtship in literature and the way it has been affected by shifts in gender definition and in the nature of the family. We will consider the larger issues and anxieties that courtship literature addresses or responds to.

ENGB25H3 The Canadian Short Story

A study of the Canadian short story. The Canadian short story has been vital to the Canadian literary tradition and has produced writers of international stature, including Munro, Atwood, Laurence, and Gallant.
Exclusion: ENG215H

ENGB34H3 The Short Story

An introduction to the short story as a literary form. This course examines the origins and recent development of the short story, its special appeal for writers and readers, and the particular effects it is able to produce.
Exclusion: ENG213H

ENGB35H3 Children's Literature

An introduction to children's literature. This course will locate children's literature within the history of social attitudes about children and in terms of such topics as authorial creativity, race, class, gender, and nationhood.
Exclusion: ENG234H

ENGB36H3 Detective Fiction

A study of the evolution and forms of detective fiction. This course examines the formal rules that govern detective fiction - a mainstay of mass media and a genre that has influenced literature - and the social contexts that make this a genre that has cut across classes, cultures, and continents.
Exclusion: ENG236H

ENGB41H3 Science Fiction

An examination of the genre of science fiction. This course will look at different forms of this genre (novels, short stories, and films) emphasizing the way a popular genre comes into being, the effect on the form of innovation, and the interaction that exists between science fiction and literary writing.
Exclusion: ENG237H

ENGB42H3 The Bible and Literature I

Literary analysis of the first five books of the Bible and consideration of their profound influence on literature. This course considers both the literary nature of and the influence on literature of such narratives as the fall of Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, Abraham's binding of Isaac, and the story of Moses.
Exclusion: (ENGB40H), (ENGB42Y)

ENGB43H3 The Bible and Literature II

Literary analysis of the poems, narratives, and other literary forms in later Hebrew Scriptures (such as The Song of Solomon, Job, Jonah, Jeremiah) and the New Testament, and extended consideration of selected literary texts. Texts from English literature such as Melville's Billy Budd and Milton's Paradise Lost (selections) will be included.
Exclusions: (ENGB40H), (ENGB42Y)
Prerequisite: ENGB42H3

ENGB46H3 Victorian Theatres and Music Halls

A study of mid-to-late-nineteenth century British drama and theatre. An interdisciplinary course. Same as VPDB16H.
Exclusion: (VPAC33Y), VPDB16H

ENGB50H3 Women and Literature: Forging a Tradition

An examination of the development of a women's tradition of writing. By considering the legacy and impact of writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, C. Bronte, and Virginia Woolf, this course examines the idea of a tradition of women's writing.
Exclusion: (ENGB50Y), ENG233Y

ENGB51H3 Gender and Genre

An analysis of the role of gender in the fiction, poetry, and drama. This course will examine such things as the genres women have gravitated toward and excelled at in the light of Woolf's claim that the novel was a genre not entirely formed and thus most accessible to women.
Exclusion: (ENGB50Y)

ENGB60H3 Creative Writing: Poetry

An introduction to the writing of poetry. This course will provide an introduction to the writing of poetry through workshop sessions. Admission by portfolio (consult department secretary for details).
Exclusion: (ENGB60Y), ENG369Y

ENGB61H3 Creative Writing: Fiction

An introduction to the writing of fiction. This course will provide an introduction to the writing of short fiction through workshop sessions. Admission by portfolio (consult department secretary for details).
Exclusion: (ENGB60Y), ENG369Y

ENGB64H3 Native North American Literature

An introduction to Native North American writing with an emphasis on First Nations literature and culture of the last 30 years. Dealing with the literatures of a broad range of peoples and a wide variety of genres and styles, students will explore such issues as identity, representation, transmission, and translation.
Exclusions: ENG254Y

ENGB75H3 Cinema & Modernity I

An investigation of film genres such as melodrama, film noir, and the western from 1895 to the present. We will look at the creation of an ideological space and of new mythologies that helped organize the experience of modern life. Works of twentieth-century prose and poetry will also be studied.

ENGB76H3 Cinema & Modernity II

An investigation of film genres such as romance, gothic, and science fiction from 1895 to the present. We will look at the way cinema developed and created new mythologies that helped people organize the experience of modern life. Works of twentieth-century prose and poetry will also be studied.
Exclusion: ENG238H

ENGC02H3 Major Canadian Authors

An examination of three or more Canadian writers. This course will draw together selected major writers of Canadian fiction or of other forms.
Exclusion: (ENGC02Y)
Prerequisites: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H] or ENGB06H or ENGB07H

ENGC03H3 Representation in Canadian Fiction

An analysis of Canadian fiction with regard to the problems of representation. Topics considered may include how Canadian fiction writers have responded to and documented questions of the local; of social rupture and historical trauma; and of the problematics of representation for marginalized societies, groups, and identities.
Exclusion: (ENGC02Y)
Prerequisites: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H] or ENGB06H or ENGB07H

ENGC10H3 Studies in Shakespeare

Four chronicle history plays, and three "historical" tragedies of Shakespeare. Through study of Marlowe's Edward II, and Shakespeare's Henry VI part III, Richard III, Richard II, Julius Caesar, King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra, this course explores Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupation with history in political and social contexts of the time.
Exclusion: (ENGB10Y)
Prerequisites: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H] or ENGB10H

ENGC12H3 Individualism and Community in Classic American Literature

An exploration of the tension in American literature between two conflicting concepts of self. We will examine the influence on American literature of the opposition between an abstract, "rights-based," liberal-individualist conception of the self and a more traditional, communitarian sense of the self as determined by inherited regional, familial, and social bonds.
Exclusion: (ENGC12Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC14H3 Concepts in Literary History

A study of the concepts and methodologies of literary history. This introduction to the development and practice of literary history since the Renaissance will consider artistic and intellectual movements; the concepts and difficulties of periodization; the political, social, and cultural imperatives of literary canonization; and the history of English as a discipline
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC15H3 Concepts in Literary Criticism

A study of selected topics in literary criticism.
Exclusions: ENG267H
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC20H3 Victorian Poetry and Prose, 1830-1900

Poetry and nonfiction prose of the Victorian period. An examination of authors such as Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rossettis, Macaulay, Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Arnold, Morris, Pater, and Wilde and of a culture in transition: the Condition of England; the Woman Question; liberty and equality; imperialism and nationalism; theology and science; aestheticism and decadence.
Exclusion: (ENGC20Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC21H3 The Victorian Novel

A study of major works of Victorian fiction, 1830-1900. This course examines five or six Victorian novels, with attention to the social, political, and moral dilemmas of a culture in transition. Authors studied might include Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy.
Exclusion: (ENGC20Y), ENG324Y
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC26H3 Drama: Tragedy

An exploration of major dramatic tragedies in the classic and English tradition. Tragedy has been thought of as one the earliest and most profound literary forms, having ritual and philosophical implications and inspiring theoretical treatises beginning with Aristotle's Poetics.
Exclusion: (ENGB12Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

Alternative pre/co-requisites: VPDB10H & VPDB11H

ENGC27H3 Drama: Comedy

An exploration of comedy as a major form of dramatic expression. Theatrical comedy has been thought of as having a social as well as literary dimensions (healing rifts; providing carnivalesque escape; mocking folly).
Exclusion: (ENGB12Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

Alternative pre/co-requisites: VPDB10H & VPDB11H

ENGC30H3 Topics In Medieval Literature

A study of selected medieval texts by one or more authors.
Exclusions: ENG300Y; ENG330H
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC31H3 The Romance: In Quest of the Marvelous

A study of the romance as genre. The romance as episodic tale of marvellous adventures and questing heroes has been both criticized and celebrated. This course looks at the range of a form stretching from Mallory and Spenser through Walter Scott and the BrontÎs to postmodern writers such as Pynchon.
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC32H3 The Golden Age: Elizabethan Literature

Prose, poetry and drama from the Age of Queen Elizabeth. Texts include More's Utopia, Sidney's Defence of Poesie, Spenser's The Faerie Queene (Book II and Mutabilitie Cantos) , Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost and Merchant of Venice, and Lyly's Gallathea, plus selections from such authors as Ascham, Greene, Hooker, Wyatt, Surrey, and Drayton.
Exclusions: (ENGC32Y), ENG302Y
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC33H3 Literature of Deceit and Dissent: 1603-1660

A reading of literature from the early Stuart period of political and intellectual turmoil. Core authors include Bacon, Donne, Milton, as well as drama by Webster, Jonson, Massinger and Ford. Texts include selections from Bacon, Essays and Novum Organu; Browne, Religio Medici; Andrewes, Sermons; poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, Quarles and Marvell.
Exclusion: (ENGC32Y), ENG306Y
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC36H3 Literature and Culture 1640-1750

Studies in literature and literary culture during a turbulent era that was marked by extraordinary cultural ferment and literary experimentation. During this period satire and polemic flourished, Milton wrote his great epic, Behn her brilliant comedies, Swift his bitter attacks, and Pope his technically balanced but often viciously biased poetry.
Exclusion: ENG306Y, (ENGC36Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC37H3 Literature and Culture 1750-1830

An exploration of literature and literary culture during the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. We will trace the development of a consciously national culture, and birth of the concepts of high, middle, and low cultures. Authors may include Johnson, Boswell, Burney, Sheridan, Yearsley, Blake, and Wordsworth.
Exclusion: (ENGC37Y), ENG306Y
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC38H3 Novel Genres: Fiction, Journalism, News, and Autobiography 1640-1750

An examination of generic experimentation that began during the English Civil Wars and led to the novel. We will address such authors as Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe, alongside news, ballads, and scandal sheets; and look at the book trade, censorship, and the growth of the popular press.
Exclusion: (ENGC38Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC39H3 The Early Novel in Context, 1740-1830

A contextual study of the first fictions that contemporaries recognized as being the novel. We will examine the novel in context of its readers; of neighbouring genres such as letters, non-fiction travel writing, conduct manuals; and of culture more generally. Authors may include Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Austen and others.
Exclusion: (ENGC38Y), ENG322Y
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC41H3 Contemporary Fiction

Developments in recent English-language fiction.
Exclusion (ENGC41Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC42H3 Romanticism

A study of the Romantic movement in European literature, 1750-1850. This course investigates the cultural and historical origins of the Romantic movement, its complex definitions and varieties of expression, and the responses it provoked in the wider culture. Examination of representative authors such as Goethe, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, P. B. Shelley, Keats, Byron, and M. Shelley will be combined with study of the philosophical and historical backgrounds of Romanticism.
Exclusion: (ENGC42Y), ENG308Y
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC45H3 Early Nineteenth Century British Theatre: From Sheridan to Boucicault

A study of theatre and drama in Britain from the late eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. An interdisciplinary course. Same as VPDC16H.
Exclusion: (VPAC33Y), VPDC16H
Prerequisite: ENGB46H or VPDB16H, or permission of instructor.

ENGC55H3 Literature and Media: The Spoken Word and the Visual Page

The ways media shape literature. Literary works have existed in oral forms (from early epics to contemporary sound poetry and literature written for radio) shaped by auditory techniques and limitations, as well as in the visual medium of print on the page and of images integrated into the text (medieval manuscripts, Blake, graphic novels).
Exclusion: (ENGC55Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC56H3 Literature and Media: From Page to Screen

Written literature and film and television. What happens when literature influences film and vice versa, and when literary works are recast as visual media (including the effects of rewriting, reproduction, adaptation, serialization, and sequelization).
Exclusion: (ENGC55Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC59H3 The West in American Literature

The "West" as myth and a metaphor in the shaping of American identity. An examination of written narratives and films will focus on the construction of the American West, the relationship of the "Indian" to Native writers, and contemporary efforts to de-romanticize the West.
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC61H3 Mythic Backgrounds to Literature

An analysis of selected myths and approaches to myth. Readings include early literary works such as The Odyssey and The Epic of Gilgamesh and later texts such as The Waste Land and Fifth Business, as well as selections from commentators on myth such as Fraser, Frye, Jung, and Campbell.
Exclusion: (ENGC62Y)
Prerequisites: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H] or [ENGB42H & ENGB43H]

ENGC62H3 Myth and Canadian Fiction

An examination of Canadian writing in the context provided by myth. The course will examine the significance of myth studied in ENGC61 for work by such Canadian writers as MacLennan, Watson, Laurence, Ondaatje, Bringhurst, and King.
Exclusion: (ENGC62Y)
Prerequisite: ENGC61H

ENGC63H3 Travel and Travellers in Literature

A study of fictional, semi-fictional, and non-fictional accounts of travel. Reading works by such writers as Homer, Lucian, Margery Kempe, Sir John Mandeville, Raleigh, Nashe, Lady Montagu, Swift, and John Bartram, we will study travel accounts ranging through the forced transportation of slaves, pilgrimage, exploration, and tourism.
Exclusion: (ENGC63Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC64H3 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre, Spectacle, and Drama

A study of the relationships between drama, theatre, and public spectacle in the Restoration and eighteenth century. This period saw the introduction of women onto stage, theatrical coronations, executions as public spectacles, freak shows, and brilliant comedy. We will address the culture of spectacle and the dramatic works that emerged.
Exclusion: (ENGC36Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC66Y3 Independent Studies: Creative Writing

An opportunity for students who have excelled in introductory creative writing to pursue independent study.
Prerequisites: [ENGB60H or ENGB61H] and permission of the instructor.
Exclusion: ENG390Y

ENGC69H3 Gothic Literature

A study of the Gothic tradition in literature since 1760. "Gothic" is a dark style in the arts, a language of terror, recognizable by allusions to ruined castles, graveyards, sublime landscapes, religious superstition, and plots involving imprisonment and torture, nightmares of the unconscious mind, and monstrous deformities of the human body.
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC70H3 The Immigrant Experience in Literature I

An examination of twentieth-century literature, especially fiction, written out of the experience of people who leave one society to come to another already made by others. We will compare the literatures of several ethnic communities in at least three nations, the United States, Britain, and Canada.
Exclusion: (ENGC71Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC71H3 The Immigrant Experience in Literature II

A continuation of ENGC70H, focusing on texts written since 1980.
Exclusion: (ENGC71Y)
Prerequisite: ENGC70H

ENGC72H3 Contemporary Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa

A study of fiction, drama, and poetry from English-speaking Africa. The course will examine the relation of English-language writing to indigenous languages, to orality, and to audience, as well as the issues of creating art in a world of suffering and of de-colonizing the narrative of history.
Exclusions: ENG253Y, (ENGB23Y)

ENGC74H3 Comedy, Satire, and Humour, 1660-1830

A study of literary works meant to provoke laughter, ridicule, or amusement. We will examine works emerging from a culture that had yet to equate forms that induced laughter with levity and that therefore seriously played in the no man's land between pain and horror and between pleasure and delight.
Exclusion: (ENGC37Y)
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC76H3 The Body: Theories and Representations, Part One

An interdisciplinary course about the body in art, film, photography, narrative and popular culture.

How bodies are written or visualized as 'feminine' or 'masculine,' as heroic, as representing normality or perversity, beauty or monstrosity, legitimacy or illegitimacy, nature or culture. Same as VPHC47H.
Limited enrolment: 45
Exclusion: (VPAB01H), VPHC47H
Pre/Corequisites: Two full credits from ENGB01H, ENGB02H, ENGB03H, ENGB04H, (ENGB01Y), (ENGB02Y), VPHA40H, (VPAA40H), VPAA05H, (VPAA41Y), (VPAA45H), VPAB05H, (VPAB49Y), VPHB57H, (VPAB57H), WSTA01H, (WSTA01Y), or permission of the instructors

ENGC77H3 The Body: Theories and Representations, Part Two

A course focusing on the experience of the body in the public spaces of the modern city and in cyberspace. Of special interest will be the viewpoints of artists, writers, and filmmakers who explore how the 'other' is constructed in terms of class, culture, and ethnicity. Same as VPHC48H.
Exclusion: VPHC48H
Pre/Corequisites: Two full credits from ENGB01H, ENGB02H, ENGB03H, ENGB04H, (ENGB01Y), (ENGB02Y), VPHA40H, (VPAA40H), VPAA05H, (VPAA41Y), (VPAA45H), VPAB05H, (VPAB49Y), VPHB57H, (VPAB57H), WSTA01H, (WSTA01Y), or permission of the instructors

ENGC79H3 Utopian Literature

Imagined visions of ideal worlds. Texts might include Plato's Republic, Thomas More's Utopia, James de Mille's Strange Ms. in a Copper Cylinder, Charlotte Perkin Gilman's Herland, and some twentieth century examples.
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC80H3 Modernity: Modernism and Literature 1900-1950

s The aesthetic movements (dadaism, futurism, vorticism, surrealism) that gave rise to modernity and the modernist literary movements that followed.
Limited enrolment: 40
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGC81H3 Modernity II: Post-modernism and Other Developments in Literature 1950 to the Present

Reactions to modernity and modernism since 1950. This course investigates the various ways writers of the later twentieth century began to understand "reality" and how that shaped their writing. We will look at how post-colonialism, post-structuralism, multiculturalism, and feminism emerged in this era to contest how the "centre" constructed the "margin".
Limited enrolment: 40
Prerequisites: ENGB03H & ENGB04H

ENGD01H3 History in the New World

An introduction to post-colonial theory that looks at the problem of narrating the past when that past includes conquest, slavery, and colonization. We will look at works of historiography, theory, fiction, and epic poetry, primarily from Latin America and the Caribbean, to explore the problem of telling the history of the Americas.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD03H3 Topics in Contemporary Literary Theory

A study of selected topics in recent literary theory.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: ENGC15H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD06H3 Poetry and Christianity

An exploration of Christian and anti-Christian poetry in English from the Bible to the present, with an emphasis on the themes of faith and doubt, love and hate, and the erotic. Writers studied may include Donne, Herbert, Milton, Cowper, the Rossettis, Tennyson, Hopkins, Eliot, and Stevie Smith.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD15H3 Problems in Early Shakespeare

An examination of five or six Shakespeare plays from the period 1590-1596.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD16H3 Problems in Late Shakespeare

An examination of textual and editorial, as well as aesthetic and dramatic, problems in the later works of Shakespeare.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD17H3 Shakespeare's Contemporaries

A selection of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD40H3 Confessional Poetry

The emergence of the confessional voice in American and British poetry. Authors emphasized will be Robert Lowell, Ann Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD41H3 T.S. Eliot

The poems, plays, and essays of T.S. Eliot, one of the founders of literary modernism.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD42H3 James Joyce

A study of Joyce's work and accomplishments. Texts include Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD43H3 Studies in Romanticism, 1750-1850

Topics in the literature and culture of the Romantic movement. Topics vary from year to year and might include Romantic nationalism, the Romantic novel, the British 1790s, or American or Canadian Romanticism.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: (ENGC42Y)
Prerequisites: ENGC42H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD51H3 Alice Munro

A study of the short fiction of Alice Munro.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD60H3 The Problem of a Liberal Culture: Emerson and Nineteenth-Century Cultural Prophets

A study of the nineteenth-century construction of theories of identity and culture. We will examine the major works of Emerson along with selected works of Tocqueville, Mill, Arnold, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Nietzsche as efforts to construct a post-enlightenment, post-revolutionary, trans-Atlantic substitute for the feudal-aristocratic Christian culture of the ancien regime.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: ENGC12H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD61H3 James Baldwin, the African-American Experience, and the Liberal Imagination

A study of the fiction, drama, and essays of James Baldwin and their cultural context.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: ENGC12H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD62H3 Power and Perception: Imperialism, Colonialism, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Fiction

An exploration of multicultural perspectives on issues of power, perception, and identity as revealed in literary treatments of imperialism and colonialism in the twentieth century
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD77H3 Women Travellers before 1830

A study of selected women travellers and their writings before 1830. We will address both traveller and audience expectations of women travelling in roles as diverse as those of pilgrims, tourists, wives of diplomats, and colonists.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD78H3 The Open Road in North American Narrative

An investigation of the myth of the open road in the North American imagination. From Huckleberry Finn to recent novels, non-fiction accounts, and films, stories about travelling the open road have helped to organize the larger American narrative.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD80H3 Women and Canadian Writing

A study of the remarkable contribution of women writers to the development of Canadian writing. Drawing from a variety of authors and genres (including novels, essays, poems, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and travel writing), this course will look at topics in women and Canadian literature in the context of theoretical questions about women's writing.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD84H3 Canadian Writing at Century's End

An analysis of features of Canadian writing at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. This course will consider such topics as changing themes and sensibilities, canonical challenges, and millennial and apocalyptic themes associated with end of the twentieth century.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD85H3 The Image of the Home in North American Fiction

An investigation of home as organizing concept and thematic symbol in Canadian and American writing. This course will consider how focusing on home (one of the universal concepts around which narratives get organized) influences the way we read and how we read within the context of culture and gender.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD86H3 The Scriblerians

A survey of the major writings of the short-lived but highly influential Scriblerus Club (founded 1714).
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD87H3 Between Traditions and Freedoms: Writing by Canadians of Asian Descent

A study of lines of influence on writing by Canadians of Asian descent.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD88H3 Michael Ondaatje

A study of the novels, poems, memoir, and prose of one of Canada's major writers.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD89H3 Studies in the Victorian Period

Topics vary from year to year and might include Victorian children's literature; city and country in Victorian literature; science and nature in Victorian writing; aestheticism and decadence; or Tennyson and Browning.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: ENG443
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD96H3 Narrative and Interactivity

A study of how narratives in various media interact with the reader. We will examine such questions as the degree to which reader-response can be termed interactivity; how readers shape the outcome of narratives; and how narratives can be deformed by interactivity and still retain coherence and consistency.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisites: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD98Y3 Senior Essay

A scholarly project chosen by a student and supervised by a faculty member. Students should discuss their proposals with appropriate faculty or with the Discipline Representative.

Open only to students with a strong record who are completing the last 5 courses of a 4-year degree. Students must have completed at least 3 full-course equivalents in English, at least one at the C-level. This course is contingent both on the student's being accepted by a faculty supervisor and on the approval by the Scarborough English faculty as a group, normally in the winter session before the student's final year.
Exclusion: ENG490Y

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