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English
(B.A.)
W.J. Howard, M.A., S.T.B. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Leeds), Professor Emeritus
R.M. Brown, M.A., Ph.D. (New York), Professor
M.C. Cuddy-Keane, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) Associate Professor
J. Kay, M.A. (Glasgow), M.A., Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), Associate Professor
G. Leonard, M.A. (Florida), Ph.D. (Florida), Associate Professor
A.J.G. Patenall, M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Birmingham), Associate Professor
K. Theil, M.A., Ph.D. (Yale), Associate Professor
E.P. Vicari, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), Associate Professor
Discipline Representative: E.P. Vicari (287-7134)
The study of English encompasses English, Canadian, and American literatures as well as other literatures written in the English language. The curriculum offers a broad range of courses designed to enable students to gain a comprehensive knowledge of a rich literary tradition. In addition, sequences of courses are available (in historical periods, in specific genres, in national literatures, and in particular authors) that allow students to pursue individual interests at greater depth. In all courses, emphasis is placed on close responsive reading, critical thinking, and clarity of expression.
The A-level course introduces all students to the study of English at the university level. The course is designed both for students planning a Specialist or Major Programme in English and for students having a general interest in the subject.
English B01Y and B02Y are required for all students planning a Specialist or Major Programme in English.
Other B-level courses require no prerequisite and are therefore available both to beginning and to more advanced students. C-level courses, as their prerequisites indicate, are designed to build upon previous work in English and presuppose some background in critical skills and some familiarity with the subject matter. D-level courses (which are equivalent to 400-level courses on the St. George Campus) 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 consult the prerequisites for C and D-level courses when planning their individual programmes, and to check with the Discipline Representative before taking courses on other campuses.
The Specialist programme in English offers an opportunity to develop skills in close responsive reading, critical thinking and clarity of expression. It encompasses the rich tradition of many literatures which use the English language as the medium of expression.
Supervisor: D. Bennett
Ten full-course equivalents in English and two in other disciplines in the Divisions of Humanities or Social Sciences are required. They should be selected as follows.
1 ENGA11Y Reading Literature: The 20th Century
2 ENGB01Y Critical Thinking and Writing
3 ENGB02Y English Literature: Historical Survey
4 ENGD02F Literary Theory and Criticism
ENGD03S Topics in Contemporary Literary Theory
5 Five additional full-course equivalents in English at the A, B, or C-level, including:
a) two full-course equivalents in periods before 1800, one of which must be at the C-level (see list A)
b) two full-course equivalents in periods after 1800, one of which must be at the C-level (see list B)
6 One further full-course equivalent in English at the D-level
7 Two further courses in the Division of Humanities or the Division of Social Sciences.
Supervisor: D. Bennett
Seven full-course equivalents in English are required. They should be selected as follows:
1 ENGA11Y Reading Literature: The 20th Century
2 ENGB01Y Critical Thinking and Writing
3 ENGB02Y English Literature: Historical Survey
4 Three additional full-course equivalents in English at the B, or C-level, one of which must be at the C-level. These three courses must include:
a) one full-course equivalent in periods before l800 (See List A)
b) one full-course equivalent in periods after 1800 (See List B)
5 One full-course equivalent in English at the D-level
Pre-1800 courses:
ENGB10Y Shakespeare
ENGC30Y Chaucer
ENGC32Y Prose and Poetry of the English Renaissance 1500-1660
ENGC33Y English Drama to 1642
ENGC36F/S English Literature of the Early 18th Century
ENGC37F/S English Literature of the Late 18th Century
ENGC38Y Fiction before 1832
Post-1800 courses:
ENGB07Y Canadian Literature in English: an Introduction
ENGB08Y American Literature: an Introduction
ENGB20F/S Contemporary Literature in English: Africa and the West Indies
ENGB21F/S Contemporary Literature in English: Australia and India
ENGB24Y Canadian Fiction in English
ENGB25F/S The Canadian Short Story
ENGB26F/S Canadian Drama
ENGB34F/S The Short Story
ENGB35F/S Children's Literature
ENGB36F/S Detective Fiction
ENGC12Y Major American Authors
ENGC20Y The Victorians
ENGC41Y Contemporary Fiction
ENGC42Y The Romantics
ENGC50Y Twentieth-Century Drama
ENGC61Y The West in American Literature
ENGC62Y Myth and History in Canadian Literature
ENGC63Y Literature and Travel
Supervisor: D. Bennett
Four full-course equivalents in English consisting of ENGA11Y and any three other full course equivalents in English, one of which must be at the C-level.
ENGA11Y Reading Literature: The 20th Century
Telephone ID #: 05511163
An introduction to literary and cultural concerns in the twentieth century through a study of selected works written in English, from the beginning of the century to the present day.
Drawing on a range of works by men and women from different nationalities and backgrounds, we explore what is involved in the activities of reading and writing. How does the literature of this century both reflect and help to produce the complex realities of our world? What is the relationship between what we read and how we make sense of ourselves? The study of literature involves an examination of what it means to communicate and to interpret; it is therefore a preparation for reading and interpreting any kind of text, and a way of learning to organize and present one's thoughts effectively. A selection of written assignments will help students to develop essay writing skills.
Note: This course is designed to accommodate any student with an interest in reading at the university level. It is also the prerequisite to B01Y, the required introductory course for majors and specialists in the English Programme.
Exclusion: (ENGA01, ENGA08), ENG140
Session: Winter Day, Summer Evening
Course Co-ordinator: K. Theil
Offered: 1998/99
ENGB01Y Critical Thinking and Writing
Telephone ID #: 05520163
Through reading poetry, fiction and essays, we explore a variety of different approaches to literary texts and study ways of communicating responses to literature clearly and effectively in writing.
This course encourages students to think about what makes reading enjoyable (aesthetics) and to develop their critical responses to literature. It aims also to strengthen abilities in writing about literature. In the first term we concentrate on vocabulary development and grammatical accuracy through various written exercises. To develop competence and confidence we study the art of rewriting. In the second term we focus on only one or two major works of literature, allowing time to practice and expand the writing skills learned in the first term and to consider a variety of critical approaches to the selected text/s.
This course is required for Majors and Specialists in English.
Exclusion: (ENGA01)
Prerequisite: ENGA11Y
Session: Winter Day, Winter Evening
Course co-ordinator: A. Hepburn
Offered: 1998/99
ENGB02Y English Literature: Historical Survey
Telephone ID #: 05520263
A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, in the context of relevant intellectual, aesthetic, social, and political developments. Normally taken in conjunction with ENGB01Y.
This course provides a general introduction to the main periods of English literary history -- the Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration, Eighteenth-Century, Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. Reading will be extensive, involving brief selections from approximately fifty writers. The primary text is The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Fifth Edition), Vols. 1 and 2; further texts will be announced.
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, detailed textual study, and practice in essay writing in their study of English.
Exclusion: (ENGA02), ENG202
Prerequisite: ENGA11Y
Session: Winter Day
A. Patenall / M. Cuddy-Keane
Offered: 1998/99
ENGB05Y What is Culture?
Telephone ID #: 05520563
An exploration of the development and emergence of "culture" as a concept and 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 how can we discuss culture 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? Challenges to early definitions of culture as "the best that has been known and thought" may serve as a starting point for exploring the work of recent thinkers and the impact of ideas about culture in redefining the nature of English literary studies. Drawing on a wide range of materials--literary texts, film, videos, advertisements--the course will offer multi-cultural perspectives on such topics as contemporary media and communications, popular and commodity culture, theatre, film studies and history of the cinema.
Session: Winter Day
T.B.A.
Offered: 1998/99
ENGB10Y Shakespeare
Telephone ID #: 05521063
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 H525A.
Exclusion: ENG220
Session: Winter Day
A.J.G. Patenall
Offered: 1998/99
ENGB20F Contemporary Literature in English: Africa and the West Indies
Telephone ID #: 05522033
A study of twentieth-century African and West Indian prose fiction.
Attention will be given to the cultural and political backgrounds as well as to the rhetorical traditions. The works of the most significant writers will be emphasized: e.g. Achebe, Soyinka, Harris, Naipaul, and others.
Session: Winter Day
T.B.A.
ENGB21S Contemporary Literature in English: Australia and India
Telephone ID #: 05522153
A study of twentieth-century Australian and Indian prose fiction.
Attention will be given to the cultural and political backgrounds as well as to the rhetorical traditions. The works of the most significant writers will be emphasized: e.g. Rao, Jhabvala, Narayan, Malgonkar, Keneally, Stow, White.
Session: Winter Day
T.B.A.
ENGB34S The Short Story
Telephone ID #: 05523453
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
Session: Summer Evening
T.B.A.
ENGB35S Children's Literature
Telephone ID #: 05523553
An introduction to children's literature.
This course will contextualize the field of children's literature from the nineteenth century to the present within a larger social history which examines how children have been viewed in Western society. Within this framework, we will examine how children's books are both the product of an individual writer's creative psyche and an encoding of identifiable and evolving social attitudes about children, race, class, gender, behaviour, and nationhood. A variety of theoretical approaches will be explored--psychoanalytic, feminist, reader response, cultural studies--and controversial issues, such as censorship, violence, sexism, and racism, discussed. The instructor will design assignment topics to suit the range of student interests and fields of study.
Exclusion: ENG234
Session: Winter Evening
T.B.A.
ENGB36S Detective Fiction
Telephone ID #: 05523653
An introduction to detective fiction.
Some early and classical examples of the genre will be read as well as a varied selection of twentieth-century novels as we attempt to analyze the appeal of this kind of writing. Eight or nine novels will be chosen from among the following authors: Chandler, Christie, Collins, Conan Doyle, Hammett, Hillerman, Highsmith, P.D. James, Paretsky, Poe, Rendall, Sayers. We will begin with Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter; and Collins, The Moonstone.
Exclusion: ENG236F/S
Session: Winter Day
E.P. Vicari
ENGB60Y Creative Writing
Telephone ID #: 05526063
An introduction to the writing of poetry and short fiction.
This course will provide students with the experience of writing, discussing and revising their own work in a group workshop. Exercises to be assigned will bear on special questions of technique and form and there will also be discussion of the work of some contemporary writers and visits by writers.
Limited enrolment: 16
Exclusion: ENG369
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. A short sample of creative writing should be submitted, normally by August 1 (call 287-7119 for further details).
Session: Winter Day
T.B.A.
ENGC12Y Major American Authors
Telephone ID #: 05531263
A close study of works by at least four and no more than six authors. The texts will be: Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter and selected stories; Faulkner, Light in August; Sanctuary; Nathanael West, A Cool Million, Miss Lonelyhearts; The Day of the Locust; Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood and selected stories; Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise; Richard Ford, The Ultimate Good Luck.
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB08Y]
Session: Winter Day
J. Kay
ENGC20Y The Victorians
Telephone ID #: 05532063
An exploration of Victorian literature and its relation to culture and society 1837-1901.
Our Victorian texts will be drawn from a variety of forms--essay, novel, poem, tract--and will cluster around 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 notions of the primitive, savage and civilized; the notion of "englishness" and its definition through representations of "others"; the distinction between "high" and "low" art. About 8-10 works by writers such as: Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Carlyle, Carroll, Braddon, the Bronts, Darwin, Gaskell, George Eliot, Haggard, Huxley, Martineau, Maudsley, Newman, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Tennyson, Wilde.
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y]
Session: Winter Day
T.B.A.
ENGC32Y Prose and Poetry of the English Renaissance, 1500-1660
Telephone ID #: 05533263
The non-dramatic literature of the English Renaissance from the rise of English humanism to the Interregnum.
A study of English Renaissance literature beginning with sixteenth-century humanism in continental writers and More, responses to the courtly love tradition in the poetry of Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, and Shakespeare, and Spenser's development of the epic. The second half of the course concerns the later Renaissance and the works of Donne, Milton, Jonson, and their contemporaries.
Exclusion: ENG302
Prerequisite: ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y
Session: Winter Day
E.P. Vicari
ENGC36F English Literature of the Early Eighteenth Century
Telephone ID #: 05533633
A study of English poetry, prose, and drama 1700-1745.
In this course we will study the cross-currents of a period in which a literary tradition essentially aristocratic and classical confronted a social structure and readership increasingly middle class. Among other subjects we will consider: the high satire of Pope and Swift; the growth of magazine writing; the changes and decline in drama because of government censorship; the rise of the novel; the close involvement of literature with politics, morality and social values. To help understand the period there will be illustrated lectures on music, art and architecture.
Prerequisites: ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y
Session: Winter Day
J. Kay
Telephone ID #: 05533753
A study of English poetry, prose and drama from 1745-1800.
Through a study of poetry, drama, journals, speeches, and excerpts from novels, we will try to understand the literature of the later 18th Century. Our concern will be with such topics as: the sense of sensibility; the impact of the American and French revolutions on writing; the notion of the sublime in writing; the city as locus and problem in literature; the growth of "horror"; the development of meditative poetry. Lectures on music, art and architecture will help to understand the period.
Prerequisites: ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y
Session: Winter Day
J. Kay
Telephone ID #: 05535063
A study of developments in British, American and European drama in the twentieth century.
This course looks as the renaissance or rebirth of drama in the last hundred years or so, through a concentrated study of modern and contemporary drama. We will explore the emergence of subgenres of drama like realism, expressionism, and theatre of the absurd, and the challenging of such categories by contemporary dramatic experiments. In the fall term we will study plays that were challenging and innovative when first presented but are now "classics" of the theatre, including Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Shaw's Saint Joan, Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, and O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. In the spring term we will turn to works by playwrights who are still challenging readers and audiences with their dramatic experiments today, including Pinter's The Birthday Party, Shepard's True West, Churchill's Cloud 9, Thompson's Lion in the Streets, and Mamet's Oleanna.
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB11Y] or ]ENGB26F/S]
Winter Day
K. Theil
Telephone ID #: 05536263
A detailed study of several Canadian novels in the context provided by myth and history.
The course will examine the use of myth and history in the work of several Canadian fiction writers, and will also consider the function of myth in literature and in culture; the Canadian writer's relation to tradition and the past; and the interplay between past and present. Canadian novels studied may include Hugh MacLennan, Barometer Rising; Sheila Watson, The Double Hook, Margaret Laurence, The Diviners; Robert Kroetsch, Words of My Roaring and The Studhorse Man; Robertson Davies, Fifth Business; Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman; Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion; Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water. Additional reading will include The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, selections from the Bible, and The Waste Land; and selections from writers such as Sir James Frazer and Northrop Frye.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [HISB04 & one full-course equivalent in English]
Session: Winter Evening
T.B.A.
Telephone ID #: 05536363
A study of various forms of travel literature, including narratives of exploration and travel essays, the "international novel" and the "ethnographic novel," fiction of emigration/immigration, and "critical travel": texts which pose questions about crossing boundaries and encountering otherness.
Travelling is exploration, an encounter with what we don't know, and therefore a challenge to the known boundaries of our own culture and selfhood. Travel has been represented both as a quest into the unknown and as a test of the known, since the way we describe the new or foreign land may tell us even more about the "here" than the "elsewhere". This course will raise questions about educative travel and our ability to describe and to "know" others; readings will cover a historical range from the "discover" of the "new" world in the Renaissance, through the rise of educational travel and the emergence of "the tourist" in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, to a wealth of cross-cultural encounters in the Twentieth-Century. Texts will include Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; William Wordsworth, The Prelude (selections); Henry James The American; E.M. Forster, A Room With A View; Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey; Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy; Rohinson Mistry, Tales from Firozsha Baag; Audrey Thomas, Coming Down from Wa.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y] or [ENGA11Y & one B-level course in Humanities or Social Sciences.]
Session: Winter Day
M. Cuddy-Keane
Telephone ID #: 05537063
An exploration of the Gothic tradition from the 1790's to the present.
What are the cultural and historical origins for this genre with its striking presentation of insatiable vampires and vengeful ghosts, violent storms, mad monks, live burials, secret passageways and sinister relatives? The Gothic tradition, like any enduring genre, established ways of exploring tensions relative to identity, fantasy, gender, desire, political power, and fear of the unknown. The genre has proven capable of various mutations from its inception to the present day, allowing it to continue as a viable form of art even as those tensions shift and rearrange themselves from one generation to the next. We will examine both the established code of what constitutes the "gothic" and how later writers subverted or reinterpreted it. How do the best examples of this genre manage both to frighten and reassure? What happens to the tradition when it is appropriated into American and Canadian culture? Why is it as important and dominant a genre in the 1990's as it was in the 1790's? Texts and authors may include Walpole, The Castle of Otranto; Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho; Lewis; Coleridge; Keats; Peacock, Nightmare Abbey; Bront, Jane Eyre; Hawthorne; Poe; Maturin; Stoker, Dracula; Shelley, Frankenstein; Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Warton; Atwood, The Robber Bride; Oates; O'Connor; Rice, Interview with a Vampire.
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y]
Session: Winter Day
A. Hepburn
Telephone ID #: 05540233
An introduction to literary theory. How has the category "literature" been defined? Do the texts that we regard as literature use language in special ways that distinguish them from other kinds of writing? How does the literary text communicate with readers? Where does its value reside? The course will examine 8-10 of the following writers to see how questions about literature have been variously framed and answered: Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Sidney, Dryden, Pope, Johnson,
Wollestonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Arnold, Wilde, Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Leavis, Richards, Brooks.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & two further full-course equivalents in English]
Exclusion: (ENGC59 or ENGD01)
Session: Winter Evening
J. Kay
Telephone ID #: 05540353
A study of selected topics in recent literary theory. The course may take as its focus one or more of the following movements: structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic literary theory, semiotics, feminist literary theory, theories of popular culture, new historicism, post-colonialism.
Exclusion: (ENGC59Y or ENGD01Y)
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & two further full-course equivalents in English]
Session: Winter Evening
T.B.A.
Offered: 1998/99
ENGD47F Naipaul and Achebe
Telephone ID #: 05544733
A study of some of the major novels and short works by V.S. Naipaul and C. Achebe, reflecting their development as artists with social concerns. Readings will include selections from their non-fiction.
Limited enrolment: 24
Prerequisites: ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & and two further full-course equivalents in English.
Session: Winter Day
T.B.A.
ENGD51S Alice Munro
Telephone ID #: 05545153
A study of five collections of Alice Munro's short fiction: Dance of the Happy Shades; Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You; Who Do You Think You Are?; and Open Secrets; The Progress of Love. The course will demand close analysis of assigned short stories, as well as bibliographical exercises and reports on critical articles and reviews.
Limited Enrolment: 24
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & three further full-course equivalents in English]
Session: Winter Evening
T.B.A.
ENGD64F: Native Writing in North America
Telephone ID #: 05546433
This course will attempt to outline the range of Native writing throughout North America. The emphasis of the readings will be on the post-60's renaissance of native literature and culture. Readings will be drawn from a variety of genres, including: fiction, poetry, drama and autobiography.
Students in the course will be encouraged to engage with current issues in multi-culturalism: what are the poetics and politics of ethnography? How does any group come to terms with its ethnocentric assumptions? What does it mean to either understand or appropriate another culture? how does literature contribute to a resurgent nationalism? How do we pose questions of literary value and form canons of literature? Theorists such as Roy Harvey Pearce, Arnold Krupat, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, James Clifford, Clifford Geertz, and Linda Hutcheon will be used to clarify these questions. Native authors to be studied include: Black Elk, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Tomson Highway, Leslie Marmon Silko, Daniel David Moses, E. Pauline Johnson, James Welch, Thomas King, Paula Gunn Allen, Simon J. Ortiz, Linda Hogan, Beatrice Culleton, Gerald Vizenor, and others. All the literature we read will be in English, but students should be aware that more than 150 Native American languages can be found in North America.
Limited enrolment: 24
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & three further full-course equivalents in English] or permission of the instructor.
Session: Summer Evening
T.B.A.
ENGD70S Renaissance Love Poetry
Telephone ID #: 05547053
A consideration of the love poetry of Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Donne.
The fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries were the great age of erotic poetry in English. We shall be reading a variety of love poems in their social and historical contexts, as we consider the psychology of "being in love," its quasi-religious status, and the ways in which what are perceived as "natural" feelings are culturally constructed and shaped into artistic form.
Limited enrolment: 24
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & three further full-course equivalents in English] or [ENGC32]
Session: Winter Day
E.P. Vicari
ENGD75F The Twentieth-Century Short Story Sequence
Telephone ID #: 05547533
A study of unified collections of short stories.
The subject of this course is an unusual but significant modern genre -- the group of closely linked short stories that together make a unified work. Some questions to be considered are: What kinds of interrelationships serve to connect the stories? Can these works be considered episodic novels? What are some of the factors that account for the increasing popularity of this form, particularly in Canada? Six to eight works will be chosen for intensive study, including: Anderson Winesburg, Ohio; Joyce, Dubliners; Faulkner, Go Down, Moses. At least one Canadian work will be added.
Limited Enrolment: 24
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & two further full-course equivalents in English]
Session: Winter Day
M. Cuddy-Keane
ENGD80S Literature of the American South
Telephone ID #: 05548053
The South has traditionally been conceived of as a separate and distinctive culture in the U.S. This course will explore the bases and validity of the Southern myth from a broad historical, sociological and geographical perspective while focusing on the poetry, prose and drama of writers in the Southern States. Among the authors and topics to be considered in the present year are: The nineteenth-century folklorists and "Reconstruction" novelists; Ellen Glasgow; The "Agrarians"; the "Fugitive" group; Flannery O'Connor; Eudora Welty; Thomas Wolfe; William Styron; William Faulkner; Tennessee Williams; Walker Percy. A complete reading list will be available in May in the Humanities office.
Limited enrolment: 24
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & two further full-course equivalents in English] or [ENGB08Y]
Session: Winter Day
J. Kay
ENGD81F The Arthurian Legend in English Literature
Telephone ID #: 05548133
The theme of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table traced through several centuries in works of various genres.
The legendary stuff of Arthur still has power to captivate writers and readers, and is the subject of books, poems, films, and plays in our own time. This course begins by looking at present-day recreations in such works as Camelot and T.H. White's The Once and Future King. From there it turns back to earlier handlings of the myths, beginning with medieval Celtic, English, and French treatments of "the Matter of Britain," and moving down to the Renaissance and Modern period. It attempts to relate these to historical facts and cultural ideals. The relevance and meaning of these legends for people of different periods will be a subject of inquiry.
Prerequisite: ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & three other full-course equivalents in English.
Session: Winter Day
E.P. Vicari
ENGD98Y Senior Essay
Telephone ID #: 05549863
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
Session: Winter Day
ENGB07Y Canadian Literature in English: An Introduction
ENGB08Y American Literature: An Introduction
Exclusion: ENG250
ENGB11Y The World of Play
ENGB14Y Varieties of Fiction
ENGB24Y Canadian Fiction
ENGB25F/S The Canadian Short Story
ENGB26F/S Canadian Drama
Exclusion: ENG223
ENGB50Y Women and Literary Study
ENGC30Y Chaucer
Exclusion: ENG300Y
Prerequisite: ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y
ENGC33Y English Drama to 1642
Exclusion: ENG332
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB11Y]
ENGC41Y Contemporary Fiction
Exclusion: ENGC53F/S & ENGC54F/S; ENG329H & ENG361H
Prerequisite: ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB14Y] or [ENGB24Y]
ENGC42Y The Romantics
Prerequisite: ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y
ENGC61Y The West in American Literature
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGA11Y & ENGB05Y] or [ENGA11Y & ENGB08Y]
ENGC64F
ENGC65S
ENGC66Y Independent Studies: Creative Writing
Exclusions:
for ENGC64: (LITD64)
for ENGC65: (LITD65)
for ENGC66: (LITD66)
Prerequisite: ENGB60 (LITB60) and permission of the instructor.
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