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ENG English Courses ENG100H A course designed to improve competence in writing expository and persuasive prose for academic and other purposes. It aims to teach the principles of clear, well-reasoned prose, and their practical applications; the processes of composition (drafting, revising, final editing); the conventions of various prose forms and different university disciplines. The course does not meet the needs of students primarily seeking to develop English language proficiency. ENG185Y1 Only for students registered in the Academic Bridging
Program. HUM199Y1 Undergraduate seminar that focuses on specific ideas,
questions, phenomena or controversies, taught by a regular Faculty member deeply engaged
in the discipline. Open only to newly admitted first-year students. It may serve as a
breadth requirement course; see page 44. 100-SERIES COURSES JEF100Y1 (formerly WLD 100Y) 78L ENG110Y1 This course explores the stories that are all around us and
that shape our world: traditional literary narratives such as ballads, romances, and
novels, and also the kinds of stories we encounter in non-literary contexts such as
journalism, movies, myths, jokes, legal judgements, travel writing, histories, songs,
diaries, biographies. ENG120Y1 An exploration of how major literary forms in poetry and
prose shape both what the writer can perceive and express and how the reader receives and
interprets the text. We shall consider a variety of literary genres from 1350-1940, such
as comedy, elegy, satire, epic, ode, autobiography, detective story. ENG140Y1 An exploration of how twentieth-century literature responds
to our world through major forms of poetry, prose, and drama in texts drawn from a variety
of national literatures. At least nine authors, such as: Eliot, Frost, Heaney, Page,
Plath, Rich, Wayman, Walcott, Yeats, Faulkner, Gordimer, Joyce, Morrison, Munro, Naipaul,
Rushdie, White, Woolf; Beckett, Highway, O'Neill, Shaw, Soyinka, Stoppard. ENG200Y1 An introductory study of the Bible's influence on literature
in English. Selections from the Bible, Milton, Blake, Eliot. Other works to be chosen by
the instructor. ENG201Y1 An introduction to poetry through a close reading of texts,
focusing on its traditional forms, themes, techniques, and uses of language; its
historical and geographical range; and its twentieth-century diversity. ENG202Y1 Lectures and tutorials on the essential and influential texts
that have helped ground our English literary heritage. Poetry, drama and fiction by at
least fourteen authors such as Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Bunyan,
Dryden, Congreve, Pope, Swift, Fielding, Austen, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats,
Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, George Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, T.S. Eliot. ENG213H1 A introduction to fiction through short stories of various
kinds, written mainly in the 19th and 20th centuries. Authors such as Hawthorne, Poe,
James, Conrad, Kipling, Joyce, Lawrence, Mansfield, Faulkner, Hemingway, Singer, Gallant. ENG214H1 A study of interrelated short-story collections written and
put together by such authors as Kipling, Joyce, Lawrence, Hemingway, Mansfield, Salinger,
Roth, Laurence, Faulkner, O'Connor, Gallant. ENG215H1 A study of Canadian short fiction in English since its
beginnings. A wide variety of regions, periods, styles, and writers is considered. Works
by authors such as Callaghan, Ross, Laurence, Gallant, Munro, Buckler, Hood, Hodgins, and
Atwood are included. ENG216Y1 The vitality of modern and contemporary Canadian fiction is
acclaimed both nationally and internationally. This course examines the work of writers
who have achieved world-wide recognition as well as others who have added significantly to
our knowledge of ourselves and our country. Twelve or more works studied. ENG220Y1 About twelve plays by Shakespeare representing the different
periods of his career and the different genres he worked in (comedy, history, tragedy).
Such plays as: Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Richard II; Henry IV, Parts I
and II; As You Like It, Twelfth Night; Measure for Measure; Hamlet; King Lear; Antony and
Cleopatra; The Tempest. Non-dramatic poetry may be included. ENG223H1 Canadian plays, with emphasis on major playwrights and on
developments since 1940, but with attention also to the history of the theatre in Canada. ENG231Y1 The relation between literary technique and social purpose in
texts selected from different historical periods. Works of different genres are included. ENG232H1 (formerly ENG323Y) 36L ENG233Y1 A study of at least eight and not more than twelve major
women writers. The course includes works of poetry and fiction; drama and non-fiction may
also be represented. ENG234H1 An historical and critical study of poetry, fiction, and
drama written for or appropriated by children. Works by at least twelve authors such as
Bunyan, Defoe, Stevenson, Carroll, Twain, Milne, Tolkien, Norton, and Andersen. ENG236H1 At least twelve works by such authors as Poe, Dickens,
Collins, Doyle, Chesterton, Christie, Sayers, Van Dine, Hammett, Chandler, Faulkner, P.D.
James, Rendell. ENG237H1 The literature of possible worlds and thought experiments.
Science fiction invents or extrapolates an inner or outer cosmology from the physical,
life, social, and human sciences, and fantasy animates a supernatural universe. Typical
subjects include AI, alternate histories, holocaust, space-time travel, strange species,
theories of everything, utopias or dystopias. ENG238H1 Ten to twelve American films, from the 1950s to the present,
by such directors as Haskin, Siegel, Kubrick, Spielberg, Reiner, Ridley Scott, Lucas,
Fincher, Verhoeven. ENG240Y1 Prepares students to read the oldest English literary forms
in the original language. Introduces the earliest English poetry in a woman's voice,
expressions of desire, religious fervour, and the agonies of war. Texts, written 680 -
1100, range from the epic of Beowulf the dragon-slayer to ribald riddles. ENG250Y1 Introductory survey of major works in American literature.
Works by about twelve authors writing in a variety of genres, including not only poetry
and fiction, but also essays and slave narratives. Representative authors include
Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Douglass, Twain, Whitman,
Dickinson, James, Wharton, Faulkner, Cather, Hurston, Eliot, Frost, Brooks, Stevens. ENG252Y1 An introductory survey of Canadian poetry, prose and drama,
consisting of the work of at least twelve writers, at least one of them of Native Canadian
origin. At least one third of the works date from before 1950, but attention is also given
to very recent works. The course includes works by at least eight of the following:
Moodie, Lampman, Leacock, Pratt, Klein, Ross, Birney, Davies, Laurence, Reaney, Munro,
Atwood. ENG253Y1 A study of approximately twelve writers from diverse
English-speaking cultures, for example, those of Africa, Australia, India, New Zealand,
and the West Indies. Authors include at least six of the following: Achebe, Coetzee,
Gordimer, Ngugi, p'bitek, Soyinka; Keneally, Stead, Stow, White; Narayan, Rao, Rushdie;
Frame; Bennett, Brathwaite, Harris, Naipaul, Walcott. ENG254Y1 Contemporary North American aboriginal writing in English.
The writings are placed within the context of aboriginal cultures and living oral
traditions. Attention is given to linguistic and territorial diversity. Writers may
include: Paula Gunn Allen, Jeannette Armstrong, Beth Brant, Maria Campbell, Louise
Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Tomson Highway, Basil Johnston, Emma LaRoque, Lee Maracle, N. Scott
Momaday, Daniel David Moses, Leslie Marmon Silko. ENG256Y1 A survey of major texts, focusing on the relationship between
genre and ethnic and national identity. Included are works of prose, poetry, drama, film,
music, and other forms of popular culture by writers and artists who identified
themselves, or were identified, as Jewish. ENG257Y1 At least eight literary works and a film adaptation of each
focusing on a particular genre, topic, or period. ENG258Y1 Study of the relations between literary and scientific
representations of the world in imaginative literature as well as in texts by scientists
from disciplines such as anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, cosmology, geology,
linguistics, physics, and psychology. Typical topics include evolution, relativity,
quantum mechanics, genetics, chaos theory, and the brain. ENG259Y1 A study of the way writers have helped to define what
constitutes "nature" and our relationship to it, in such forms as Renaissance
pastoral, the Romantic lyric, and modern fiction and poetry. Examines the role of
literature in creating our awareness of the "environment." At least twelve works
by writers such as Shakespeare, Marvell, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman,
Dickens, Hardy, Pratt, Lawrence, Frost, Jeffers, Engel, Atwood. ENG267H1 An introduction to some central issues and concepts of
literary criticism, such as the notion of literature, the relation of literature to
criticism, critical analysis and evaluation, and the making of literary canons. ENG269Y1 The skills involved in critical thinking are also used in the
process of expressing thoughts precisely, suggestively, and persuasively in writing. This
course in expository writing is an intermediate-level seminar in which students who
already write effectively can improve their understanding and practice of rhetorical
strategy and prose style through workshops in a variety of forms and subjects. ENG272Y1 A survey of English literature centered on
"orientalism," the representation of the East as an exotic, other-worldly place
characterized by luxury, sensuality, wealth, and depravity. Though orientalism is often
thought to be a modern phenomenon, startling misrepresentations of the East are prominent
in Medieval and Renaissance literature. We focus on these texts to unearth the roots of
orientalism, and follow the theme into the twentieth century. ENG274H1 A general survey of the essay in English old and new,
personal and political, mainstream and marginal. Exposure to varied styles and approaches
and modes of persuasion will improve readers' understanding of the essay form and their
own performance in it; this is not, however, primarily a writing course like ENG 269Y. ENG275Y1 Examination of a selection of twentieth-century literary
works in the context of the two cultural movements known as Modernism and Postmodernism.
Visual art, architecture, social planning, and film are also considered. ENG277Y1 A study of Black Canadian Literature (poetry, drama, fiction,
non-fiction) from its origin in the African Slave Trade in the eighteenth century to its
current flowering as the expression of immigrants, exiles, refugees, and "indigenous
Africans" (whose roots are essentially "Canadian"). Pertinent theoretical
works, films and recorded music are also considered. ENG279Y1 An introduction to major Chinese Canadian and Chinese
American writers in English through a survey of their writings in a variety of literary
forms (e.g., novel, poem, drama, essay, autobiography), this course explores
representations of radical and ethnic identity in relation to issues of gender, class, and
nation. ENG290Y1 Introduction to the study of literature by reference to
psychoanalysis. Literary texts are examined in the context of major ideas of
psychoanalysis, e.g., the Oedipus complex, dream interpretation, the desire of the Other,
stages of development, and by reference to the common concern of literature and
psychoanalysis with language. Texts include psychoanalytic and literary works by such
authors as Freud, Jung, Lacan, Shakespeare, Dickens and D.H. Lawrence. ENG299Y1
ENG300Y1 The foundation of English literature: in their uncensored
richness and range, Chaucer's works have delighted wide audiences for over 600 years.
Includes The Canterbury Tales, with its variety of narrative genres from the humorous and
bawdy to the religious and philosophical, and Troilus and Criseyde, a profound erotic
masterpiece. ENG302Y1 Poetry: Wyatt and Surrey, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare,
Spenser (The Faerie Queene, at least two Books; and the Mutabilitie Cantos), and Donne.
Other poets may be added. Prose: More, Utopia; and Sidney, Defence of Poetry. Selections
from at least two of: Elyot; Ascham; Hakluyt; Hooker; Lyly; Sidney, Arcadia; Nashe; and
Deloney. Supplementary readings from such authors as Erasmus, Castiglione, Machiavelli,
and Ariosto may be prescribed. ENG304Y1 Literature in an age of Civil War, intellectual revolution,
and religious upheaval, from Donne and Jonson to Milton and Marvell. Such prose writers as
Bacon, Burton, Browne and Traherne are also studied. ENG306Y1 Writers of this period grapple with questions of authority
and individualism, tradition and innovation, in politics, religion, knowledge, society,
and literature itself. Special attention to Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and at least six
other authors. ENG308Y1 Poetry and critical prose of Blake, W. Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Byron, P.B. Shelley, Keats; may include selections from other writers such as Crabbe,
Scott, Landor, Clare, D. Wordsworth, M. Shelley, De Quincey. ENG312Y1 Writers (such as Darwin, Tennyson, Browning, Wilde,
Nightingale, Christina Rossetti, Kipling) respond to crisis and transition: the Industrial
Revolution, the Idea of Progress, and the "Woman Question"; conflicting claims
of liberty and equality, empire and nation, theology and natural selection; the Romantic
inheritance, Art-for-Art's-Sake, Fin de siecle, and "Decadence." ENG322Y1 A study of major and minor works of fiction, illustrating the
emergence of prose fiction as a genre recognized in both a literary and a commercial
sense. Authors studied include: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Scott, and Austen. ENG324Y1 Exploring the social and political dilemmas of a culture in
transition, this course studies such topics as the comic art of Dickens, Trollope, and
Thackeray, the Gothicism of the Brontes, the crisis of religious faith in George Eliot,
and the powerful moral fables of Hardy. Students will read 10-12 novels. ENG328Y1 At least twelve works, including one or more by each of
James, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, and Faulkner. ENG329H1 At least six works by at least four contemporary British
novelists, such as Beckett, Burgess, Fowles, Golding, Lessing, Spark, Thomas. ENG330H1 A study of medieval English drama. Works include the Corpus
Christi Cycle; Mary Magdalene; Castle of Perseverance, Mankind, Everyman; plays by Henry
Medwall and John Redford; at least two other plays. ENG332Y1 English drama from its beginnings to the closing of the
public theatres during the English Civil War: medieval plays; Tudor interlude;
Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline history, tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and romance;
special attention to Shakespeare (reflecting the range of his career) and his
contemporaries, particularly Marlowe and Jonson. ENG334H1 At least twelve plays, including works by Dryden, Wycherley,
Congreve, and their successors, chosen to demonstrate the modes of drama practised during
the period, the relationship between these modes and that between the plays and the
theatres for which they were designed. (Offered in alternate years) ENG338Y1 A minimum of twenty representative modern plays, one or more
by at least five of Beckett, Churchill, O'Casey, O'Neill, Pinter, Shaw, Stoppard, Synge,
Williams, Yeats; background readings from other dramatic literatures. ENG339H1 At least ten plays by at least six contemporary dramatists,
such as Pinter, Albee, Stoppard, Orton, Bond, Storey, Mercer, Griffiths, Shaffer, Shepard,
Sackler, Terry. ENG348Y1 Special study of Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Stevens;
selections from other poets. ENG349H1 Works by at least six contemporary poets, such as Dickey,
Ginsberg, Heaney, Howard, Hughes, Larkin, Lowell, Plath, Warren. ENG350H1 Writing in English Canada before 1914, from a variety of
genres such as: the novel, poetry, short stories, exploration and settler accounts, nature
writing, criticism, First Nations cultural production. (Offered in alternate years) ENG354Y1 Fifteen or more poets from the 20th century, at least six to
be chosen from Pratt, F.R. Scott, A.J.M. Smith, Birney, Layton, Livesay, Klein, Avison,
Purdy, Souster, Reaney, Page, Atwood, Webb. (Offered in alternate years) ENG356H1 Topics and issues in Canadian writing from its beginnings,
covering a variety of genres. Topics vary from year to year; details are listed in the
departmental brochure. Topics may include: ethnic identity, periodical writing, forms of
narrative, the individual and the community, realism and symbolism, nationalism and
culture. ENG358Y1 A study of American writing before 1880, including works by
at least five authors from the following list: Emerson, Cooper, Poe, Stowe, Melville,
Hawthorne, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, James. ENG359Y1 A study of American writing between 1890 and 1960, including
works by at least five authors from the following list: James, Twain, Wharton, Dreiser,
Dos Passos, Cather, Williams, Stein, Hemingway, Faulkner, Frost, Welty, Stevens, A.
Miller. ENG361H1 At least six works by at least four contemporary American
novelists, such as Bellow, Doctorow, Hawkes, Mailer, Nabokov, Percy, Pynchon, Updike,
Vonnegut. ENG366Y1 Major issues and movements in the theory of literature and
literary criticism, with emphasis on the 20th century. Among the movements studied are
varieties of formal, psychological, and moral criticism and theory, feminist criticism,
structuralism and post-structuralism. Authors studied may include such figures as
Richards, Leavis, Brooks, Frye, Trilling, Barthes, Bloom, Eagleton, Barbara Johnson. ENG367Y1 English from King Alfred's ninth-century Germanic to
many-voiced present-day English, dominating popular culture, science, diplomacy, and
business throughout the world. Specific texts show how sociopolitical history changes and
varies this language. Topics include semantics, standardization, syntax, and vocabulary. ENG369Y1 Restricted to students who in the opinion of the Department
show special aptitude for writing poetry, fiction, or drama. (For application procedure,
see Department Brochure) ENG390Y1 TBA ENG391Y1 TBA ENG398H0/399Y0
ENG400Y1 Klaeber, ed., Beowulf. Other texts to be selected. (Offered
in alternate years with ENG401Y) ENG401Y1 (Offered in alternate years with ENG400Y) ENG405H1/406H1/407H1/408H1 ENG420H1/421H1/422H1/423H1 ENG430H1/431H1/432H1/433H1 ENG440Y1 ENG441Y1 ENG443Y1 ENG444Y1 ENG455H1 ENG456H1 ENG457H1 ENG458H1 ENG459H1 ENG467Y1 Introduction to the work of the major figures in literary
criticism from Plato to the mid-20th century. Topics include the evaluation and
interpretation of literature, theories of the imagination, conceptions of genre and style,
the social and historical context of literature. Among the authors will be five of the
following: Plato, Aristotle, Sidney, Johnson, Coleridge, Arnold, Eliot, Woolf. ENG468H1 Study of one or more modes of criticism in relation to the
interpretation of literary works. ENG472Y1 A study of post-colonial writers who give expression to the
voice of the "other": the silenced, the subaltern and the marginalized. The
course considers such writers as Keri Hulme, Mudrooroo Narogin, Jack Davis, Suniti
Namjoshi, Thomas King, Bessie Head, Salman Rushdie, Rajiva Wijesinha, Lewis Nkosi, Allan
Sealy, Satendra Nandan and Rohinton Mistry. ENG473Y1 A study of contemporary West Indian literature, including
work by Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Wilson Harris, Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming,
Samuel Selvon, Austin Clarke, Lorna Goodison, Erna Brodber, David Dabydeen, Olive Senior,
Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand. The course focuses on relationships between African, Asian,
and European inheritances, and between oral and written traditions. ENG474Y1 A study of the ways in which the epic tradition alters to
respond to changing intellectual and social currents through the ages while still
retaining characteristics that allow us to identify it as epic. Authors include Spenser,
Milton, Wordsworth, and Joyce, with background readings from other literatures. ENG480Y1 An undergraduate/graduate seminar devoted to a close reading
of Beowulf. ENG490Y1 TBA |
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