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VIC Victoria College Courses VIC110Y1 The European literary tradition from the Bible and classical
antiquity through the Middle Ages. Readings in English translation from the classical
epic, Greek tragedy and philosophy, the Biblical tradition and Dante's Divine Comedy. By
introducing students to practical criticism and to the interpretation of texts and their
intertexts, the course seeks to develop a theoretical and comparative language for
literary analysis. VIC210Y1 The rise of modern European literatures in various contexts -
colonialism, humanism, literacy, nation-states, democratic movements, ideologies,
individualism - which prompted development of new literary genres and sub-genres, figures,
personae and filiations. Texts: Petrarch, (selected poems); Montaigne, Essays,
(selection); Shakespeare, The Tempest; Cervantes, Don Quixote; Milton, Paradise Lost;
Juana Ines de la Cruz, (selected poems and prose); Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Wheatley,
(selected poems); Rousseau, Emile; Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman;
Goethe, Elective Affinities; Claire de Duras, Ourika, (MLA Texts and Translations);
Bremer, The Colonel's Daughter; Tolstoy, The Cossacks; Haggard, She; Pauline Johnson,
(selected short stories) VIC211Y1 Issues of adaptation from various literary genres; novel,
short story, novella, poetry, drama, folk tale, comics, and discourse prose. VIC300H1/Y1 Interdisciplinary approach to a specific historical period or
movement (such as Romanticism, Late-Antiquity, Post-modernism, etc.) within the
development of European arts and letters: emphasis on the literature, fine arts, music and
philosophy of the period. VIC310Y1 The avant-garde and its querying of language, representation,
and interpretation. In the first term, intensive study of Joyce's Ulysses. In the second
term, works by writers such as Robbe-Grillet, Borges, Brecht, Beckett, Levi, Wolf,
Shalamov, Spiegelman, Marquez. VIC410Y1 For students enrolled in the Literary Studies program,
although other students are welcome. Intensive study of general issues of poetics and
critical theory, including representative literary and philosophical texts from the
European tradition. VIC411H1 Study of current filmic and literary theories, with emphasis
on the rhetoric of film: the concept of the trope, metaphor, metonymy, allegory, irony,
repetition, and specific thematic tropes like the eye, the face, the death mask, the
mirror, the dream, etc. VIC240Y1 An interdisciplinary introduction to the civilization of the
Renaissance illustrated by a study of the institutions, thought, politics, society and
culture of both Italy and Northern Europe. Italian city states such as Florence, Urbino
and Venice, Papal Rome and despotic Milan are compared with the northern dynastic
monarchies of France and England. VIC341H1 A study of the changing conception of the human self in the
Renaissance, and of its representation by major authors: Erasmus, Rabelais, Marguerite de
Navarre, Castiglione, Machiavelli and others. VIC342H1 Examination of central issues in Renaissance thought on the
conduct and justification of war, and discussion of representations of war and the life of
soldiers in historical writing, literature, and the visual arts. Core readings from
Erasmus, Machiavelli, Vitoria, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. VIC343Y1 (formerly VIC343H) 52S VIC344H1 (formerly VIC242H) 26S VIC345H1 Media and Communications in the Early Modern Era 26S VIC440Y1 An interdisciplinary seminar on Florence in the 15th and 16th
centuries: humanism, culture and society in the republican period, the rise of the Medici,
Florentine neoplatonism, the establishment of the Medici principate, culture, society and
religion. VIC120Y1 Systems and processes of verbal and non-verbal communication.
Processes of constituting texts out of sign systems in a variety of contemporary modes and
genres: language, literature, cinema, advertising, the media, art, gestures. VIC220Y1 Studies the international culture emerging in media and
literature and examines recent communication theory as it applies to literary, social and
cultural issues. VIC221Y1 Using semiotic analysis to understand impact of postmodernism
on professional fields, including education, medicine, law, and the church. VIC320Y1 Theories and models of applied semiotics: analysis of sign
systems as articulated in various forms of artistic and cultural production. VIC321Y1 Studies of social space, art works, and their interaction
with social subjects. Semiotic investigations into the visual cultures of story space in
mythic narrative, ritual and liturgical enactment, and modern texts; studies of
architecture, iconography perspective, cinema, digitialised media, post-colonial art. VIC420Y1 The major theories of semiosis and signification. Definition
of the sign from the ancient world to the 20th Century (Saussure, Peirce, Morris, Greimas,
Eco, Hjelmslev, Jakobson). Historical genealogy of analytical models and methodological
practices that characterize contemporary semiotics. Main theories on the origins of sign
and communication systems in humans. VIC299Y1
VIC350Y1 Practice and instruction in writing poetry and fiction,
paired with study of literature and theory introducing the multicultural richness of
contemporary English writing. Approximately three-quarters of class periods are workshops,
one-quarter lecture discussions. Work by many writers from contemporary and traditional
literatures are read in English translation. VIC390Y1/391H1 TBA VIC490Y1/491H1 TBA |
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