ENG100H
Effective Writing 39L

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.

ENG110Y1
Narrative 78L

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
Genre and Meaning 78L

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
Literature for our Time 78L

An exploration of how twentieth-century literature responds to our world through major forms of poetry and prose, in texts drawn from a variety of national literatures. At least nine authors, such as: Faulkner, Gordimer, Joyce, Morrison, Munro, Naipaul, Rushdie, White, Woolf; Beckett, Highway, O'Neill, Shaw, Soyinka, Stoppard; Eliot, Frost, Heaney, Page, Plath, Rich, Wayman, Walcott, Yeats.

ENG200Y1
The Bible and English Literature 78L

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
Reading Poetry 78L

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.
Exclusion: ENG227Y
Corequisite: For students with fewer than four full courses, one of ENG110Y/120Y/130Y/140Y/JEF100Y

ENG202Y1
Major British Writers 78L

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.
Corequisite: For students with fewer than four full courses, one of ENG110Y/120Y/140Y/JEF100Y

ENG213H1
The Short Story 39L

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
The Short-Story Collection 39L

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
The Canadian Short Story 39L

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
Twentieth-Century Canadian Fiction 78L

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
Shakespeare 78L

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 Drama 39L

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
Literature and Society 78L

The relation between literary technique and social purpose in texts selected from different historical periods. Works of different genres are included.

ENG232H1
Twentieth-Century Biography (formerly ENG323Y) 36L

An introduction to the varieties of biography in this century. Issues such as the nature of biographical sources, the aims of the biographer, the difference between biography and autobiography, and the bias of the biographer are discussed. Figures such as Wilde, Russell, Woolf, Plath, Lennon, Layton, MacEwen may be included.

ENG233Y1
Major Women Writers 78L

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
Children's Literature 39L

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
Detective Fiction 39L

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
Science Fiction and Fantasy 39L

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.

ENG240Y1
Old English Language and Literature 78L

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
American Literature 78L

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
Canadian Literature 78L

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
World Literatures in English 78L

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 Native North American Literature 78L

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 Allen, Jeannette Armstrong, Beth Brant, Maria Campbell, Louise Edrich, Joy Harjo, Tomson Highway, Basil Johnston, Emma LaRoque, Lee Maracle, N. Scott Momaday, Daniel Moses, Leslie Silko.

ENG258Y1
Literature and Science 78L

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
Literature and the Environment 78L

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
Literature and Criticism: An Introduction 39L

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
Writing: Purposes, Strategies, Processes 78L

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.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

ENG272Y1
Origins of Orientalism 78L

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.

ENG273H1
Science Fiction and Fantasy: Film 26L, 39P/T

Ten to twelve American films, from the 1950s to the present, by such directors as Haskin, Seigal, Kubrick, Spielberg, Reiner, Ridley Scott, Lucas, Fincher, Verhoeven.

ENG274H1
Essays for Fun and Profit 39L

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
Modernism and Postmodernism 78L

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.

ENG290Y1
Literature and Psychoanalysis 78L

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
Research Opportunity Program

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 42 for details.

ENG300Y1
Chaucer 78L

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 and Prose, 1500-1600 78L

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
Poetry and Prose, 1600-1660 78L

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
Poetry and Prose, 1660-1800 78L

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
Romantic Poetry and Prose 78L

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
Victorian Prose of Thought 78L

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 si cle, and "Decadence."

ENG322Y1
Fiction before 1832 78L

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
Fiction, 1832-1900 78L

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 Bront‰s, the crisis of religious faith in George Eliot, and the powerful moral fables of Hardy. Students will read 10-12 novels.

ENG328Y1
Fiction, 1900-1960 78L

At least twelve works, including one or more by each of James, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, and Faulkner.

ENG329H1
British Fiction Since 1960 39L

At least six works by at least four contemporary British novelists, such as Beckett, Burgess, Fowles, Golding, Lessing, Spark, Thomas.

ENG330H1
Drama Before 1558 39L

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
Drama to 1642 78L

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
Drama, 1660-1800 39L

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
Modern Drama 78L

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
Drama in English Since 1960 39L

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
Poetry, 1900-1960 78L

Special study of Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Stevens; selections from other poets.

ENG349H1
Poetry in English Since 1960 39L

Works by at least six contemporary poets, such as Dickey, Ginsberg, Heaney, Howard, Hughes, Larkin, Lowell, Plath, Warren.

ENG350H1
Early Canadian Literature 39L

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
Modern Canadian Poetry 78L

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 in Canadian Literature 39L

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
American Literature Before 1880 78L

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
American Literature, 1880-1960 78L

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
American Fiction Since 1960 39L

At least six works by at least four contemporary American novelists, such as Bellow, Doctorow, Hawkes, Mailer, Nabokov, Percy, Pynchon, Updike, Vonnegut.

ENG366Y1
Contemporary Theory and Criticism 78L

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
History of the English Language 78L

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
Creative Writing 52S

Restricted to students who in the opinion of the Department show special aptitude. A section of this course devoted to a workshop in playwriting and the analysis of plays is normally available.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

ENG390Y1
Individual Studies TBA

A scholarly project chosen by the student and supervised by a member of the staff. The form of the project and the manner of its execution are determined in consultation with the supervisor. All project proposals should be submitted by June 1. Proposal forms are available from the Department offices.
Exclusion: ENG490Y
Prerequisite: Three courses in English

ENG391Y1
Individual Studies (Creative) TBA

A project in creative writing chosen by the student and supervised by a member of the staff. The form of the project and the manner of its execution are determined in consultation with the supervisor. All project proposals should be submitted by June 1. Proposal forms are available from the Department offices.
Prerequisite: Three courses in English, including ENG369Y

ENG400Y1
Beowulf and Other Old English Poetry 52S

Klaeber, ed., Beowulf. Other texts to be selected. (Offered in alternate years with ENG401Y)
Prerequisite: Three courses in English, including ENG240Y

ENG401Y1
Studies in Medieval Literature 52S

(Offered in alternate years with ENG400Y)
Prerequisite: Three courses in English, including ENG240Y or 300Y

ENG405H1/406H1/407H1/408H1
Studies in an Individual Writer, pre-1800 26S

ENG420H1/421H1/422H1/423H1
Studies in an Individual Writer, post-1800 26S

ENG430H1/431H1/432H1/433H1
Studies in an Individual Canadian Writer 26S

ENG440Y1
Studies in Renaissance Literature 52S

ENG441Y1
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature 52S

ENG443Y1
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature 52S

ENG444Y1
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 52S

ENG455H1
Studies in Renaissance Literature 26S

ENG456H1
Studies in Seventeenth-Century Literature 26S

ENG457H1
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature 26S

ENG458H1
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature 26S

ENG459H1
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 26S

ENG467Y1
History of Literary Criticism 52S

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
Critical Methods 26S

Study of one or more modes of criticism in relation to the interpretation of literary works.

ENG472Y1
Representing the Other in Post-Colonial Literature 52S

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
Contemporary West Indian Literature 52S

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
Continuities and Change in Epic Literature 52S

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.

ENG490Y1
Senior Essay TBA

A scholarly project devised by the student and supervised by a member of the staff. The course is open to students enrolled in the English Specialist Program or in Combined Specialist Programs where it is an option. Proposal forms are available from the Department offices. Proposals must be submitted by June 1.
Prerequisite: Fourteen full courses, with at least four full ENG courses; an overall B average in all ENG courses previously taken.
Exclusion: ENG390Y