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Description:听This is a survey of British and Anglophone literature from the 18^th听century to the present, with an emphasis on prose. As this period covers a rich range of texts and authors from various backgrounds, we will focus on writers who, until a few decades ago, were seldom considered to be part of the canon: women, writers of color, outsiders (Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, Derek Walcott, Angela Carter). In the case of the well-established writers (William Blake, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot) we will focus on texts that showcase the plight of the working classes, distant imaginary or real landscapes, gender and sexuality, and less explored themes. We will study the characteristics of various literary genres, identify the historical and cultural concerns specific to each period, and read the themes and formal elements of poetry, prose and essays against the social and political background of each era.

Texts:

• The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors (Volume 2); 9th edition
• Mary Shelley: 听Frankenstein
• Sam Selvon: 听The Lonely Londoners
• Course Pack

Evaluation:

• Short Paper 20%,
• Longer Paper 30%
• Final Exam 40%,
• Participation 10%

贵辞谤尘补迟:听Lectures and discussions

Prerequisite:听狈辞苍别
Not open to students who have taken ENGL 200.听 Open only to students in English Major and Minor programs.

听Description: 听English 202 is defined as a historical survey of nondramatic English literature from Old English up to and including the eighteenth-century writer Swift, highlighting major texts, authors, and shifts in literary thought, with attention to relevant cultural factors.

Covering around 1000 years of literary history in only 13 weeks, this necessarily fast-moving course provides fundamental grounding for understanding the cross-currents, influences, and intertextual relationships involved in the development of nondramatic English literature.听 Accordingly, English 202 focuses on premodern English nondramatic authors, texts, and genres that have had a major literary and cultural impact:听Beowulf, Chaucer鈥檚听Canterbury Tales, Spenser鈥檚听Faerie Queene, a range of Renaissance sonnets, lyrics by Donne and Marvell, Milton鈥檚听Paradise Lost, Pope鈥檚听Rape of the Lock, and Swift鈥檚听Gulliver鈥檚 Travels.听 The course thus provides knowledge of English epic, the formerly major narrative genre; its parodic inversion mock-epic; early modern lyric; satire; and other literary forms.听 It further deals with a wide range of cultural, social, and intellectual contexts relevant to these texts, from philosophy, theology, and icongraphy to former notions of amorous desire.听 By examining two representative expressions of Renaissance and Enlightenment esthetics, Sidney鈥檚听Defence of Poesy听and Pope鈥檚听Essay on Criticism, it defines prior concepts of literature, how they differed, and how they contrast with our own.听 Using Mary Wroth and Aphra Behn as exemplars, it further addresses the origins and development of English female literary authorship.听 This course combines with English 203 to survey English literary history up the present, and these surveys much facilitate later specialized study of English literature in the Minor, Major, and Honours programs.

The genres, authors, and longer texts covered in this course鈥搒uch as听Beowulf, the听Canterbury Tales听and its particular sections studied (the General Prologue, the Wife鈥檚 and Miller鈥檚 Prologues and Tales), a portion of听The Faerie Queene, Sidney鈥檚听Defence, Books I to IV of听Paradise Lost, Pope鈥檚听Essay on Criticism听and听Rape of the Lock, and parts I and IV of听Gulliver鈥檚 Travels--are thus quite standard for such surveys throughout the English-speaking world.

Texts:听The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, 7^th听or later editions (available at the Word bookstore, 469 Milton Street); Colin Norman,听Writing Essays听(pamphlet, available at the 平特五不中 bookstore); Course Reader (available at the Word bookstore)

Evaluation:听Final exam, 40%; term paper, 50%; 10% conference attendance and participation

贵辞谤尘补迟:听Lectures, conferences and discussions

Average enrolment: 190 students

Description:听ENGL 203 surveys English literature from the late 18th through the later 20th century, with emphasis on fiction and poetry in an historical context. We will pay particular attention to the developmental story that the assigned works tell, how they collectively comment upon the purposes of literature, and how they form a dynamic canon.听听 The course material and the three first novels broadly represent major periods in British literary history: the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern ages.听听听 Like the works that comprise these ages, the periods themselves are subject to controversy and disagreement, but 鈥減eriodization鈥� remains a useful method of organization, especially in a course that covers a great deal of material in a short time.听听 鈥淧eriodization鈥� is also an integral part of the history of British literature, and whatever its shortcomings, the concepts of Romanticism, Victorianism, and Modernism have been formative to the canon that we have inherited and continue to develop.听 By the end of the course, you should be familiar with the outlines of these successive periods, as well as able to comment on听 the ways that they speak across each other 鈥� and even call into question the ideological and formal divisions that define them as periods.听

Texts:

• The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Concise Edition, Vol. B
• Austen, Jane.听听Emma听(1815)
• Hardy, Thomas.听Jude the Obscure听听(1895)
• Woolf, Virginia.听To the Lighthouse听(1927)
• Ishiguro, Kazuo.听听The Remains of the Day听(1989)

Evaluation:听Attendance and participation (in conference section): 20%; midterm: 20%; essay: 25%; final exam: 35%

Format:听Lectures and听weekly conferences

Description:听Sometime around 1590, a glover鈥檚 son named William Shakespeare moved from Stratford-Upon-Avon to London to try his hand at a new sort of commercial venture called 鈥榩laying鈥�: a business that offered ordinary people a few hours of dramatic entertainment for the price of one penny. In addition to watching the professional players onstage, spectators also participated in a form of play themselves, in a sense, because theatrical experience provided a unique opportunity to engage imaginatively with otherwise inaccessible people, worlds, and ideas.

More than four hundred years later, the Shakespearean canon has become the most celebrated set of secular texts in all of world literature, and the name 鈥楽hakespeare鈥� has become a byword for literary genius. Our course will offer an introduction to this remarkable dramatist with the goal of understanding what鈥攁nd how鈥攈is works meant in their original context, thereby developing a historically informed perspective on their influence over our own cultural landscape. To bring the 鈥榩laying business鈥� into better view, we will attend very closely to the socio-economic situation of the theatre, the conditions of performance, the processes of dramatic production, and the print marketplace. This focus will situate Shakespeare within the political and intellectual climate of the early seventeenth century, an era notable for religious conflict, scientific discovery, the birth of journalism, the rise of capitalism, and increasing interaction with the New World. Of course, we will also consider the extraordinary literary qualities undergirding Shakespeare鈥檚 enduring appeal鈥攊ncluding his method of characterization, his poetic style, and the profoundly experimental, speculative quality that characterizes his art overall.

Our curriculum will comprise seven key texts:听A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream,听The Merchant of Venice, Sir Thomas More,听Richard II,听Hamlet,听Anthony and Cleopatra, and听The Tempest. Students will write a mid-term exam, a final exam, and a final essay (8-10 pp.). They will also have the option of doing a Directing Project, a Creative Writing Project, or a Performance Research Project. In addition to regular lectures and conferences, we will visit the Special Collections department of the McLennan Library to view rare early editions of Shakespeare鈥檚 works.听

Texts:听The Arden Shakespeare edition of听Sir Thomas More,听Oxford World's Classics editions of听A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Hamlet, Anthony and Cleopatra听and听The Tempest.

Evaluation:听Conference mark 15%, special project 15%, midterm exam 20%, final essay 25%, final exam 25 %

Format: Lectures and discussions

Prerequisites:听None.

Description:听This course surveys American literature from 1950 to the present, focusing on key works in several major literary movements. The course aims to chart the evolution of the American literary tradition through considerations of both intellectual and material history. To this end, we will examine prose fiction and poetry in relation to landmark cultural and sociopolitical developments in contemporary America, including, among others: the growth of suburbia; the Civil Rights movement; the energy crisis; the end of the Cold War; the environmental movement; and the war on terror. One of the objectives of this course is to examine how literary depictions of the self have shifted as various hegemonic narratives of prosperity, ideological triumph, and unlimited growth have peaked over the past six decades. In a related vein, we will examine how stylistic and formal strategies in both poetry and prose have altered in relation to new constructions of individuality and American identity.听

Texts:听(available at the 平特五不中 Bookstore)

• The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Literature since 1945.听Eighth Edition. Volume E. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011
• Stark, Richard.听The Hunter
• Walter, Jess.听The Financial Lives of the Poets

Evaluation:听

• Mid-Term Exam: 30%
• Final Exam: 35%
• Essay: 20%
• Conference Participation: 15%

Format:听Lectures and Conferences

Prerequisites:听None

Description:听An introduction to Canadian literature in English from its beginnings through the Second World War. Far from being an organic and coherent tradition, early Canadian literature comprises a succession of local responses to international events and movements. Written in an international language and obeying the dictates of a distant publishing industry centred in London and New York, early Canadian writing reflects a country changing with successive waves of imperialism and modernization. In this course, students will become familiar with the major genres that writers in this country adopted to give expression to their experience of Canada: exploration narrative, satire, sketch, nature lyric, short story, long poem, free verse, novel. We will strive to understand why early Canadian writers wrote as they did, how their writing was published and received, what political and aesthetic motives drove them, and what ideals structured their different visions of the nation.

Texts:

• Robert Lecker, ed.听Open Country: Canadian Literature to 1950听(Thomson Nelson)
• William E. Moreau, ed.听The Writings of David Thompson. Vol. 1,听The Travels, 1850 Version听(平特五不中-Queen鈥檚)
• Sara Jeannette Duncan,听The Imperialist, ed. Misao Dean (Broadview)
• Sinclair Ross,听As For Me and My House听(New Canadian Library)

Evaluation:听Midterm exam (30%); essay (40%); final exam (30%)

Format:听Lectures

Average Enrollment:听150 students

Prerequisites:听None

Description:听A survey of English Canadian poetry and prose from the Second World War to the present. We will read poetry and short fiction to explore the development of Canadian literature. In addition to looking at the work of specific authors from 1945 to the present, the lectures will cover such topics as Canadian literary nationalism, realism, postmodernism, and different forms of experimentation. We will also look at the idea of nordicity as a central metaphor in Canadian writing and discuss the economic and cultural forces accounting for the construction of a national literature.听

Texts:

• Lecker, Robert, ed.听Open Country: Canadian Literature in English. Toronto: Nelson, 2007

Evaluation:听TBA

Format:听Lectures

Average Enrollment:听150 students

Description:听This course provides a critical introduction to theatre studies, in its branches of dramatic literature, dramatic theory, and theatre history.听 Our point of departure for this introduction to the field will be plays drawn from the major episodes of world theatre history, beginning with Ancient Greek and Japanese Noh drama through contemporary Canadian and postcolonial performance, and including the Department of English mainstage show. Through the plays, we will examine what 鈥渢heatre鈥� is in different periods and places, how it is constituted by the material conditions of performance, codified in dramatic genres, and conceptualized in dramatic theory.听 NB: This course is introductory in the sense of 鈥榝oundational鈥�; it offers the fundaments to the study of theatre, encasing them in a broad historical narrative about the theatre鈥檚 development over time.

鈥淚ntroduction to Theatre Studies鈥� is divided into units and ordered according to chronology. Each unit is built around a representative play or performance and explores a particular question or issue in theatre studies, for instance, the actor鈥檚 body, theories of genre, or women on stage.

Texts:听Available at the 平特五不中 Bookstore and on Reserve

• Worthen, W.B., ed.听The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama,听Brief听6^th听Edition

Required Event:听Department of English mainstage play 鈥� Moyse Hall Theatre, end of November

Evaluation:听Theatre production analysis (20%), midterm take-home exam (30%), final Exam (40%), seminar participation (10%)

Format:听Lecture and conference section discussion

Prerequisites:听Open to Drama and Theatre Majors

Description:听The focus of this course is on the actor as communicator, and on those things (material, physical, and textual) which are inescapably central to the theatrical performance.

Texts:听TBA

Evaluation:听TBA

Format:听TBA

Prerequisites:听狈辞苍别

Description:听This course, one of three required for the Cultural Studies concentration in the English major, will introduce various critical efforts to theorize the aesthetics, semiotics, and politics of popular culture over the past century. Beginning with a few crucial theoretical touchstones (Marx, Freud, structuralism), we will survey such critical movements as the Frankfurt School, American 鈥渕asscult and midcult鈥� theory, the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, critical race studies, queer theory, and various feminisms, as they each formulate critical frameworks to explain how culture works. Along the way, we will consider the following questions: What does the 鈥減opular鈥� in 鈥減opular culture鈥� mean? Does the distinction between 鈥渉igh鈥� and 鈥渓ow鈥� culture have a political dimension? Furthermore, when we do cultural studies, whose culture should be investigated? And who should do the investigating? Finally, how can we grasp the meanings of popular culture: by examining the texts themselves, or by studying the audiences鈥� interpretations and uses of these texts?

Texts:听Roland Barthes,听Mythologies
Essays by Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Andreas Huyssen, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Dick Hebdige, Louis Althusser, John Fiske, Janice Radway, Laura Kipnis, Constance Penley, and others

Evaluation:听TBA

Format:听Lecture, weekly TA-led conferences

Average Enrollment:听150 students

Prerequisite:听 Restricted to Cultural Studies majors/minors and Film Studies minors

Description:听This course is designed to prepare students for future film courses at 平特五不中.听 It is therefore dedicated to three main goals: establishing a frame of reference for the history of film and film theory, introducing key analytical concepts and skills, and inspiring an ongoing interest in film.
NOTE:听This course is for Cultural Studies majors/minors and Film Studies minors only, and to maintain fairness no exceptions can be made.听

Required Texts听(subject to change):听James Monaco听How to Read a Film, 3^rd听edition;听and a coursepack

Evaluation:听Journal 20%, conferences 15%, quiz 10%, 5-page paper 20%, final 35%

Format:听Lecture and conferences plus weekly screenings