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Description:听This is a survey of British and Anglophone literature from the late 18^th 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, Ben Okri, 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 class, 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 (Vol. 2; 9^th edition)
• Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
• Sam Selvon: The Lonely Londoners

贰惫补濒耻补迟颈辞苍:听Essay 30%, Midterm 25%, Final exam 35%, Short assignments and 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This is a survey of nondramatic English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the eighteenth century. We will read a selection of texts from various genres, including epics and mock epics; sonnets and satires; and romances and autobiographies. The authors covered range from those who have long been considered part of the canon (Chaucer, Milton) to the recently recovered (Margery Kempe). Throughout the course, we will pause to reflect critically on how the canon of English literature has been constructed and what it means to call a text 鈥渃anonical.鈥� Other topics of discussion and debate will include the emergence of a modern, standardized English language, the contested origins of the English novel, and the popularity of female authors in the eighteenth century. The course will locate each text within its historical context and, in doing so, chart the development of various literary movements, forms and genres over several centuries. This broad, macroscopic focus will be counterbalanced by an emphasis on close reading. Students will be given the opportunity to develop and refine their skills of literary analysis. This course provides a grounding in early English literature that prepares students for more specialized study in the Minor, Major, and Honours program.听

Texts:听Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Concise Edition, Volume A (available at the Word Bookstore, 469 Milton Street)

Evaluation:听

• Midterm 鈥� 25%
• Essay 鈥� 30%
• Final Exam 鈥� 30%
• Attendance and participation (in conferences) 鈥� 15%

贵辞谤尘补迟:听Lectures and conferences

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Mansfield Park听(1814)
• 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A representative sampling of Shakespeare鈥檚 plays will provide an introduction to the scope and variety of his drama as it relates to his cultural context and to the main genres of his writing.

Texts:听

A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream
Henry IV, Part One
As You Like It
King Lear
The Tempest

贰惫补濒耻补迟颈辞苍:听term paper, 50%;听 take-home final exam, 40%;听 conference attendance and participation, 10%

Format:听lectures and weekly conferences

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:(available at the 平特五不中 Bookstore)

• The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Literature since 1945. Eighth Edition. Volume E. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011
• DeLillo, Don. White Noise
• Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar 听 听听
• Walter, Jess. The Financial Lives of the Poets

Evaluation:听

• Mid-Term Exam: 25%
• Final Exam: 35%
• Essay: 25% (4 pages)
• Conference Participation: 15%

Format:听Lecture and Conferences

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 drama through contemporary Canadian and postcolonial performance, and including the Department of English mainstage show.听 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.听

Texts:听Available at the 平特五不中 Bookstore and on Reserve. W.B. Worthen, ed. The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama 5^th Brief Edition.听

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

Evaluation:听Midterm exam (25%); final exam (50%); participation (10%); short essay (15%)

Format:听Lecture (2 hours/week) plus discussion sections (1 hour/week)

Enrolment Cap: 140

Description:听This course will offer an overview of the study of the novel, with an emphasis on works that are formally and representationally innovative. In particular, we鈥檒l examine novels that might be grouped together under the label of meta-fictional or self-conscious narrative. We鈥檒l focus especially on novels that not only represent consciousness鈥攑sychologically rich realist works鈥攂ut also playfully identify their own fictionality. In all of this, we will be highly conscious of the relationship between reader and text: how writers, through the development of certain novelistic techniques, control the experience of a work, shaping (and sometimes misleading) a reader鈥檚 perceptions of that fictional world.

Texts:听

• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
• Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (vol. I)
• Jane Austen, Emma
• Henry James, Turn of the Screw
• Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
• Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
• Ian McEwan, Atonement

Evaluation:

• Attendance/Participation: 15%
• 3 Response Papers (500 words): 45% (15% each)
• Peer Review: 5%
• Final Essay: 40%

Format:听TBA

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The Practical Handbook for the Actor by Melissa Bruder, et al. (Vintage Books, 1986). 听Actions: The Actor's Thesaurus by Marina Calderone and Maggie Lloyd-Williams (Drama Publishers, 2004). Plays TBA.

Evaluation:听Class Participation 20%; Rehearsals and Presentations 55%; Written Analysis, Journals and Critiques 25%

贵辞谤尘补迟:听Improvisation; games; movement exercises; text interpretation; background research; scene work; warm-ups; discussion; presentations.听

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, Mythologies.听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, Sara Ahmed, and others听

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: 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coursepack

Evaluation:听quiz 10%, 3-4 page paper 15%, 5-6 page paper 25%, conferences 15%, posted class notes 5%, final 30%

Format:听Lecture and conferences plus weekly screenings

Average听Enrolment:听140