This seminar/workshop course introduces Creative Writing students to the knowledge and practical skills necessary to navigate careers as authors of poetry and literary prose in the Canadian publishing industry. Course content is divided equally between seminars and workshops. Seminars, which include lectures, guest speakers and field trips, inform students on the career practices of working […]
An examination of global gothic literature, this course explores the literature of horror and terror in a variety of texts from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, and Europe. Texts are read and situated in their regional, national, and/or diasporic contexts and in relation to questions of colonial history, post/anticolonialism, race, and globalization. This […]
Explores the connections between drugs and writing, including the intersections between religious, scientific and cultural thought and practice that go into constructing descriptions of drug experiences in our time. All human cultures have involved relationships with psychoactive plant substances (henceforth referred to as 'drugs'). In this course, we will explore the connection between drugs and […]
This course introduces students to Black poets living and writing in Canada and the United States in the late 20th century. It focuses on developing close reading skills to better understand what poetry is and how we experience the poetic, as well as critical debates within American studies around race, gender, class, and sexuality. This […]
This survey of California writing considers the state's polarizing hold on the imagination of various communities and constituents, considering an array of genres, styles, and thematic concerns.'The very name of California is splendor' enthused poet Vachel Lindsey in 1915, though by 1990 geographer Mike Davis had dubbed the state 'the junkyard of dreams.' From the […]
This course considers the ubiquity of the ghostly, the resonances of a haunted past, in recent American literature. It examines psychoanalytic, deconstructive, and social theories of gothic and considers persistence of traditional gothic motifs.
Thematically organized around studies in memory, this course traverses literature, philosophy, psychology and the visual arts, from Plato to the digital age, in an effort to understand the interrelatedness of all the arts with respect to one of the most complicated domains of human thought and practice.Course credit exclusions: AP/COMN 4780 6.00, AP/EN 4050 6.00. […]
This course seeks to provide students pursuing the Honours Major with specialized approaches to a special topic by exploring research and advanced methods of inquiry.
CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP WRIT 4723 This course encourages students to question the "authority" of texts and the editorial processes that produced them. Course credit exclusions: None.
This course engages the theoretical and practical problems in Shakespearean editorial scholarship and consequently, in how Shakespeare's canonicity has been transmitted, received, interpreted, and transformed by generations of literary critics. Our historical survey of seminal editions (and their theoretical underpinnings) begins with F1 (1623) and ends with the emergence of XML, and problems in the […]