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AP/EN 4420 6.0 African Drama

The course investigates the cultural and linguistic diversities of Africa and the constitutive roles of language, gender, history, the local, and the universal, in the production of African Drama. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4420 6.00 was AS/EN 4235 6.00

AP/EN 4412 3.0 Transnational Writers: Amitav Ghosh

Examines the major novels and other prose works of Amitav Ghosh, one of the most prolific writers of our time. Ghosh's fiction and prose situate India within a global context as he portrays characters caught in the large movements of history such as the subcontinent's partition, the slave trade, the Second World War and the […]

AP/EN 4411 3.0 Derek Walcott

The course considers Derek Walcott's development as a poet and dramatist. It analyses Walcott's main themes, forms and techniques, and attempts to assess his success in incorporating diverse cultural and technical influences into a distinctive West Indian style.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4230D 3.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), […]

AP/EN 4410 3.0 Caribbean Performance and Memory

This course examines Caribbean literary and cultural production - poetry, drama, fiction, film - in the post-colonial era with particular attention to each text's contribution to social memory and constructions of community.Course credit exclusion: AP/EN 4410 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/EN 4234 6.00.

AP/EN 4400 6.0 Diaspora Literatures

This course interprets diaspora broadly and addresses recent fiction written by migrant minorities (especially new immigrants who form visible minorities) and national minorities (such as the African diaspora and indigenous/tribal cultures) in Britain, Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. AP/EN 4400 6.00 (Diaspora Literatures) is based on AS/EN 4233 6.00 (Studies in Post-Colonial Literature: […]

AP/EN 4390 6.0 Contemporary American Gothic

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. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4390 6.00 was AS/EN 4218 6.00

AP/EN 4384 3.0 20th Century American Humour

This course looks in-depth at American humour in the 20th century. Writers surveyed may include H.L. Mencken, Will Rogers, Dorothy Parker, E.B. White, James Thurber, Frank Sullivan, Peter De Vries, Robert Benchley, Fran Lebowitz, Molly Ivins, Cynthia Heimel, David Sedaris, Woody Allen, and Regina Barreca.Prerequisites: For English Majors/Minors only; AP/EN 1001 3.00 (with a grade […]

AP/EN 4360 3.0 Literature of the American South

Surveys a wide variety of novels, plays, poems, short stories and essays from and about the American South.Prerequisites: For English Majors/Minors only; AP/EN 1001 3.00 (with a grade of C or higher) and AP/EN 1002 3.00 (with a grade of C or higher). Course credit exclusions: None. Open to: Yr 04 English, ENPR, PRWR and […]

AP/EN 4352 3.0 F. Scott Fitzgerald

This course studies novels, selected short stories and essays by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some of the notebook entries, letters, juvenilia and memoirs relating to his theories of writing and his own fiction in particular are considered. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4552 3.00 (F. Scott Fitzgerald) was AS/EN 4267 3.00 (Studies in Prose Fiction: F. […]

AP/EN 4341 3.0 Wharton and Cather

This course examines the contributions to early 20th-century American fiction of two influential women writers, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather. Each in her own way subverted or radicalized what had been a canonical male-dominated tradition in 19th-century America.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4210E 3.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), […]