AP/EN 4504 6.0 Arthurian Literature

A comparative historical examination of the adventure-romances, epics and spiritual narratives written in Medieval Europe about King Arthur and the Round-Table knights. Areas of study include the use of imaginative literature to control attitudes about warfare, gender, politics, spiritual development. PRIOR TO WINTER 2018: course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 3003 6.00.

AP/EN 4500 6.0 Studies in Old English Literature

A study of selected texts in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/EN 4220 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4500 6.00 was AS/EN 4220 6.00

AP/EN 4480 6.0 A History of Reading

CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP HIST 4230 This research seminar explores the history of books and their readers from antiquity to the present. Class is held in York's Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections, and includes trips to other area libraries. By studying books as material objects and communication technologies, we will investigate questions of intellectual property, […]

AP/EN 4462 3.0 German History and Memory in Comics

CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP GER 4752 This course analyzes representations of 20th-century German history in comics produced in Germany, Europe, North America and Japan. Students examine various genres to determine how artists employ comics' special narrative possibilities to recount the past, investigate the workings of memory, and make interventions into national and transnational memory discourses. All […]

AP/EN 4425 3.0 Post-apartheid South African Theatre

Examines post-apartheid South African theatre from the birth of the new democracy in 1994 to the present.Prerequisites: For English Majors/Minors only: AP/EN 1001 3.00 (with a grade of C (60%) or higher) and AP/EN 1002 3.00 (with a grade of C (60%) or higher). Course credit exclusions: None. Open to: Yr 04 Honours English, ENPR, […]

AP/EN 4422 3.0 Wole Soyinka

The course considers works by Wole Soyinka from his earliest play "The Loin and the Jewel" (1959) to his recent memoir "The Penkelemes Years" (1994). The aim is to examine the development of Soinka's principal themes and techniques.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4230E 3.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), […]

AP/EN 4421 3.0 African Diasporic Dialogues

Focusing on 20th-century African, Afro-Caribbean and African American fiction, this course explores elements of African cultures that emerge in diasporic writing, and how they have been shaped by historical, geographical and cultural factors that differentiate yet connect the writing.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4210G 3.00 (prior to Fall/Winter […]

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), […]