The course considers the ghost story's tenacious hold on the Victorian popular imagination despite the period's empirical philosophy, growing medical, scientific, and technological knowledge, and devotion to industrialism.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/EN 4256 3.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4573 3.00 was AS/EN 4256 3.00
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: […]
Applying various critical approaches, the course examines Poe's tales of horror, his detective fiction, his one novel, his lyric poetry, and his critical theories about the short story and poetry. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4332 3.00 (Edgar Allan Poe) was AS/EN 4219 3.00 (Studies in the Literature of the U.S.: Poe)
Explores the Canadian graphic novel. It examines the development of this literary form in Canada and analyzes a range of graphic novels. Topics may include: the historical graphic novel, race and representation, and the intersection of visual culture and literary criticism. Please consult the department supplemental calendar for a detailed course description. Prerequisites: For English […]
Studies in theatre and drama of recent decades; selected American, British, Canadian and European plays. Course credit exclusion: AP/EN 4140 3.00. AP/EN 4140 6.00 is based on AK/EN 3930 6.00 and AS/EN 4320 6.00.
What is queer? Is queer always contaminated by sexuality? How is "queer" different from "gay"/"lesbian"? This course will consider the historical conditions for the emergence of queer theory and the intellectual/political/cultural uses of and stakes in queer theory.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/EN 4480 3.00.
An introduction to the study of Shakespeare's plays. Course credit exclusions: AP/EN 3536 6.00, GL/DRST 3620 6.00, GL/EN 3620 6.00.
CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP WRIT 3013 The nature, powers and limits of comedy are explored through reading a selection of comedies from Elizabethan to modern times.
Dealing with 19th- and 20th-century travel writing (British, Canadian, American, African, Asian and Caribbean), this course examines the construction of a travelling/narrating self, its representations of other landscapes, cultures and peoples and the writer's rhetorical strategies.Course credit exclusion: AP/EN 2305 3.00 (prior to Fall 2011). PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/EN 2260 3.00.
This course surveys a wide range of literary forms and genres (myth, epic, ballad, lyric, drama, romance, novel), from ancient to contemporary times, drawing on literatures from all areas of the globe. The course also surveys critical interrogations of world literature.Prerequisites: English Majors/Minors must complete AP/EN 1001 3.00 (with a grade of D or higher) […]