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
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.
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.
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)
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.
Provides an opportunity for sustained research under the direction of a member of the department on topics not covered in the English curriculum. The research may take the form of either a thesis or a work placement.Open only to Honours English students who have passed at least 84 credits, with the permission of the director […]
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.
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) […]
An introduction to the study of drama, presented from a theatrical as well as a literary point of view, with the emphasis on the changing nature of dramatic convention and the relation of plays to their historical background. PRIOR TO FALL 2010: Course credit exclusions: GL/DRST 2610 3.00, GL/DRST 2612 3.00, GL/EN 2610 3.00, GL/EN […]