Courses

Please note that not every course listed is offered each year and students should consult STU Self Service for current course offerings.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

1. Introductory Course

ENGL-1006.

An introduction to the central ideas, chronology questions, assumptions, and methods of the study of literatures in English. Students will engage in critical reading and learn to write about ideas and texts in conventional academic language and forms.

ENGL-1016. English Literatures in History and , Culture

An introduction to literatures in English including, but not restricted to, the British literary canon. It teaches students to read and write effectively, and to locate texts in history and culture. The course includes a chronological introduction sensitive to the structures and intersections of literary periods. NOTe: students will not receive credit for both ENGL 1023 and ENGL 1016.

ENGL-1023. Introduction to the Study of Literature

This course introduces students to the conventions of literary study. It offers reading strategies and techniques that permit the student to make sense of difficult or alien readings. At the same time, the ability to communicate understanding of literary texts through the conventions of scholarly essay writing is emphasized. Students will not only become effective readers and communicators in this course-they will come to appreciate some of the most important literary texts that the English language has produced. Note: students will not receive credit for both ENGL 1023 and ENGL 1016.

ENGL-1203. Introduction to Film Studies

This course aims to familiarize students with the terminology and key concepts of Film Studies as an academic discipline. Through a survey of various styles and narrative traditions, students are introduced to the main critical approaches used to understand cinema, including genre studies and Auteur theory. The course also focuses on the interpretation of films as the expression of a national ethos, and as a representation of gender and class, as well as racial, ethnic and cultural identities. While there is a historical dimension to the course, it does not follow a strictly historical chronology in the presentation of films or issues. The course includes lectures, discussions and film screenings.

ENGL-1903. Reading and Responding to , Indigenous Canadian Literatures

Students will engage with texts by indigenous Canadian writers such as Thomas King, Richard Wagamese and Rita Joe, by writing both creative and analytical responses, which will be read and discussed in class.

2. Intermediate Course

3. Advanced Course

ENGL-3103. Advanced Poetry Workshop

This is an advanced course for students who discovered an affinity for poetry in the introductory course(s). This course provides the opportunity for students to generate and rewrite poems. Prerequisite: ENGL 2113 or 2123.

ENGL-3113. Advanced Prose Workshop

This is an advanced course for students who discovered an affinity for creative prose in the introductory course(s). This course will provide the opportunity for students to generate and rewrite work. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or 2123.

ENGL-3123. Advanced Script Workshop

This is an advanced course for students who discovered an affinity for writing scripts for stage, screen, or both. It will provide the opportunity for students to generate and rewrite scripts. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or 2123.

ENGL-3133. Visual Texts Workshop

We constantly encounter texts and images together, from advertisements, through graphic novels, to the "high-art" work of artists like Rene Magritte. However, the part of the brain that processes images is on the opposite side of that which process text, which means that they are always in a state of dynamic tension. In this creative writing course, students create and discuss work exploring that tension. Prerequisite: either ENGL 2113: Creative Writing Skills, or ENGL 2123: Creative Writing Strategies or permission of the instructor.

ENGL-3153. Literary Publishing

This course will provide students with an understanding of the current, evolving state of literary publishing in Canada. Topics can range from proposal and manuscript submission to the production, marketing, and distribution of print and electronic books. The role of publishing within wider literary culture will also be considered. Prerequisite: ENGL 2113 or 2123, or permission of the instructor.

ENGL-3163. Queer Medias & Mediating Queer (WSGS)

This course explores intersections between the terms "queer" and "media": representations of queer(nes)s in contemporary media, theories about how sexual identity emerges through complex forms of social mediation, and how queer countercultures have mediated (or "intervened" into) forces of hetero-normativity. Media forms include public monuments, DIY zines, comic strips, indie films, television, AIDS education pamphlets, novels, poetry, theatre, as well as critical theory. (Post-1800) Prerequisite: ENGL 2013

ENGL-3213. Art Cinema

An introduction to the development, influence and major trends of art cinema in the 20th century. Prerequisite: ENGL 2013 and ENGL 2723. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3223. Auteur Cinema

A study of the cinema of some of the major auteurs of the 20th century. Among the artists considered are Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Renoir, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Mike Leigh, Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese, and David Cronenberg. Prerequisite: ENGL 2013 and ENGL 2723. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3233. Digital Projects and Digital Reading

This course introduces the principles, tools, and primary readings for "digital humanities" work, including how to incorporate digital presentation and analysis into literary scholarship. Students learn how distant reading techniques, timeline creation, network analysis, topic modelling, and hypertext mark-up contribute to media and literary analysis. Students develop a multimodal digital project in collaboration with peers. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3236.

A study of the dramatic literature and practice of the period between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, with attention not only to the literature but to its artistic and social context. Participants in the course collaboratively investigate not only the plays, but also the theatres they were performed in, the society which supported the theatres, and the ideas about drama and literature voiced by their practitioners and their critics. We pay attention to the nature of literature written for performance, and to the implications of the social context for the kinds of texts produced. This course requires students to use the St. Thomas computer network. Ability to use computers is, however, not a prerequisite. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3306. Middle English Literature

An introduction to the literature and language of the 14th-15th centuries. Genres studied include estates satire, fabliau, dream vision, drama, romance, chronicle, travelogue, lyric and beast fable. Major authors may include Chaucer, Gower and the Gawain-poet. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3313. Americans and Modernism

A survey of several of the major themes and forms of the modern movement. Topics covered include: the advent of free verse as the dominant form in modern poetry, the role of myth and history in the central works of the great moderns, and the First World War and its aftermath. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800; American)

ENGL-3316. Shakespeare and the Drama of His Age

A study of plays of Shakespeare, his predecessors, and contemporaries such as Marlowe and Jonson. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3323. Major Modernist Texts

A survey of the impact of the electronic age on the novel and short fiction, the birth of metafiction and the anti-novel, the feminist movement, the advent of the post-colonial, and the post-modern response. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3326. Seventeenth Century Literature

A study of the prose and poetry of Jonson, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, and the minor writers of the age. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800).

ENGL-3336.

An investigation of poetry, prose fiction, and nonfiction between 1660 and the French Revolution, and the intellectual and social context of the important writers and their work. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3343. Advanced Old English

This course will continue the study of Old English, focussing on translation of prose and poetry. Prerequisite: ENGL 2013 and ENGL 2346. (Pre-1800; Language.)

ENGL-3356. Arthurian Literature

An exploration of the extensive traditions surrounding King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL.(Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3363. The Romantic Period I

A study of the writings of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and their contemporaries. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3373. The Romantic Period II

A study of the writings of William Blake, Percy and Mary Shelley, and their contemporaries. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3383. Victorian Literature Survey

Through a study of British poetry, prose (fiction and non-fiction), and drama, students discover the Victorians' profound impact - politically, geographically, scientifically, technologically, sexually, historically - on Western culture. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Categories: Cultural Studies, National or Regional).

ENGL-3386. 16th Century Poetry & Prose

An exploration of the non-dramatic literature of the 16th century. A range of poetic genres including romance and the sonnet are examined as well as examples of prose fiction. Authors such as Marlowe, Sidney, Shakespeare, and Greene are included. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3393. Victorian Authors and Movements

A study of the works of selected British Victorian authors (such as the Brontë sisters, Eliot, Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rossetti siblings, Morris, etc.) in the context of the movements they initiated (such as the Pre--Raphaelites, Arts and Crafts, Socialism, Aesthetics, etc.). The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3396.

An introduction to the basics of Old English language, literature, and culture. We will read several poems including The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Wulf, The Dream of the Rood and selections of Beowulf in Old English. (Categories: Genres, National or Regional).

ENGL-3403. Canadian Poetry

A tracing of the development of a uniquely Canadian poetic voice from the eighteenth century beginnings of Canadian poetry, through the Confederation and early modernist periods, to its flowering in Montreal in the 1950s and the west coast in the 1960s. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800; Canadian.)

ENGL-3413.

An exploration of African-American fiction and poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and African-American literature's commentary on itself in the form of criticism and theory.(Categories: National or Regional, Cultural Studies).

ENGL-3416. American Literature

A study of the major authors of nineteenth and twentieth century American Literature. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800; American.)

ENGL-3423. Modern Irish Drama (IRSH)

A study of selected plays from the major Irish dramatists of the 20th century. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3433. World Literature in English: West , Indies and Africa (HMRT)

An introduction to the range of literary expressions of writers from the non-Western cultures of the West Indies and Africa. The major genre studied is the novel, though poetry and essays are also examined. The focus of the course is to study the concerns of the colonized, those who were swept up by British expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3443. World Literature in English: India , (HMRT)

An introduction to the range of literary expressions of writers from the Indian Subcontinent. The two major genres studied are the novel and short fiction, though poetry and essays are also examined. The focus of the course is to study the concerns of the colonized, those who were swept up by British expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3453. Roots of Canadian Theatre: , Representation and Colonization

An exploration of the emergence of theatre in Canada by examining pre- and post-Confed- eration plays. This course traces Canadian theatre, from its early appearance at Annapolis Royal in 1606 to the contemporary period, with a thematic emphasis on its colonial and postcolonial roots and their representations on stage and in text. Playwrights considered may include Lescarbot, Ryga, French, Thompson, and Clements. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800; Canadian.)

ENGL-3456.

An exploration of Canadian dramatic works from the 19th century to the present, but focusing largely on post-1967 plays. Representative playwrights include George Ryga, John Herbert, Michel Tremblay, Sharon Pollock, Tomson Highway, Judith Thompson, and George F. Walker. (National or Regional, Creative/Performance)

ENGL-3463. Contemporary Canadian Theatre: , Text, Form, and Performance

An analysis of recent Canadian plays with an emphasis on their cultural contexts, structural forms, and performance receptions. Students examine post-Centennial Canadian theatre with an emphasis on emergent writing styles and dramaturgical structures and their relationship to their cultural context. Playwrights and text creators considered may include Nowlan and Learning, Theatre Passe Murielle, Watson, Clark, Young, Hollingsworth, and Tannehill. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800; Canadian)

ENGL-3473. Irish Film II (IRSH)

In this course students will study native Irish culture and the culture of the diaspora through the medium of film. The course continues to explore the themes outlined in Irish Film I, but there is a more sustained concentration on films produced from the 1980s to the present. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3483. Irish Film I (IRSH)

A study of native Irish culture and the culture of the Irish diaspora. Students view films of high realist auteurs as well as adaptations of novels, short stories, and plays to the big screen. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3493. New Brunswick Literature, Film and Art

This course will study the cultural mosaic of New Brunswick in fiction, poetry, film, music, and art. We will begin with settler literature and advance to the present. This course will also undertake archival research. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800; Canadian.)

ENGL-3503. The Classical Epic

An introduction to the conventions of the epic and to classical mythology. Texts may include Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad, and Vergil's Aeneid. All texts are in translation. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3506.

A study of the development of the novel from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. (Categories: Genres, Authors and Authorship).

ENGL-3513. Northern Epic

An exploration of several key non-classical epics arising out of post-Roman Europe. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3523. Early 18th Century Literature

A study of popular writings of the early eighteenth century when literature and journalism began to differentiate from each other and to be produced and consumed, variously, as aesthetic and commercial products. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3543.

A survey of the (mostly) British and American writers of the Modern Movement up to and including World War II. (Categories: Genres, Authors and Authorship).

ENGL-3553.

A survey of the (mostly) British and American writers of the Modern Movement from World War II to the present. (Categories: Genres, Authors and Authorship).

ENGL-3563. Drama and Its Critics (JOUR)

This course introduces students to the history and practice of theatre reviewing with emphasis on the Canadian context from the nineteenth century to the present. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3573. Later 18th Century Literature

A study of the formation of English literary culture in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3583. Modern Theatre: , Scandal, War, Morality

Through critical analysis and interpretations of influential dramatic texts, this course explores plays, playwrights, and major aesthetic movements in the theatre from the late-19th century to the mid-20th century.The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3593. Twentieth-Century Theatre: Gender, Power , Performance

Through critical analysis and interpretation of dramatic texts, this course explores plays, playwrights, and major aesthetic movements in the theatre from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Gender, feminism, and queer theory; the avant-garde and experimental performance; violence, nationalism, and monarchy; and "race," postcoloniality, and contemporary life are examined in dramatic texts and performances. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800)

ENGL-3623. The Literature of Politics

A survey of the literary treatment of political themes, from classical times to the present, in fiction, drama, poetry, essays, and film. The various themes explored include the conflict between the family and the state, nationalism, imperialism, totalitarianism, the postcolonial world, and the relationship between artist and politics. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3633.

An investigation of the literature of illness and healing. Poetry, prose fiction, and autobiographical writing are examined to explore the narrative modes that both distinguish and connect patient and physician.(Categories: Authors and Authorship, Cultural Studies).

ENGL-3643. Fantasy

An exploration of the origins and development of fantasy literature, as well as recurrent themes and contemporary issues which appear in modern fantasy. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL.

ENGL-3656. Love and Friendship (GRBK)

An exploration of the interrelated themes of friendship, love and beauty. Each theme is examined separately and as connected to the others. Ancient and modern texts are used to examine the ways that different ages have addressed these fundamentally personal and yet common human experiences. Texts vary from year to year, but may include works such as Plato's Symposium, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Rousseau's Confessions, Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness, Woolf's Orlando, and Bellow's Ravelstein. Prerequisite: GRBK 3006 or permission of the instructors. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3666.

A study of the way in which diverse thinkers have considered the question of human nature. This question is sharpened with a consideration of the way in which human beings considered as natural beings use and are affected by technology. Texts vary from year to year, but may include works such as: Aeschylus' Promethus Bound, Bacon's New Alantis, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Grant's Technology and Empire, Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology, Shelley's Frankenstein, Gaskell's North and South, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Sterling's Holy Fire. Prerequisite: GRID 2012 or permission of instructors. (Categories: Genres, Cultural Studies).

ENGL-3673. The Film of Politics

This course surveys the portrayal of political themes in selected narrative fiction films from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. Students will study the cinema of major auteurs, the movie of Hollywood and the critically acclaimed films of Art House and World Cinema. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3706. Shakespeare and Politics (GRBK)

An exploration of the works of Shakespeare in the context of Renaissance political thought as reflected in his plays and in early modern political texts. We focus on the plays, although Shakespeare's non-dramatic works may be included, as well as modern film adaptations. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3713.

A tracing of the arc of Joyce's career from the short story collection Dubliners to Finnegan's Wake. The primary focus of the course is the study of Ulysses. In addition, Joyce's influence on the modern novel, his understanding and embracing of cinema, his perfecting of the interior monologue, and his employment of the stream of consciousness technique will all be considered. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, National or Regional).

ENGL-3723. Jane Austen

An examination of the novels of Jane Austen set against the cultural contexts that produced and popularized them. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3743.

An examination of the novels of Jane Austen against the cultural contexts that produced and popularized them. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, Cultural Studies).

ENGL-3793. Advanced Old English: , Literature and Landscape

An exploration of Anglo-Saxon poetry, with particular focus on 'elegies' and epic and their landscapes. The course focusses on the scholarship of translation: students will translate all texts themselves, taking into account the material culture, geography, geology and history of the locations around them. This course is taught in the United Kingdom, while travelling to various sites associated with the literature (e.g. Beowulf and Sutton Hoo; monsters and the Fens; "Caedmon's Hymn" and Whitby Abbey). The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3803.

An exploration of psychoanalytic theory and its application to literature and popular culture, with a concentration on the metapsychological theory of Sigmund Freud and its subsequent development by Jacques Lacan. Many of the rich and complex concepts of psychoanalysis are illustrated through film, fiction, and poetry. (Categories: Cultural Studies, Literary Theory and Method).

ENGL-3813. Contemporary Theory III: Gender and , Sexuality

An exploration of contemporary theories of gender and sexuality, focusing on the manner in which gender, sexuality, and their attendant identity politics are re-visioned in terms of their constructedness, over against normalizing conceptions of sexual identity. Readings are taken from a diversity of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, feminism, philosophy, and literary theory. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3823. The History of Literary Theory

An introduction to the historical texts and sources for contemporary literary theory, which explores the manner in which the questions that shape contemporary inquiry in the human sciences are precisely those that humanity has been asking for the last 3000 years. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3833. 21st Century Necropolitics in the Age of , Neoliberalism

An introduction to key thinkers of the 21st century whose thought has shaped humanist inquiry across a host of disciplines. We engage these thinkers in terms of the manner in which they have re-shaped our perceptions of, and ability to engage, power and authority. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3863. Early Dramatic Theory

This course examines influential thinking and writing about drama, theatre, and performance by philosophers, theorists, clergy, and practitioners since the classical period, with a pre-nineteenth-century emphasis. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-3903.

This course will examine the nature of freedom in the context of human life and community. Questions to be addressed will include: To what extent are human beings free by nature? Should political communities promote freedom? What might be appropriate limitations on our freedom? Prerequisite: GRID 2006. (Categories: Genres).

ENGL-3906. Freedom (GRBK)

ENGL-3923. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

In this course we study one of medieval England's "bestsellers," Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in detail. The Tales respond to the social tumult and linguistic shifts of Chaucer's day with a colourful cast of characters who pushed English literature into the limelight of the European literary milieu. The Tales offers a truly panoramic view of medieval English society that raises issues of class, gender politics, race, political satire, sex, and social unrest. Over the semester your knowledge of medieval literature, The Canterbury Tales, and your skills in reading Middle English will develop. Open to all students beyond first year.

ENGL-3926. World Literature: The Muslim , Imagination

An exploration of the Muslim literary imagination through the study of poetry, prose, biography, fiction, and drama produced by writers of Muslim origin from classical to modern times, interspersed with examples of its dialogue with Western poetry, fiction, drama, and prose. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL.

ENGL-3943. Pre-1800 Literature I

The content of this course will reflect the expertise of Department faculty and consist of advanced treatment of a topic, genre, author, or authors in one or more areas of specialization in pre-1800 literature, including Medieval, Renaissance, Seventeenth-century, or Eighteenth-century English literature. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL.

ENGL-3953. Pre-1800 Literature II

ENGL-3973. Introduction to Narrative , Analysis (SCWK, SOCI, GERO, PSYC)

Framed around three key approaches to narrative this course will provide students with the basis on which to develop their understanding of narrative and their skills in narrative analysis. The three approaches are: the narrative study of lives; the narrative analysis of texts; and, the analysis of narrative dynamics. Through these approaches students will be introduced to the work of key narrative thinkers. The course, in content and delivery, reflects the inter-disciplinary nature of narrative. (Post-1800.)

ENGL-3993. Radical British Novels of the 1790s

A study of novels inspired by the ideals of the American and French revolutions and published in England in the 1790s. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

ENGL-39XX. Special Topics

The content of this course changes from year to year to reflect the special strengths of the Department and the particular needs of the students. It consists of an advanced treatment of a topic or an area in literature.

ENGL-4153. Senior Project in Creative Writing

The Senior Project gives a student the opportunity to work on an extended project, as author, translator or chief editor. Beginning with a proposal including a description of the project and a survey of similar works, students will create or compile an extended text. It is recommended that students take ENGL 4153 in their final year of study. The prerequisites are one of the following courses: ENGL 3103, 3113, 3123, or 3133 and permission of the instructor.

ENGL-4196. Honours Thesis in Creative Writing

Advanced creative writing students will choose from among the genres which they studied in their second and third year creative writing courses, to propose and then create a long project that will develop their writing habits, their depth of understanding of the genre, and their publishability. Depending on the proposal, this course may partially fulfill the post-1800 requirement. Prerequisites: Acceptance into Honours English, and one of the following courses: ENGL 3103, 3113,

ENGL-4223. Seminar in Microperformance

Performance is a way of knowing. In this capstone course in the Drama Concentration, students engage in Performance-Based Research in order to develop a series of "microperformances" on contemporary issues in contrasting theatrical forms. These forms may include invisible theatre, forum theatre, naturalism, agitprop, devised theatre, futurism, and Brechtian epic theatre. Enrolment is restricted to students who have received permission from the instructor. Pre-requisite: ENGL 2013 or Research Methods in any discipline.

ENGL-4326.

Literary modernism written in English invites various strategies for approaching and contextualizing its notoriously difficult texts. In addition to fiction, poetry, and drama, we will explore film, music, art, architecture, and sculpture as well as significant critical, philosophical, religious, and ideological streams of thought. Also examined will be the evolving term "modernism" and its changing meaning in the history of its critical use. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, Cultural Studies).

ENGL-4336.

This course explores the works of the twentieth-century group of writers known as the Inklings, whose members included Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien. These Christian writers produced some of the most influential modern fantasy literature. We will consider their role in shaping the genre, consider the relation of form to content, and discuss their impact on the subsequent development of the genre. 6 credit hours. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, Genre)

ENGL-4393.

This course will continue the study of Old English, focussing on translation of prose and poetry. Pre-requisite: ENGL-3396. (Categories: Genres; Creative & Performative)

ENGL-4416.

Students will do original research in this thriving and yet critically neglected area of literature, including meeting many of the authors. By working cooperatively on major papers from both terms, students will gain experience into the editing and revision required to produce an academic paper. (Categories: National or Regional, Authors and Authorship)

ENGL-4426.

Students will do original, scholarly research in this thriving and yet critically neglected area of literature, including meeting several of the authors. By working cooperatively on major projects in both terms, students will gain experience into the editing and revision required to produce an academic paper. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, National and Regional).

ENGL-4566. Into the Woods and Down the Rabbit Hole , : Fairy Tales, Old Wives and the , Spinning of Yarns

We will read classic fairy tales (in translation where necessary) in familiar and unfamiliar versions. Texts can include fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, but also Angela Carter, Neil Gaiman, Sara Maitland, A. S. Byatt and others. Prerequisites: admission to the Honours programme in English, or 3.4 GPA standing for English Majors. (Post-1800)

ENGL-4586. House of Leaves: , A Janus-Faced Look At Media

Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves is considered and re-considered, over two terms with two instructors, in parallax from book culture and digital culture. The first term investigates the modernist and postmodernist precursors to this metafictional work and explores the concept of "meta-annotation" in the appropriation of literary critics and their work into the body of a novel twice-annotated by its own characters. The second term explores the expanding universe of digitally born literature using a (re)-reading of House of Leaves as its starting point.

ENGL-4696.

The re-situation of literature in scientific and capitalist modernity is examined through the writings and precursors of Samuel Johnson, author of the English dictionary, his biographer, James Boswell, and their circle in eighteenth-century London. Both Johnson and Boswell became central to literary production of the time, yet their works register anxiety and exhibit marked eccentricity over questions about what literature is to be valued, and how, in an urban and commercial society.

ENGL-4706.

This course will discover the monstrous Middle Ages in literature, art, science, theology and philosophy. We will discuss bestiaries, shapeshifters, monstrous races, monstrous spaces and consider the idea of the Middle Ages as themselves Monster Time. (Categories: Cultural Studies and Literary Theory and Method)

ENGL-4716.

This course explores the non-dramatic literature of the sixteenth century. A range of poetic genres including romance, erotic minor epic, the complaint, and the sonnet will be examined, as well as examples of prose fiction. Authors will include Marlowe, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wroth. (Categories: Genres and Cultural Studies)

ENGL-4736. Medieval Epic and Romance: , The Hero's Encounter with the , Marvelous

We will read (in translation) medieval European epics and romances from the 8th-14th Centuries. Texts may include Beowulf, Volsungasaga, Song of Roland, Poetic Edda, The Cid and works by Chrètien de Troyes and others. Prerequisites: admission to the Honours program in English, or 3.4 GPA standing for English Majors.(Pre-1800)

ENGL-4756. Public Women, Scandalous Memoirs: , Women's life writing in the eighteenth , century

This course looks at the many ways that women in the eighteenth-century used the emerging form of the novel to record their experiences and resist dominant narratives regarding expected patterns of female life.

ENGL-4786. Special Topics: , Reading the Sonnet Honours Seminar I , and II

This course offers an historical study of sonnets written in English. It will begin by looking at the historical antecedents of the sonnet form, such as Petrarch, Wyatt, and Surrey. It will emphasize the sonnet's increasing complexity as English authors such as Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Wroth, and several others develop it. Focus will be given to both sonnet sequences and occasional sonnets. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL.

ENGL-4836.

Versification encompasses both the practice and theory of the sound and form of poetry. We'll trace the various structures of sound patterning in English verse (including verse form, metre, and rhyme) from the 5th to the 21st century. Study of the versification practices of various poets will sensitize you to the aural aspect of verse, and enable you to be a more competent reader of poetry, from alliterative to free verse. We'll also explore the complex and contradictory theories of versification that have developed over the centuries.

ENGL-4856.

This course will give students the opportunity to explore the multiple dimensions of Eastern-Canadian story (by Eastern Canadian, I mean the historical territory of Lower Canada [southern Quebec] and what are now the Atlantic Provinces). Using the primary genres of the novel and film, the course will make its way across the eastern half of the country, stopping region by region to examine, through written and visual text, what writers and film-makers are saying about the uniqueness of their places. The objective is to construct a more informed sense of our nationhood and regionalisms than most students have.

ENGL-4866.

This course examines influential thinking and writing about drama and performance during the past three millennia. (Categories: Literary Theory & Method, Genre).

ENGL-4876.

This course explores the genre of life writing, which includes biography, autobiography, and memoir (and, arguably, journals and letters, as well). (Categories: Genres, Authors and Authorship).

ENGL-4886. Sound and Form in English Poetry

A study of the sounds and forms of English poetry, from the 5th to the 21st century. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800; Language).

ENGL-4896. The Occult in 20th Century Literature

An investigation into literary engagement with the occult in the 20th century. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800).

ENGL-4966.

This course will focus on the nonfictional literature of the period between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, with attention not only to the literature but to its artistic and social contexts. Participants in the course will collaboratively investigate not only the texts, but also the venues they were published in, the society which supported the venues, and the ideas about writing, journalism and literature voiced by their practitioners and their critics. We will pay attention to the nature of literature written as information, and to the implications of the social context for the kinds of texts roduced. This course will be based in substantial part on the St. Thomas computer network. (Genres, Creative and Performative)

ENGL-4976.

This course will examine the major themes and forms of responses to the modern movement. Topics covered will include: the advent of free verse as the dominant form in Modern Poetry, the role of myth and history in the central works of the great moderns, the impact of the electronic age on the novel, the First World War and its aftermath, the advent of the post-colonial and the post-modern. (Cultural Studies, Authors and Authorship)

ENGL-4996. Honours Thesis Course

The supervised writing of an Honours thesis by an Honours student.

ENGL-4XX6. Honours Seminar I and II

These courses vary from year to year, and normally treat only major writers from major periods. Required for Honours students. Majors with a GPA of 3.7 or higher may enrol in an Honours Seminar, space permitting.

ENGL-4XXX. Independent Study

A course of independent study under the supervision of a member of the English Department arranged with the consent of the Chair of the Department and in consultation with the professor. Enrolment is restricted to excellent students.