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ENGA10H3 Introduction to Literary Study: 1890 to World War II
An exploration of how literature reflects the artistic and cultural concerns that shaped the first part of the twentieth century. An introduction to university-level critical reading and interpretation, this course will analyse the writing of early twentieth-century men and women.
Exclusion: ENG140Y

ENGA11H3 Introduction to Literary Study: 1945 to Today
An exploration of how literature reflects the artistic and cultural concerns that shaped the world after the Second World War. An introduction to university-level critical reading and interpretation, this course will analyse the writing of late twentieth-century men and women from a range of backgrounds and nationalities.
Exclusion: ENG140Y

ENGB03H3 Critical Thinking About Narrative
An introduction to the literary analysis of narrative. This course will study closely a small number of narratives and narrative genres from different periods in order to develop the critical skills to analyse narratives.
Exclusion: (ENGB01Y), ENG110Y

ENGB04H3 Critical Thinking About Poetry
An introduction to the literary analysis of poetry. This course will study closely poems and poetic forms from different periods in order to develop the critical skills to analyse poetry.
Exclusion: ENG201Y

ENGB05H3 Critical Writing about Literature
Intensive training in critical writing about literature. Essay-writing skills (organization and argumentation; tone and voice; bibliographic style) for the study of English at the university level through group workshops and weekly writing assignments that culminate in two term papers.
Limited enrolment: 25 per section
Exclusion: (ENGB01H), (ENGB02H)
Corequisite: ENGB03H or ENGB04H

ENGB06H3 Canadian Literary Traditions
An examination of large issues and themes that have shaped Canadian literature. Focusing on the development and emergence of a Canadian literary tradition, this course examines the problems of writing in a New World nation, the emergence and definition of an indigenous tradition, and the challenges such a tradition faces.
Exclusion: ENG252Y

ENGB07H3 Nation in Canadian Writing
An examination of the formation of identity, of a sense of belonging, and of the problematics of nationhood in Canadian writing.
Exclusion: ENG252Y

ENGB08H3 Collisions of Culture and the Emergence of a Liberal Nation
An examination of Early American literature in historical context from colonization to the Civil War. This introductory survey places a wide variety of genres - including conquest and captivity narratives, theological tracts, sermons, and diaries, as well as classic novels and poems - in relation to the multiple subcultures of the period.
Pre-1900 course
Exclusion: ENG250Y

ENGB09H3 American Literature from the Civil War to the Present
An introductory survey of major novels, short fiction, poetry, and drama. An introductory survey of major novels, short fiction, poetry, and drama from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah, with an emphasis on themes of immigration, ethnicity, modernization, individualism, class, and community.
Exclusion: ENG250Y
Prerequisite: ENGB08H

ENGB10H3 Introduction to Shakespeare
An introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. Through the study of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Hamlet, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, The Tempest, and Romeo and Juliet, this course provides an introduction to the Elizabethan playhouse, the acting companies, and the development of drama.
Pre-1900 course
Exclusion: ENG220Y

ENGB11H3 The Beginnings of Modern Drama
A reading of plays from 1879 to the 1930s and after. Taking Ibsen's A Doll's House as the starting point, the course looks at drama by Pinero, Shaw, Wilde, and other authors - such as David Belasco, Stanley Houghton, John Galsworthy, Eugene O'Neill and Terence Rattigan.
Exclusion: ENG338Y

ENGB12H3 Life Writing
Life-writing, whether formal biography, chatty memoir, postmodern biotext, or published personal journal, is popular with writers and readers alike. This course introduces students to life-writing as a literary genre and explores major issues such as life-writing and fiction, life-writing and history, the contract between writer and reader, and gender and life-writing.
Exclusion: ENG232H

ENGB13H3 Drama after 1960
An exploration of drama in English since 1960. Authors studied will include playwrights such as Harold Pinter, Brian Friel, Caryl Churchill, August Wilson, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Tomson Highway, Athol Fugard, David Hwang, Sam Shepard, Beth Haney and others,
Exclusion: ENG339H

ENGB17H3 Contemporary Literature from the Caribbean
A study of fiction, drama, and poetry from the West Indies. The course will examine the relation of standard English to the spoken language; the problem of narrating a history of slavery and colonialism; the issues of race, gender, and nation; and the task of making West Indian literary forms.
Exclusion: ENG253Y, NEW223Y

ENGB19H3 Contemporary Literature from South Asia
A study of literature in English from South Asia, with emphasis on fiction from India. The course will examine the relation of English-language writing to indigenous South Asian traditions, the problem of narrating a history of colonialism and Partition, and the task of making the novel South Asian.
Exclusion: ENG253Y

ENGB24H3 Courtship in Literature
A variety of literary works that portray courtship. An examination of the treatment of courtship in literature and the way it has been affected by shifts in gender definition and in the nature of the family. We will consider the larger issues and anxieties that courtship literature addresses or responds to.
Pre-1900 course

ENGB25H3 The Canadian Short Story
A study of the Canadian short story. The Canadian short story has been vital to the Canadian literary tradition and has produced writers of international stature, including Munro, Atwood, Laurence, and Gallant.
Exclusion: ENG215H

ENGB34H3 The Short Story
An introduction to the short story as a literary form. This course examines the origins and recent development of the short story, its special appeal for writers and readers, and the particular effects it is able to produce.
Exclusion: ENG213H

ENGB35H3 Children's Literature
An introduction to children's literature. This course will locate children's literature within the history of social attitudes to children and in terms of such topics as authorial creativity, race, class, gender, and nationhood.
Exclusion: ENG234H

ENGB36H3 Detective Fiction
A study of the evolution and forms of detective fiction. This course examines the formal rules that govern detective fiction - a mainstay of mass media and a genre that has influenced literature - and the social contexts that make this a genre that has cut across classes, cultures, and continents.
Exclusion: ENG236H

ENGB41H3 Science Fiction
An examination of the genre of science fiction. This course will look at different forms of this genre (novels, short stories, and films), emphasizing the way a popular genre comes into being, the effect on the form of innovation, and the interaction that exists between science fiction and literary writing.
Exclusion: ENG237H

ENGB50H3 Women and Literature: Forging a Tradition
An examination of the development of a women's tradition of writing. This course considers the legacy and impact of writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Virginia Woolf
Exclusion: ENG233Y

ENGB51H3 Gender and Genre
An analysis of the role of gender in fiction, poetry, and drama. This course will examine such things as the genres women have gravitated toward and excelled at in the light of Woolf's claim that the novel was the genre most accessible to women because it was not entirely formed.

ENGB60H3 Creative Writing: Poetry
An introduction to the writing of poetry. This course will provide an introduction to the writing of poetry through workshop sessions. Admission by portfolio. Portfolios for students seeking admission should be left with the Humanities departmental assistant in H525A no later than the first Monday of October. They should contain a selected sample (5-15 pp.) of your strongest writing, which could include fiction, poems or essays. Do not include originals.
Exclusion: ENG369Y

ENGB61H3 Creative Writing: Fiction
An introduction to the writing of fiction. This course will provide an introduction to the writing of short fiction through workshop sessions. Admission by portfolio. (Portfolios for students seeking admission should be left with the Humanities departmental assistant in H525A no later than the first Monday of October. They should contain a selected sample (5-15 pp.) of your strongest writing, which could include fiction, poems or essays. Do not include originals.
Exclusion: ENG369Y

ENGB62H3 Creative Writing: Scripts and Drama
This course provides an introduction to script-writing through intensive workshop sessions. Admission by portfolio. Portfolios for students seeking admission should be left with the Humanities departmental assistant in H525A no later than the first Monday of October. They should contain a selected sample (5-15 pp.) of your strongest writing, which could include fiction, poems, or essays. Do not include originals.
Limited enrolment: 20

ENGB64H3 Native North American Literature
An introduction to Native North American writing with an emphasis on First Nations literature and culture of the last 30 years. Dealing with the literatures of a broad range of peoples and a wide variety of genres and styles, students will explore such issues as identity, representation, transmission, and translation.
Exclusion: ENG254Y

ENGB70H3 Introduction to Cinema
An introduction to the critical study of cinema, including films from a broad range of genres, countries, and eras, as well as readings representing the major critical approaches to cinema that have developed over the past century.
Exclusion: INI115Y

ENGB75H3 Cinema & Modernity I
An investigation of film genres such as melodrama, film noir, and the western from 1895 to the present. We will look at the creation of an ideological space and of new mythologies that helped organize the experience of modern life. Works of twentieth-century prose and poetry will also be studied.

ENGB76H3 Cinema & Modernity II
An investigation of film genres such as romance, gothic, and science fiction from 1895 to the present. We will look at the way cinema developed and created new mythologies that helped people organize the experience of modern life. Works of twentieth-century prose and poetry will also be studied.
Exclusion: ENG238H

ENGC02H3 Major Canadian Authors
An examination of three or more Canadian writers. This course will draw together selected major writers of Canadian fiction or of other forms.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or [ENGB06H or ENGB07H ]

ENGC03H3 Studies in Canadian Fiction
An analysis of Canadian fiction with regard to the problems of representation. Topics considered may include how Canadian fiction writers have responded to and documented the local; social rupture and historical trauma; and the problematics of representation for marginalized societies, groups, and identities.
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG216Y
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or [ENGB06H or ENGB07H ]

ENGC10H3 Studies in Shakespeare
Four chronicle history plays, and three "historical" tragedies of Shakespeare. Through study of Marlowe's Edward II, and Shakespeare's Henry VI part III, Richard III, Richard II, Julius Caesar, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra, this course explores the Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupation with history in the political and social contexts of the time.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG220Y
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or [ENGB10H ]

ENGC12H3 Individualism and Community in Classic American Literature
An exploration of the tension in American literature between two conflicting concepts of self. We will examine the influence on American literature of the opposition between an abstract, "rights-based," liberal-individualist conception of the self and a more traditional, communitarian sense of the self as determined by inherited regional, familial, and social bonds.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC13H3 Ethnic Traditions in American Literature
A survey of the literature of Native Peoples, Africans, Irish, Jews, Italians, Latinos, and East Asians in the U.S, focusing on one or two groups each term. We will look at how writers of each group register the affective costs of the transition from "old-world" communalism to "new-world" individualism.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or [ENGB08H or ENGB09H ].

ENGC14H3 Concepts in Literary History
A study of the concepts and methodologies of literary history. This introduction to the development and practice of literary history since the Renaissance will consider artistic and intellectual movements; the concepts and difficulties of periodization; the political, social, and cultural imperatives of literary canonization; and the history of English as a discipline.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC15H3 Concepts in Literary Criticism
A study of selected topics in literary criticism.
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG267H
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC16H3 The Bible and Literature I
Literary analysis of the first five books of the Bible and consideration of their profound influence on literature. This course considers both the literary nature of and the influence on literature of such narratives as the fall of Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, Abraham's binding of Isaac, and the story of Moses.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: (ENGB42H), ENG200Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC17H3 The Bible and Literature II
Literary analysis of the poems, narratives, and other literary forms in later Hebrew Scriptures (such as The Song of Solomon, Job, Jonah, Jeremiah) and the New Testament, and extended consideration of selected literary texts. Texts from English literature such as Melville's Billy Budd and Milton's Paradise Lost (selections) will be included.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: (ENGB43H), ENG200Y
Prerequisite: ENGC16H or (ENGB42H)

ENGC20H3 Victorian Poetry and Prose, 1830-1900
Poetry and non-fiction prose of the Victorian period. An examination of authors such as Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rossettis, Macaulay, Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Arnold, Morris, Pater, and Wilde and of a culture in transition: the Condition of England; the Woman Question; liberty and equality; imperialism and nationalism; theology and science; aestheticism and decadence.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG347Y & (ENG312Y)
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC21H3 The Victorian Novel to 1860
A study of major works of Victorian fiction, 1830-1860. This course focuses on the development of the realist novel in its social context. Authors studied might include Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, the Bronte sisters, Anthony Trollope and Elizabeth Gaskell.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG324Y, ENG325H
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC22H3 The Victorian Novel after 1860
A study of major works of Victorian fiction, 1860-1900. This course examines the emergence of the sensation novel, fantasy literature, and high Victorian realism. Authors studied might include Wilkie Collins, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing and Rudyard Kipling.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG324Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC26H3 Drama: Tragedy
An exploration of major dramatic tragedies in the classic and English tradition. Tragedy has been thought of as one of the earliest and most profound literary forms, having ritual and philosophical implications and inspiring theoretical treatises beginning with Aristotle's Poetics.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]
Alternative pre/co-requisites: VPDB10H & VPDB11H

ENGC27H3 Drama: Comedy
An historical exploration of comedy as a major form of dramatic expression. Theatrical comedy has been thought of as having social as well as literary dimensions (healing rifts; providing carnivalesque escape; mocking folly).
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]
Alternative prerequisites: VPDB10H & VPDB11H

ENGC29H3 Chaucer
Selections from The Canterbury Tales and other works by the greatest English writer before Shakespeare. In studying Chaucer's medieval masterpiece, students will encounter a variety of tales and tellers, with subject matter that ranges from broad and bawdy humour through subtle social satire to moral fable.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG300Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC30H3 Topics in Medieval Literature
A study of selected medieval texts by one or more authors.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG330H
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC31H3 The Romance: In Quest of the Marvelous
A study of the romance as genre. The romance as episodic tale of marvellous adventures and questing heroes has been both criticized and celebrated. This course looks at the range of a form stretching from Mallory and Spenser through Walter Scott and the Brontës to post-modern writers such as Pynchon.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC32H3 The Golden Age: Elizabethan Literature
Prose, poetry and drama from the Age of Queen Elizabeth. Texts include More's Utopia, Sidney's Defence of Poesie, Spenser's The Faerie Queene (Book II and Mutabilitie Cantos), Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost and The Merchant of Venice, and Lyly's Galatea, plus selections from such authors as Ascham, Greene, Hooker, Wyatt, Surrey and Drayton.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG302Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC33H3 Literature of Deceit and Dissent: 1603-1660
A reading of literature from the early Stuart period of political and intellectual turmoil. Core authors include Bacon, Donne, Milton, as well as drama by Webster, Jonson, Massinger and Ford. Texts might also include selections from Bacon, Essays and Novum Organum; Browne, Religio Medici; Andrewes, Sermons; poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, Quarles and Marvell.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG304Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC34H3 Early Modern Women and Literature: 1500-1700
A focused exploration of women's writing in the early modern period. This course considers the variety of texts produced by women (including closet drama, religious and secular poetry, diaries, letters, prose romance, translations, polemical tracts, and confessions), the contexts that shaped those writings, and the theoretical questions with which they engage.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB50H or [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC36H3 Literature and Culture 1660-1750
Studies in literature and literary culture during a turbulent era that was marked by extraordinary cultural ferment and literary experimentation. During this period satire and polemic flourished, Milton wrote his great epic, Behn her brilliant comedies, Swift his bitter attacks, and Pope his technically balanced but often viciously biased poetry.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG305H
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [either ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) & (ENGB02H)]

ENGC37H3 Literature and Culture 1750-1830
An exploration of literature and literary culture during the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. We will trace the development of a consciously national culture, and birth of the concepts of high, middle, and low cultures. Authors may include Johnson, Boswell, Burney, Sheridan, Yearsley, Blake, and Wordsworth.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG322Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC38H3 Novel Genres: Fiction, Journalism, News, and Autobiography 1640-1750
An examination of generic experimentation that began during the English Civil Wars and led to the novel. We will address such authors as Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe, alongside news, ballads, and scandal sheets; and look at the book trade, censorship, and the growth of the popular press.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG322Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC39H3 The Early Novel in Context, 1740-1830
A contextual study of the first fictions that contemporaries recognized as being the novel. We will examine the novel in the context of its readers; of neighbouring genres such as letters, non-fiction travel writing, conduct manuals; and of culture more generally. Authors might include Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Austen and others.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG322Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC42H3 Romanticism
A study of the Romantic Movement in European literature, 1750-1850. This course investigates the cultural and historical origins of the Romantic Movement, its complex definitions and varieties of expression, and the responses it provoked in the wider culture. Examination of representative authors such as Goethe, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, P. B. Shelley, Keats, Byron and M. Shelley will be combined with study of the philosophical and historical backgrounds of Romanticism.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG308Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC47H3 Modern Poetry
A study of poetry written roughly between the World Wars. Poets from several nations may be considered. Topics to be treated include Modernist difficulty, formal experimentation, and the politics of verse. Literary traditions from which Modernist poets drew will be discussed, as will the influence of Modernism on postmodern writing.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC49H3 The American Renaissance
Study of the works of the remarkable literary efflorescence in the U.S. running from the publication of Emerson's "Nature" in 1836 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860. Authors to be considered include Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Stowe, Douglass, and Lincoln.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG358Y
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or [ENGB08H or ENGB09H ]

ENGC50H3 Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
Developments in American fiction from the end of the 1950s to the present. A study of fiction from the period that produced James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Ann Beatty, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The course may be organized around themes or movements.
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG361H
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or [ENGB08H or ENGB09H ]

ENGC55H3 Literature and Media: The Spoken Word and the Visual Page
The ways media shape literature. Literary works have existed in oral forms (from early epics to contemporary sound poetry and literature written for radio) shaped by auditory techniques and limitations, as well as in the visual medium of print on the page and of images integrated into the text (medieval manuscripts, Blake, graphic novels).
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC56H3 Literature and Media: From Page to Screen
Written literature and film and television. What happens when literature influences film and vice versa, and when literary works are recast as visual media (including the effects of rewriting, reproduction, adaptation, serialization and sequelization).
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC58H3 Classical Myth and Literature
An analysis of the relationship between classical myth and literature. This course examines classical Greek and Roman myth in relationship to English literary works.
Pre-1900 Course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: (ENGC60H), (ENGC61H)
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC59H3 The West in American Literature
The "West" as myth and a metaphor in the shaping of American identity. This examination of written narratives and films will focus on the construction of the American West, the relationship of the "Indian" to Native writers, and contemporary efforts to de-romanticize the West.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC65H3 Studies in Travel Literature before 1830
An examination of the genre of travel literature before 1830. Focus may change yearly and will include: travel literature by women or other marginalized groups such as servants and slaves; exploration literature; literature of imperial or colonial travel; travel literature hoaxes; pilgrimage; fictional travel.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

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ENGC67H3  

ENGC68H3 Independent Studies: Creative Writing
An opportunity for students who have excelled in introductory creative writing to pursue independent study. Students should discuss their interests in advance with an appropriate faculty member. Note: Students may count no more than 1.0 full credit of independent study in creative writing towards an English program.
Exclusion: ENG391Y
Prerequisite: [ENGB60H or ENGB61H or ENGB62H ] & permission of the instructor.

ENGC69H3 Gothic Literature
A study of the Gothic tradition in literature since 1760. "Gothic" is a dark style in the arts, a language of terror, recognizable by allusions to ruined castles, graveyards, sublime landscapes, religious superstition, and plots involving imprisonment and torture, nightmares of the unconscious mind, and monstrous deformities of the human body.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC70H3 The Immigrant Experience to 1980
An examination of twentieth-century literature, especially fiction, written out of the experience of people who leave one society to come to another already made by others. We will compare the literatures of several ethnic communities in at least three nations, the United States, Britain, and Canada.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC71H3 The Immigrant Experience in Literature since 1980
A continuation of ENGC70H , focusing on texts written since 1980.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] & ENGC70H

ENGC72H3 Contemporary Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa
A study of fiction, drama, and poetry from English-speaking Africa. The course will examine the relation of English-language writing to indigenous languages, to orality, and to audience, as well as the issues of creating art in a world of suffering and of de-colonizing the narrative of history.
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG253Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC74H3 Comedy, Satire, and Humour, 1660-1830
A study of literary works meant to provoke laughter, ridicule, or amusement. We will examine works emerging from a culture that had yet to equate forms that induced laughter with levity and that therefore seriously played in the no man's land between pain and horror and pleasure and delight.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC76H3 The Body in Modernity: Theories and Representations
An interdisciplinary course about the body in art, film, photography, narrative and popular culture. How bodies are written or visualized as "feminine" or "masculine", as heroic, as representing normality or perversity, beauty or monstrosity, legitimacy or illegitimacy, nature or culture. Same as VPAC47H .
Limited enrolment: 45
Exclusion: VPAC47H , (VPHC47H)
Corequisite: Two full credits at the B level or above from ENG, WST, VPA, VPH, and/or VPS, or permission of the instructor.

ENGC77H3 The Body in Contemporary Culture: Theories and Representations
A course focusing on the experience of the body in the public spaces of the modern city and in cyberspace. Of special interest will be the viewpoints of artists, writers, and filmmakers who explore how the "other" is constructed in terms of class, culture, and ethnicity. Same as VPAC48H .
Exclusion: VPAC48H , (VPHC48H)
Corequisite: Two full credits at the B level or above from ENG, WST, VPA, VPH, and/or VPS, or permission of the instructor.

ENGC78H3 Dystopian Visions in Fiction and Film
Negative utopias and post-apocalyptic worlds. The course will draw from novels such as 1984, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange, and Oryx and Crake, and films such as Metropolis, Mad Max, Brazil, and The Matrix. Why do we find stories about the world gone wrong so compelling?
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC80H3 Modernity: Modernism and Literature 1900-1950
The aesthetic movements (Dadaism, Futurism, Vorticism, surrealism) that gave rise to modernity and the modernist literary movements that followed.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC81H3 Modernity II: Post-modernism and Other Developments in Literature 1950 to the Present
Reactions to modernity and modernism since 1950. This course investigates the various ways writers of the later twentieth century began to understand "reality" and how that shaped their writing. We will look at how post-colonialism, post-structuralism, multiculturalism, and feminism emerged in this era to contest how the "centre" constructed the "margin".
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC82H3 Cinema Studies: Themes and Theories
A variable theme course that will feature different theoretical approaches to Cinema: feminist, Marxist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, and semiotic. Thematic clusters include "Madness in Cinema", and "Films on Films".
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC83H3 The Imperial Imaginary in Cinema
An exploration of how the representation of travel, adventure, conflict, and formation of identity in the "adventure film" of Western culture promotes, preserves and sustains mythologies of "whiteness" and (European) "masculinity" as the focal point of knowledge, desire and power in an idealized fantasy of Western culture. From the image of King Kong gripping the Empire State Building, to the loyal but doomed Gunga Din, to Harrison Ford spying on "savage" rituals in the Temple of Doom, the construct of the "white" explorer or soldier has depended on a counter-image: the exotic, inscrutable, treacherous, unpredictable native or "other".
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC85H3 I/Eye Witness: Ethics and the Image
Ethics and image in photography and cinema from the twentieth century to now.
Witnessing is one intersection of the political and the personal, the individual and the ethical. We will be concerned with issues stemming from the simultaneous rise of photography and cinema with troubling events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGD01H3 History in the New World
An introduction to post-colonial theory that looks at the problem of narrating the past when that past includes conquest, slavery, and colonization. We will look at works of historiography, theory, fiction, and epic poetry, primarily from Latin America and the Caribbean, to explore the problem of telling the history of the Americas.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD03H3 Topics in Contemporary Literary Theory
A study of selected topics in recent literary theory.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: ENGC15H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD04H3 Gulliver's Texts and Contexts
An examination of Swift's Gulliver's Travels (originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World) through material Swift drew from (such as More's Utopia and Montaigne's essay on cannibals), movements the work responded to (such as the New Science, medieval and Early Modern travel narratives, stories of monsters, ideas and theories about satire), and the responses the text provoked (such as children's versions, Nazi and other racist uses of the problematic Voyage 4, and film versions).
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD06H3 Poetry and Christianity
An exploration of Christian and anti-Christian poetry in English from the Bible to the present, with an emphasis on the themes of faith and doubt, love and hate, and the erotic. Writers studied might include Donne, Herbert, Milton, Cowper, the Rossettis, Tennyson, Hopkins, Eliot, and Stevie Smith.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD07H3 Studies in Postmodern Poetry
The study of a poet or poets writing in English after 1950. Topics may include the use and abuse of tradition, the art and politics of form, the transformations of an oeuvre, and the relationship of poetry to the individual person and to the culture at large.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD08H3 South African Literature
A study of South African literature. In this course we will look at fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry produced in South Africa in the last fifty years.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD11H3 Salman Rushdie
A study of four or five of Rushdie's novels, including Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, and Shalimar the Clown. The course will also examine Rushdie's non-fiction essays and what has become known as "The Satanic Verses Affair".
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD12H3 Studies in Life Writing
A detailed study of some aspect or aspects of life-writing. Topics may include life-writing and fiction, theory, criticism, self, and/or gender.
Can count as a pre-1900 course depending on the topic.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD14H3 Topics in Renaissance Literature
An intensive study of an author, genre, work, issue or aspect of Early Modern literature and culture.
Pre-1900 Course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD15H3 Problems in Early Shakespeare
An examination of five or six Shakespeare plays from the period 1590-1596.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD16H3 Problems in Late Shakespeare
An examination of problems textual and editorial, as well as aesthetic and dramatic, in the later works of Shakespeare.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD17H3 Shakespeare's Contemporaries
A selection of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD18H3 Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1830)
Topics in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. Topics vary from year to year and might include a study of one or more authors, or the study of a specific literary or theatrical phenomenon.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD30H3 Studies in Medieval Literature
Topics in the literature and culture of the medieval period. Topics vary from year to year and might include a study of one or more authors.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD40H3 Confessional Poetry
The emergence of the confessional voice in American and British poetry. Authors emphasized will be Robert Lowell, Ann Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD41H3 T.S. Eliot
The poems, plays, and essays of T.S. Eliot, one of the founders of literary modernism.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD42H3 James Joyce
A study of Joyce's work and accomplishments. Texts include Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD43H3 Studies in Romanticism, 1750-1850
Topics in the literature and culture of the Romantic movement. Topics vary from year to year and may include Romantic nationalism, the Romantic novel, the British 1790s, or American or Canadian Romanticism.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: ENGC42H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD52H3 Cinema: The Auteur Theory
An exploration of the genesis of auteur theory.
By focusing on a particular director such as Jane Campion, Kubrick, John Ford, Cronenberg, Chaplin, Egoyan, Bergman, Godard, Kurosawa, Sembene, or Bertolucci, we will trace the extent to which a director's vision can be traced through their body of work.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: INI374H, INI375H
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD57H3 Topics in a Major Canadian Writer I
Advanced study of a single Canadian writer such as Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, and Alice Munro.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: (ENGD51H), (ENGD88H)
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD58H3 Topics in a Major Canadian Writer II
Advanced study of a single Canadian writer such as Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, and Alice Munro.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: (ENGD51H), (ENGD88H)
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD59H3 Emerson and the Emersonian Tradition in American Poetry
A reading of the "central" tradition of American poetry as originating in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Major poems by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, A.R. Ammons, and John Ashbery will be read in relation to Emerson's distinctive formulation of transatlantic currents of Romanticism.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: [ENGB04H3 & [ENGB08H3 or ENGB09H3 ]] & 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD60H3 The Problem of a Liberal Culture: Emerson and Nineteenth-Century Cultural Prophets
A study of the nineteenth-century construction of theories of identity and culture. We will examine the major works of Emerson along with selected works of Tocqueville, Mill, Arnold, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Nietzsche as efforts to construct a post-enlightenment, post-revolutionary, trans-Atlantic substitute for the feudal-aristocratic Christian culture of the ancien regime.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: ENGC12H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD61H3 James Baldwin, the African-American Experience, and the Liberal Imagination
A study of the fiction, drama, and essays of James Baldwin and their cultural context.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: ENGC12H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD62H3 Power and Perception: Imperialism, Colonialism, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Fiction
An exploration of multicultural perspectives on issues of power, perception, and identity as revealed in literary treatments of imperialism and colonialism in the twentieth century.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD63H3 Rap Poetics
An intensive study of form and rhetoric in rap lyrics. We will consider the quarter-century recorded history of this sub-set of African-American poetry in rough chronological order. We will also look for the pre-history of rap in such traditions as minstrelsy, blues, political speech, comic monologues, and lyric poetry proper.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD65H3 Popular American Lyric
A study of two centuries' worth of the favourite poems and songs of the American people, from the Fireside Poets to Rap music. Authors to be studied might include Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Frost, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Bing Crosby, Bob Dylan, and twenty years of Rap.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD67H3 Satire
An investigation of the literatures and theories of the unthinkable, the reformist, the iconoclastic, and the provocative. Satire can be conservative or subversive, corrective or anarchic. This course will address a range of satire and its theories. Writers may range from Juvenal, Horace, Lucian, Erasmus, Donne, Jonson, Rochester, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gay, Haywood, and Behn to Pynchon, Nabokov and Atwood.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD68H3 Contemporary Literature by Muslims
An examination of the twentieth-century flowering of secular literature, in particular fiction and poetry, by writers of Muslim background around the world. We will address such themes as the tension between religion and the secular forms of the novel and the need to write the Muslim experience into the modern world.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level English courses

ENGD69H3 Knowing the Other: Ethics and Canadian Literature
A study of the connections among literature, literary theory, politics and moral philosophy. In this course, we will turn to Canadian writers to examine their contribution and responses to ongoing ethical debates concerning what it means to engage with the Other, the native, the land, the animal, and the transhuman.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level English courses

ENGD76H3 Travel and Travellers in Literature
A study of fictional, semi-fictional, and non-fictional accounts of travel. Reading works by such writers as Homer, Lucian, Margery Kempe, Sir John Mandeville, Raleigh, Nashe, Lady Montagu, Swift, and John Bartram, we will study travel accounts ranging through the forced transportation of slaves, pilgrimage, exploration, and tourism.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD78H3 The Open Road in North American Narrative
An investigation of the myth of the open road in the North American imagination. From Huckleberry Finn to recent novels, non-fiction accounts, and films, stories about travelling the open road have helped organize the larger American narrative.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD80H3 Women and Canadian Writing
A study of the remarkable contribution of women writers to the development of Canadian writing. Drawing from a variety of authors and genres (including novels, essays, poems, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and travel writing), this course will look at topics in women and Canadian literature in the context of theoretical questions about women's writing.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD81H3 Myth and Canadian Fiction
An examination of Canadian writing in the context provided by myth.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: (ENGC62H)
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD84H3 Canadian Writing for the New Century
An analysis of features of Canadian writing at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. This course will consider such topics as changing themes and sensibilities, canonical challenges, and millennial and apocalyptic themes associated with the end of the twentieth century.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD85H3 The Image of the Home in North American Fiction
An investigation of home as organizing concept and thematic symbol in Canadian and American writing. This course will consider how focusing on home (one of the universal concepts around which narratives get organized) influences the way we read, especially within the context of culture and gender.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD87H3 Between Traditions and Freedoms: Writing by Canadians of Asian Descent
A study of lines of influence on writing by Canadians of Asian descent.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD89H3 Studies in the Victorian Period
Topics vary from year to year and might include Victorian children's literature; city and country in Victorian literature; science and nature in Victorian writing; aestheticism and decadence; or Tennyson and Browning.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: ENG443Y
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD91H3 Avant-Garde Cinema
An exploration of Avant-Garde cinema from the earliest experiments of German Expressionism and Surrealism to our own time. The emphasis will be on cinema as an art form aware of its own uniqueness, and determined to discover new ways to exploit the full potential of the "cinematic".
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: INI322Y
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD92H3 The Film Musical
An analysis of the Hollywood musical. We will focus on how genres are defined and what they tell us about meaning and cultural norms. How strict are genre rules and conventions -- and what happens when we stretch them? How do genres convey cultural assumptions about race, gender, class, and sexuality?
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: Two C-level courses in English

ENGD93H3 Cinema and Spectatorship
An introduction to films, film theory debates, and critics that address the role of the spectator. What spectators are assumed or constructed by the movies. How does a film's structure influence our understanding of what we see? How do movie stars affect us? How has technology changed spectatorship?
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: INI214Y
Prerequisite: Two C-level courses in English

ENGD94H3 Stranger Than Fiction: The Documentary Film
The study of films from major movements in the documentary tradition, including ethnography, cinema vérité, social documentary, the video diary, and "reality television". The course will examine the tensions between reality and representation, art and politics, technology and narrative, film and audience.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: INI325Y
Prerequisite: 2 courses at the C-level in English

ENGD96H3 Narrative and Interactivity
A study of how narratives in various media interact with the reader. We will examine such questions as the degree to which reader-response can be termed interactivity; how readers shape the outcome of narratives; and how narratives can be deformed by interactivity and still retain coherence and consistency.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD97H3  

ENGD99H3 Independent Studies in Literature
An opportunity for students to pursue one-term projects of independent literary study under the supervision of a member of the English faculty. Students should discuss their interests in this opportunity with appropriate faculty and the Discipline Representative or Supervisor of Studies one term in advance of the proposed course. These courses are only open to students with a strong record who are completing the last 5 courses of their degree and who have completed 2 full credits in C-level English. This course is contingent on acceptance by a faculty supervisor and the approval of the English group. Depending on subject area, this course can be counted towards the pre-1900 requirement. Note: Students may count no more than 1.0 full credit of ENGD97H , ENGD98Y and ENGD99H toward an English program.
Prerequisite: 2.0 full credits in English at the C-level.

ENGD98Y3 Senior Essay
A scholarly project chosen by the student and supervised by a faculty member. Students should discuss their proposals with appropriate faculty and the Discipline Representative or Supervisor of Studies one term in advance of the proposed course. This course is only open to students with a strong record who are completing the last 5 credits of their degree and who have completed 2 full credits in C-level English. This course is contingent on acceptance by a faculty supervisor and approval of the English group. Depending on subject area, this course can be counted towards the pre-1900 requirement. Note: Students may count no more than 1.0 full credit of ENGD97H , ENGD98Y and ENGD99H towards an English program.
Exclusion: ENG490Y
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

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