A study of selected forms of poetry such as the sonnet, lyric, ode, elegy, song, rap, ballad, monologue, and free verse.

203 Tragic Drama F MWF 1:30 - 2:20 3870 Dr. Juliette Merritt

A study of the main patterns of tragedy from its origins to the 20th century.

205 Studies in Stylistics W MWF 1:30 - 2:20 3601 Dr. J. Weldon

“Stylistics” is an approach to literary texts through the lens of linguistics. With selected literary texts (poetry and

prose) as the focus of the course, students explore basic linguistic topics such as sentence formation, word choice,

the relation between language and artistic function, the link between language and cognitive responses or

interpretations, and the social dimensions of language. This introductory course helps students describe what a

specific text achieves, approach the language of a text as a formal structure as well as an act of communication within

larger frameworks (society, tradition), and explain the relationship between linguistic choices and interpretations.

No previous knowledge of linguistics is required.

207 Comic Drama W MWF 1:30 - 2:20 3602 Dr. Andrew Bretz

A study of the main patterns of comedy from its origins to the 20th century.

209j The African Child F TR 2:30 - 3:50 4217 Dr. M. Hron

This course, especially suited for those considering Teacher’s College, explores the figure of the African child.

We will survey Western representations of the African child, from 18th century discourses to present-day charity

appeals (e.g., Kony 2012 video). More importantly, delving into African texts, we will investigate such varied

issues as children in African myths, neo/colonial education, gender and ethnicity, child soldiers, child slaves,

AIDS orphans, immigrant children, sentimentalism and humor etc. Summer Reading Suggestions: Adichie’s

Purple Hibiscus, Oyeyemi’s Icarus Girl, Iweala’s Beasts of No Nations. Students considering Teacher’s College

should read Stratton’s Chanda’s Secrets or Ellis’ Heaven Shop.

NOTE: This course counts in Category 3 of the Honours and Combined Honours English Programs.

EN 209m Literature and Culture in the Age of Terrorism F T 7:00pm - 9:50 pm Dr. Don Moore

A study of literary and cultural texts that articulate a variety of perspectives on what it means to live in an age of terrorism. Texts for study might include graphic novels such as Jerusalem (Delisle), Habibi (Craig Thompson), Persepolis (Satrapi), V for Vendetta (Moore), In the Shadow of No Towers (Spiegelman), Palestine (Sacco), or Aaron and Ahmed (Cantor & Ramberger), as well as films such as The Battle of Algiers (1966), Team America (2004), Munich (2005), Waltz with Bashir (2008), or United 93 (2006). Novels might include Sahar Kalifeh’s Wild Thorns, DeLillo’s Mao II, Ian McKewen’s Saturday or Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. Theoretical works might include Jean Baudrillard’s “The Spirit of Terrorism,” Jacques Derrida’s “Interview on Philosophy and Terror,” Noam Chomsky’s “International Terrorism: Image and Reality” or Slavoj Žižek’s “Welcome to the Desert of the Real.”

NOTE: this course counts in Category 3.

EN 209K Writing for Young Readers: Theory and Practice W R2:30-4:20 Dr. Leslie O'Dell

In this course we will explore the challenges facing writers creating stories for young readers. Categories for examination will include picture books and poetry for pre-schoolers, stories and poetry for beginning readers, drama for young audiences and performers, and genre fiction for young readers. We will read and analyze exemplars of these categories of writing within the context of recent scholarship on literature for young readers. Weekly writing challenges will invite students to explore the craft required for this type of writing. Students can select from a variety of formal assignments in order to shape their work in this course according to personal interests. NOTE: this course counts in category 4.

Tut 1 W 2:30-3:20

Tut 2 W 2:30-3:20

Tut 3 W 3:30-4:20

Tut 4 W 3:30-4:20

Tut 5 W 4:20-5:20

211 Postcolonial Literatures F MW 2:30 - 3:50 3871 Michele Kramer

In signalling a new historical era, the term “post-colonial” raises a set of inter-related questions: To what extent does

the legacy of colonialism continue to shape our lives today? Is the “post” in “post-colonial” an accurate signifier of

a new world order? What does “post-colonial” experience imply for different geo-political regions? In our exploration

of contemporary literatures from the African continent, the Caribbean, South Asia and Canada, we will consider the

ways in which post-colonial writers interrogate colonial history and the continuing legacies and structures of

imperialism, while also foregrounding these works’ specific historical and cultural contexts. We will also consider

the post-colonial writer’s cross-referential framework as a simultaneously productive and uneasy tension between

diverse cultural and literary traditions. Readings will include short fiction, novels and plays.

218 Contemporary American Literature W MWF 10:30 - 11:20 1920 Dr. Cindy McMann

This course will introduce students to major developments in American Literature during the "postwar period"

(1945-present). Students will be expected to read, think about, and write essays on three genres of American

literature — drama, poetry and fiction. Topics to be covered will include the Cold War, High Modernism,

Postmodernism, Feminism and ethnic writing. Since the course covers a range of authors students will be

encouraged to think about American literature during the period not just in terms of overarching concerns, but to

acknowledge the aesthetic variety of the contemporary period, not all of which fits neatly into specific scholarly

categories.

226 Women in Fiction F W 7:00 - 9:50 3877 Dr. Juliette Merritt

The images of women in a selection of fiction by women (and some men) writers in the past 200 years, focusing

primarily on the changing attitudes to women and the corresponding development of new techniques of

presentation.

231 Arthurian Traditions F MW 4:00 - 5:20 2891 Dr. Nirmal Dass

This course examines selected Arthurian narratives, myths, and traditions within a variety of contexts: textual,

generic, national, cultural, and technological. Students will examine the medieval origins and modern adaptations

of Arthurian legends as well as the key figures of these stories, such as King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Guinevere, Sir

Gawain and Morgan La Fee. Though this course concentrates mainly on texts, it may also include examinations of

Arthurian material within films, and multi-media environments such as internet websites and video games. (No prior

knowledge of medieval literature or computer technologies is necessary.)

233 Shakespeare: Comedies & Romances W TR 11:30 - 12:50 3591 Dr. V. Comensoli

A study of selected comedies and dramatic romances by William Shakespeare. The focus is on the plays’generic

structures and their relation to Early Modern theatrical, discursive, and cultural representations of gender as a

category of identity and performance. Classes will involve a combination of lectures, class discussion, and group

work. When possible, we will view and discuss selected scenes from video or film adaptations of the plays.

234 Shakespeare: Histories & Tragedies F TR 11:30 - 12:50 3872 Dr. A. Russell

This course explores a selection of Shakespeare’s histories and tragedies, with a focus on their theatrical and cultural

contexts. These plays represent early modern perspectives on gender, race, and class in ways that may at times seem

alien to us, yet also familiar and recognizable. As we analyze Shakespeare’s narrative and theatrical strategies, we

will consider how the generic terms “tragedy” and “history” have been used to frame responses to the plays. We will

supplement our focus on the play texts by considering selected filmed performances.

236 Shakespeare and Film F MWF 9:30 - 10:20 3878 Dr. L. O’Dell

In this course we will explore a variety of contemporary cinematic versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Adaptations by

Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Roman Polansky, Julie Taymor, Franco Zeffirelli, or Richard

Loncraine and others will provide a focus for class discussions and analysis.

238 Tolkien and Fantasy F W 4:30 - 6:20 4208 Dr. J. Weldon

This course looks at the major works of J.R.R. Tolkien, including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and selected

writings. Tolkien has emerged as one of the most popular writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but he

is increasingly seen as one of the greatest of recent British writers. Tolkien’s invented mythology and its function

in his works will be a central focus in the course as well in his life-long interest in fairy stories. Typical themes

include the problems of fantasy and the uses of tradition, the history and its relation to the present and cultural pasts,

the inseparability of creation and language, the themes of death and immortality, and the importance of fairy stories

for humanity.

Tut 1 R 1:30 - 2:20 4209

Tut 2 R 1:30 - 2:20 4210

Tut 3 R 2:30 - 3:20 4211

Tut 4 R 2:30 - 3:20 4212

Tut 5 R 3:30 - 4:20 4213

Tut 6 R 3:30 - 4:20 4214

Tut 7 R 4:30 - 5:20 4215

Tut 8 R 5:30 - 6:20 4216

Tut 9 R 6:30-7:20 4388

263 Canadian Fiction Before 1980 W TR 8:30 - 9:50 2671 Dr. Cindy McMann

A survey of Canadian literature from the colonial period to the late modernist period (c. 1840-1979). The course

explores the beginnings of a national literature in Canada through representative literary works that foreground the

social and historical impact of frontierism, settlement, Confederation, modernism and the rise of Trudeau-era

nationalism. Works may include novels, short stories, life writing and literary criticism.

265 American Literature to 1900 F MWF 11:30 - 12:20 2893 Dr. L. Shakinovsky

A study of nineteenth-century American literature including fiction, poetry, and a few non-fictional prose texts.

Consideration is given to the historical and social context in which texts drawn from a range of political and generic

possibilities were produced. Authors studied include Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Dickinson, Douglass, and Jacobs.

266 American Lit. of the Early 20th Century

W MW 2:30 - 3:50 2672 Dr. L. Shakinovsky

A survey of selected works (fiction, poetry, and essays) by American authors of the first half of the twentieth century.

The course explores disparate literary movements of the period, such as realism, modernism, and the Harlem

Renaissance, through the writings of figures such as T.S. Eliot, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, and Langston

Hughes.

267A Contemporary Canadian Fiction F MWF 10:30 - 11:20 2448 Dr. E. Jewinski

A survey of Canadian fiction written in English from 1980 to the present. The course explores the concept of a

national literature in Canada since the publishing boom of the 1980s, with an emphasis on the social shifts presented

by feminist, postcolonial and transnational literary works. Texts will include novels and short stories by authors such

as Michael Ondaatje, Thomas King, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, among others.

267B Contemporary Canadian Fiction W MWF 8:30 - 9:20 2678 Michele Kramer

A survey of Canadian fiction written in English from 1980 to the present. The course explores the concept of a

national literature in Canada since the publishing boom of the 1980s, with an emphasis on the social shifts presented

by feminist, postcolonial and transnational literary works. Texts will include novels and short stories by authors such

as Michael Ondaatje, Thomas King, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, among others.

268 Canadian Poetry in English W MWF 12:30 - 1:20 3592 Dr. E. Jewinski

Canadian life and imagination explored through the study of significant works.

EN 281 Cyborg Fiction W TR8:30-9:50 Dr. Andrea Austin

This course will introduce students to the vibrant and still emerging cyberpunk movement in literature and film. The cyborg tends to unsettle all categories of difference, moving beyond the "meat/machine meld" to threaten additional hierarchies, including those of race, class, and gender.  Students will explore central literary and cinematic texts of the cyberpunk movement, including foundational works by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Philip K. Dick, and Ridley Scott.  Students will also have the opportunity to consider the current direction of cyberpunk fiction in more recent texts, including the phenomenally successful Matrix series and the movement of the cyborg into mainstream children's fare, as in Disney's Treasure Planet.  Additionally, students will investigate a number of theoretical concepts central to cyberculture, including Baudrillard on the simulacrum, Benjamin and the panopticon, and Benedikt on the architecture of lightness. NOTE: this course counts in Category 4.

292 Early Romantic Literature W TR 1:00 - 2:20 3593 Dr. M. Poetzsch

The Romantic Age is generally understood as spanning the years 1780-1840, and this course will consider the

diverse poetry and prose produced in the first half of this period by writers such as Charlotte Smith, William

Blake, William Godwin, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor

Coleridge, Robert Bage, John Thelwall and others. Set against the backdrop of the American and French

Revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars, the writings of the early Romantics explore such issues as natural rights

and gender roles, humanitarianism and idealism, the individual and exotic otherness, industrial reform and the

return to nature. Central to each of these debates is a concern with the writer's dual role as a mediator of sociocultural

events and a social being, one who acts (or strives to act) in the world through words. Wordsworth's

conception of the poet as the "rock of defense for human nature" will be scrutinized throughout the course both

for what it suggests about the Romantic faith in poetic imagination and what it implies about the writer's

ineluctable distance from the human and the natural.

293 Later Romantic Literature F TR 10:00 - 11:20 3873 Dr. Bruce Wyse

A survey of the literature of the later Romantic Period (c.1810-1840). The course explores works by canonical and

non-canonical writers in a variety of genres and styles: sonnets, odes, verse dramas, lyric poetry, manifestos, novels,

confessional non-fiction, literary criticism and theory, letters, journals, etc.

296 Prose Narrative in the Romantic Period Dr. Bruce Wyse W TR 2:30 - 3:50 3594

This course will select works from the considerable range of prose narratives in the Romantic period: from political

novels to gothic tales of terror, from the novel of manners to the moral tale, and from autobiography and travel writing

to history. Authors to be studies may include Austen, De Quincey, Edgeworth, Lewis, Maturin, and the Shelleys,

among others.

298 British Literature 1900-1920 F TR 8:30 - 9:50 1299 Dr. Sylvia Bryce-Wunder

A study of poetry, fiction, drama and essays from the turn-of-the-century to just after the First World War. Works

by authors such as Hardy, Mew, Yeats, Conrad, Forster, Galsworthy, Shaw, Lawrence, Mansfield and Wilfred Owen

are read in the context of the social, technological, cultural and political changes of the Edwardian era and the

devastating impact of the war in the years which followed.

299 British Literature, 1920-1939 W MWF 1:30-2:20 4003 Dr. Sylvia Bryce-Wunder

A study of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays published in the twenties and thirties, including significant departures

in literary form in works by authors such as Joyce, Eliot, Woolf, Sitwell, Yeats, Huxley, Orwell, and Auden. The

course will focus on modernism as well as other major tendencies in the social, intellectual and political life of these

decades. Some attention will be given to the development of modern criticism and to the relation between literature

and the other arts.