A study of selected comic and romance episodes from The Canterbury Tales, typically including The General Prologue, The Knight's Tale, The Miller's...
A study of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, selections from The Canterbury Tales and the minor poems. Exclusions EN352*.
An exploration of writers and genres representative of the Middle Ages. Genres might include romance, allegory, visionary works and dramas; writers...
A study of a selection of 16th-century poetry, drama and prose, together with other art forms and cultural discourses that contributed to early modern...
The course considers a range of plays by playwrights other than Shakespeare. Plays to be studied will vary from year to year. Exclusions...
The course will focus on 17th-century literary texts which consider the interrelations of love, sex, and desire; class and gender relations;...
Critical study of significant literary interventions in the cultural formation of Victorian England (1830-1860). In particular we examine the...
Critical study of change and resistance in later 19th-century English literature (1860-1900), with some emphasis on writings involved in symptomatic...
This course studies the shift in aims, structures and techniques that revolutionized literary writing in the English-speaking world from roughly 1950...
This course places emphasis on "contemporary writing," the writing of 1980 to today. Particular attention will be given to the increasing emphasis on...
An exploration of various theories of language, style, discourse and/or rhetoric. Topics studied may include the cultural history of the English...
Consult the Department of English for current offerings. Prerequisites Registration in Year 4 of Honours English or Combined Honours English,...
A study of selected texts which interrogate the representations, definitions and boundaries of femininity, masculinity and/or queer subjectivities. Of...
An exploration of contemporary genre theory and generic practices. Topics may vary among the following: historical literary genres, modern literary...
An examination of important pieces from the oeuvre of a major author. Topics may include: the career and development of the author; the ways genre,...
An exploration of a significant literary movement, rise of an intellectual tradition, or response of a group of writers to a specific historical...
A study of the ways in which literary texts develop from, or respond to, particular literary, cultural, aesthetic, political, historical and/or social...
An exploration and analysis of cultural signifying practices with respect to various textual forms including, but not limited to, literary texts,...
A study of one or more significant theoretical schools. Examples may include psychoanalysis, deconstruction, gender theory, Marxism, postcolonial and...
Individual study on a specialized topic, under the supervision of a faculty member. Prerequisites Registration status: Year 4 Honours English...