(Course times may change. Consult the UTSC on-line timetable for the most accurate information: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~registrar/scheduling/timetable)
A study of literature and film against the backdrop of the Twentieth Century,
from 1895 to the onset of World War II. What was the affect of Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche,
Freud de-centering concepts of humanity? Matthew Arnold put it this way: "I wander between
two worlds. One dead, the other powerless to be born." Auden announced the coming of
"the Age of Anxiety". Eliot’s defining 1922 poem is called "The Wasteland". And yet the
Twentieth Century and the Twenty-first are still seen as participating in the Enlightenment
project, a project devoted to constant announcements of progress, perpetual offerings of
unprecedented satisfaction, and aggressively marketed examples of innovation. We will begin
in the 1890s, a time that saw the invention of cinema as well as, in the space of ten years,
the publication of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, Heart of Darkness
and Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. All of these works, separately and together, tell of a deep
unease at the heart of what has come to be known as "modernity". Moving forward through works by
James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, we will look at the cultural trauma of World War I. An emphasis on
film and its unique relationship to the Twentieth Century will be fostered by lectures on Charlie
Chaplin's Modern Times and the way it showcases rising concerns that modernity has profound, often
hidden costs at the personal level, even as it is made to appear more and more astonishing and
progressive on the global level.
Wednesday, 9:00am-11:00am, IC130
Instructor: D. Flynn
Why does narrative matter? Is the ability to tell stories an essential
part of being human? Are stories necessary for remembering the past and imagining
the future? How do we use stories to create a sense of identity and to interact with
others? Is story-making a joint activity, a collaborative skill? What is the "storyworld"
we enter when we read a novel or short story, or watch a film, and how do such storyworlds
relate to the "world" we are in? This course will explore such fundamental questions about
narrative, while developing the vocabulary and the critical skills for analysing and discussing
narrative. We will explore concepts like story and plot, voice and focalization; narrators and
narratees, time and space, beginnings and endings. Readings will be drawn from a variety of
narrative forms, including short stories, novels, fairy tales, graphic novels, and film. A course
reader will provide some examples of narrative theory. Pre- or co-requisite for ENGB05. Note:
In the Fall and Winter terms, this course requires students to enroll in a one-hour tutorial;
please consult the on-line timetable for the schedule.
Thursday, 11:00am-1:00pm, SW319
Instructor: Dr. S. Nikkila
TUT 01: Wednesday, 3:00pm-4:00pm, HW402
TUT 02: Wednesday, 4:00pm-5:00pm, HW402
TUT 03: Wednesday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, AC332
TUT 04: Wednesday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, MW223
TUT 05: Wednesday, 2:00pm-3:00pm, MW223
TUT 06:
Wednesday, 2:00pm-3:00pm, MW262
The title "Critical Thinking About Poetry" says much about what we hope to accomplish in this
course. We are going to amass a range of critical tools that will help us to read poetry deeply
and with pleasure. Along the way we will learn much about the history of poetry written in English.
We will see that poetry is not some alien discourse from outer space, but is written by and for human
people right here on earth. We will also see how the best poems are designed with the utmost care and
how such well-crafted objects offer many compelling truths and kinds of beauty. Most of the great poets
in English will be considered. Success in this course is contingent on coming to class and doing the
reading with care. Pre- or co-requisite for ENGB05. Note: This course requires students to enroll in a
one-hour tutorial; please consult the on-line timetable for the schedule.
Tuesday, 1:00pm-3:00pm, SW309
Instructor: Prof. N. ten Kortenaar
TUT 01: Tuesday, 3:00pm-4:00pm, HW402
TUT 02: Tuesday, 3:00pm-4:00pm, HW408
TUT 03: Tuesday, 4:00pm-5:00pm, HW402
TUT 04: Tuesday, 4:00pm-5:00pm, HW408
TUT 05: Tuesday, 5:00pm-6:00pm, HW402
TUT 06:
Tuesday, 5:00pm-6:00pm, HW408
Congratulations on joining this course and embarking on an productive and self-gratifying journey! B05 teaches essay writing skills that are specific to the analysis of literature, both poetry and fiction, at a university level, and is taught through intensive workshops. This is not a grammar course; students are expected to enter it with solid English literacy skills. Throughout the term, students will be introduced to library research techniques, bibliographies, and MLA-style citation guidelines. In addition, they will be expected to produce short papers and develop a research-based longer assignment. Ultimately, English B05 is about celebrating students fostering their own voices as distinct from the critics they investigate and should consequently gain more confidence in their own readings of both primary and secondary sources. In order to pass this class, a strict attendance policy is into place. ENGB05 must be taken at the same time as ENGB03 or ENGB04.
LEC 01: Monday and Wednesday, 9:00am-10:30am, BV361
LEC 02: Monday and Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm, BV361
LEC 03: Monday and Wednesday, 12:00pm-1:30pm, BV361
LEC 04: Monday and Wednesday, 1:30pm-3:00pm, BV361
LEC 05: Monday and Wednesday, 3:00pm-4:30pm, BV361
A study of major plays and playwrights of the twentieth century. This international survey might include turn-of-the-century works by Wilde or Shaw; mid-century drama by Beckett, O'Neill, Albee, or Miller; and later twentieth-century plays by Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Caryl Churchill, Peter Shaffer, August Wilson, Tomson Highway, David Hwang, or Athol Fugard.
Monday, 3:00pm-4:30pm, HW215
Instructor: Prof. K. Vernon
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.
Tuesday and Thursday, 12:00pm-1:30pm, SW143An analysis of the relationship between classical myth and literature. Through English texts that retell classical myths , the course familiarizes students with classical mythology, and explores how each of these texts is simultaneously an individual work of art as well as a strand that makes up the fabric of a given myth.
Monday and Wednesday, 1:00pm-2:30pm, SW319
Instructor: Dr. L. Wey
An introduction to the poetry and plays of William Shakespeare, this course situates his works in the literary, social and political contexts of early modern England. The main emphasis will be on close readings of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays, to be supplemented by classical, medieval, and renaissance prose and poetry upon which Shakespeare drew.
Required Readings: The Norton Shakespeare, Ed. by Stephen Greenblatt. London & New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.
Grade Distribution: In class journals & participation (5%); Response Exercises (15%); Mid-semester in-class test (40%); Final Exam (40%).
Monday and Wednesday, 11:30pm-1:00pm, SW143
Instructor: Dr. M. Rubright
An introduction to the poetry and non-fiction prose of the Victorian period, 1837-1901. Representative authors will be studied in the context of a culture in transition, in which questions about democracy, the rights of women, national identity, imperialism, science and religion, and the place of the arts in everyday life were prominent.
Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30pm-3:00pm, SW143
Instructor: Dr. S. Nikkila
An examination of the development of a tradition of women's writing. This course explores the legacy and impact of writers such as Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, and Margaret Fuller, and considers how writing by women has challenged and continues to transform the English literary canon.
Monday and Wednesday, 10:00am-11:30am, SW143
This course serves as an introduction to the writing of poetry through lively discussions, experiential exercises, and engaging workshop sessions. Whether you are a burgeoning bard, a master metrist, or a student who simply wants “to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,” this course will give you the opportunity to explore the invigorating, perplexing, and sustaining relationship between words and the world, by introducing you to a wide-range of writing strategies, poetry schools, and publishing opportunities. Admission by portfolio. Your portfolio must be left with the English departmental assistant in HW525C no later than the first Tuesday of August. Your portfolio will contain a selected sample (5-10 pp.) of your strongest writing; also, it must include poetry and may include fiction. Do not submit originals.
Tuesday, 5:00pm-7:00pm, AA206
Instructor: Mr. D. Tysdal
An investigation of film genres such as romance, gothic, and science fiction from 1895 to the present alongside examples of twentieth-century prose and poetry. We will look at the way cinema developed and created new mythologies that helped people organize the experience of modern life.
Monday, 7:00pm-9:00pm, SW319 (Screening: 2:00pm-5:00pm, SW143)
Instructor: D. Flynn
A study of major Canadian playwrights with an emphasis on the creation of a national theatre, distinctive themes that emerge, and their relation to regional and national concerns. This course explores the perspectives of Québécois, feminist, Native, queer, ethnic, and Black playwrights who have shaped Canadian theatre.
Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30am-1:30pm, MW110
Instructor: Dr. M. Goldman
Literary analysis of the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament) and its 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, The Song of Solomon, Job, Jonah, Jeremiah.
Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00pm-2:30pm, MW110
Instructor: Dr. L. Wey
A study of fantasy and the fantastic from 1800 to the present. Students will consider various theories of the fantastic in order to chart the complex genealogy of modern fantasy across a wide array of literary genres (fairy tales, poems, short stories, and
novels) and visual arts (painting, comics, and film).
Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00pm-5:30pm, MW110
Instructor: Dr. S. Nikkila
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.
Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00am-11:30am, MW110
Instructor: Dr. L. Wey
A study of selected medieval texts by one or more authors.
Monday and Wednesday, 2:00pm-3:30pm, MW110
A study of the real and imagined multiculturalism of early modern English life. How did English encounters and exchanges with people, products, languages, and material culture from around the globe redefine ideas of national, ethnic, and racial community? In exploring this question, we will consider drama, poetry, travel journals, autobiography, letters, cookbooks, costume books, and maps.
Monday and Wednesday, 3:30pm-5:00pm, MW110
Instructor: Dr. M. Rubright
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.
Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30am-1:00pm, HW308
Instructor: A. Milne
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.
Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30pm-4:00pm, MW110
Instructor: A. Milne
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.
Monday and Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm, MW110
Instructor: Dr. A. Dubois
An exploration of the relationship between 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)?
Monday and Wednesday, 12:00pm-2:00pm, MW110
Instructor: Dr. A. Maurice
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."
Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00am-11:30am, HW308
Instructor: C. Hoffmann
An intensive study of the writing of poetry through a selected theme, topic, or author. The course will undertake its study through discussion and workshop sessions. Admission by portfolio. Portfolios should be left with the English departmental assistant in H331A no later than the first Tuesday of August. They should contain a selected sample (5-15 pp.) of your strongest writing, which must include poetry and may include fiction. Do not include originals.
Tuesday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, IC328
Instructor: Mr. D. Tysdal
An introduction to the writing of creative non-fiction through discussion and workshop sessions. Admission is by portfolio. The portfolio should be left with the English departmental assistant in H331A no later than the first Monday of October. It should contain 5-10pp. of your strongest fiction or non-fiction writing.
Thursday, 4:00pm-6:00pm, MW264
Instructor: Mr. D. Tysdal
An advanced inquiry into critical questions relating to the development of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and culture. Focus may include the intensive study of an author, genre, or body of work.
Monday, 12:00pm-2:00pm, MW262
Instructor: Dr. K. Larson
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.
Tuesday, 5:00pm-7:00pm, MW262
Instructor: A. Milne
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.
Tuesday, 7:00pm-9:00pm, MW262
Instructor: C. Hoffmann
TUT 01: Tuesday, 3:00pm-6:00pm, AA208
This seminar will usually provide advanced intensive study of a selected American poet each term, following the development of the author's work over the course of his or her entire career. It may also focus on a small group of thematically or historically related poets.
Wednesday, 1:00pm-3:00pm, IC328
Instructor: Dr. A. Dubois
This seminar course will usually provide advanced intensive study of a selected American prose-writer each term, following the development of the author's work over the course of his or her entire career. It may also focus on a small group of thematically or historically related prose-writers.
Tuesday, 3:00pm-5:00pm, MW262
Instructor: Prof. N. Dolan
Advanced study of theories and critical questions that inform current directions in cinema studies.
Monday, 2:00pm-4:00pm, MW262
Instructor: Dr. A. Maurice
An intensive year-long seminar that supports students in the development of a major independent scholarly project. Drawing on workshops and peer review, bi-weekly seminar meetings will introduce students to advanced research methodologies in English and will provide an important framework for students as they develop their individual senior essays. Depending on the subject area of the senior essay, this course can be counted towards the pre-1900 requirement.
Monday, 3:00pm-5:00pm, MW120