(Course times may change. Consult the UTSC on-line timetable for the most accurate information: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~registrar/scheduling/timetable)
In ENGA11, we will continue our study of literature and film against the backdrop
of Twentieth Century modernity, from 1945 to the present. In lectures on works such as
Becket’s Waiting for Godot, we will place the rise of fascism, and its discourse of
mastery, alongside the loss of transcendental certitude and the post-enlightenment
crisis brought on by the Atomic Age and the Holocaust. Ethnic, racial and postcolonial
issues will figure prominently in discussions of Naipaul’s Miguel Street and Morrison’s
The Bluest Eye. Issues of identity and postmodernism will be explored in the novel White
Noise and Hitchcock’s Vertigo. At all times we will be interested in the lived experience of
modernity—what it felt like—as well as whatever it was, and whatever it still is.
Wednesday, 9:00am-11:00am, IC130
Instructor: D. Flynn
How do you read a book? Is that book a narrative? What exactly is a narrative? How do we interpret that narrative? In this course we will be exploring questions like these as we try to figure out what it means to ?read a story? as English literature students, 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 characters, time and space, interpretation and intertextuality. This course will focus on a small number of narratives in a variety of forms.
Thursday, 11:00am-1:00pm, SW309
Instructor: Dr. S. Nikkila
TUT 01: Thursday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, MW262
TUT 02: Thursday, 1:00pm-2:00pm, IC120
TUT 03: Thursday, 2:00pm-3:00pm, MW262
TUT 04: Thursday, 2:00pm-3:00pm, IC120
TUT 05: Thursday, 3:00pm-4:00pm, MW262
TUT 06: Thursday, 3:00pm-4:00pm, IC120
The title “Critical Thinking About Poetry” says much about what we hope to accomplish in this course. We will amass a range of critical tools that will help us learn 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 enrol in a one-hour tutorial; please consult the online timetable for the schedule.
Tuesday, 1:00pm-3:00pm, SW309
Instructor: Mr. D. Tysdal
TUT 01: Tuesday, 3:00pm-4:00pm, AC334
TUT 02: Tuesday, 3:00pm-4:00pm, AA208
TUT 03: Tuesday, 4:00pm-5:00pm, AC334
TUT 04: Tuesday, 4:00pm-5:00pm, AA208
TUT 05: Tuesday, 5:00pm-6:00pm, AC334
TUT 06: Tuesday, 5:00pm-6:00pm, AA208
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, MW264
Instructor: K. Ogden
LEC 02: Monday and Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm, MW264
Instructor: A. Wilson
LEC 03: Monday and Wednesday, 12:00pm-1:30pm, MW264
Instructor: J. O'Kell
LEC 04: Monday and Wednesday, 1:30pm-3:00pm, MW264
Instructor: S. De Jong
LEC 05: Monday and Wednesday, 3:00pm-4:30pm, MW264
Instructor: D. Harney
LEC 06: Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00pm-5:30pm, MW264
Instructor: J. Leach
LEC 30: Tuesday and Thursday, 5:30pm-7:00pm, MW264
Instructor: K. Hainer
An introductory survey of major novels, short fiction, poetry, and drama. An introductory survey of major novels, short fiction, poetry, and drama produced in the aftermath of the American Civil War. Exploring texts ranging from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah, this course will consider themes of immigration, ethnicity, modernization, individualism, class, and community.
Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00pm-2:30pm, SW143
Instructor: Neal Dolan
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.
Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30pm-4:00pm, SW143
Instructor: K. Urschel
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.
Tuesday, 6:00pm-9:00pm, HW215
Instructor: R. Hawkins
A study of the romance, a genre whose episodic tales of marvellous adventures and questing heroes have been both criticized and celebrated. This course looks at the range of a form stretching from Malory and Spenser through Scott and Tennyson to contemporary forms such as fantasy, science fiction, postmodern romance, and the romance novel.
Monday and Wednesday, 3:30pm-5:00pm, SW319
Instructor: N. Rose
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.
Monday and Wednesday, 2:00pm-3:30pm, SW319
Instructor: N. Rose
This course serves as an introduction to the writing of fiction through lively discussions, experiential exercises, and engaging workshop sessions. Whether you are a novice author, a master fabulist, 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 stories and the world, by introducing you to a wide-range of writing strategies, storytelling schools, and publishing opportunities. Admission by portfolio. Your portfolio must be left with the English departmental assistant in HW525C no later than the first Monday of October. Your portfolio will contain a selected sample (5-10 pp.) of your strongest writing; also, it must include fiction and may include poetry. Do not submit originals.
Wednesday, 7:00pm-9:00pm, AA205
Instructor: D. Tysdal
An introduction to the critical study of cinema, including films from a broad range of genres, nations, and eras, as well as readings representing the major critical approaches to cinema that have developed over the past century. In this course, we will "read" films in much the same way as we read other texts. The course will introduce students to the vocabulary of film criticism: by paying attention to "film language" (elements including cinematography, editing, mise-en-scène, sound, narrative construction, performance styles, etc.), we can begin to analyze films as works of art and as cultural and economic products. We will also think about our own interactions with the movies we watch: how do the movies teach us to see, and how do the movies "see" us? Throughout, our goal will be to think critically and to write persuasively about a medium we usually take for granted. Films include The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Citizen Kane, City Lights, Meshes of the afternoon, Persona, Blow Up.
Wednesday, 9:00am-12:00pm, SW309 (Screening)
Wednesday, 3:00pm-5:00pm, SW309 (Lecture)
Instructor: A. Maurice
An examination of three or more Canadian writers. This course will draw together selected major writers of Canadian fiction or of other forms. Topics vary from year to year and might include a focused study of major women writers; major racialized and ethnicized writers such as African-Canadian or Indigenous writers; major writers of a particular regional or urban location or of a specific literary period.
Monday and Wednesday, 12:00pm-1:30pm, MW110
Instructor: K. Vernon
A study of the plays of Shakespeare. An in-depth study of select plays from Shakespeare's dramatic corpus combined with an introduction to the critical debates within Shakespeare studies. Students will gain a richer understanding of Shakespeare's texts and their critical reception.
Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30am-12:00pm, MW110
Instructor: L. Wey
A study of selected topics in literary criticism.Schools of criticism and critical methodologies such as New Criticism, structuralism, poststructuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality studies, New Historicism, and postcolonialism will be covered, both to give students a roughly century-wide survey of the field and to provide them with a range of models applicable to their own critical work as writers and thinkers. Recommended for students planning to pursue graduate study in English Literature.
Monday and Wednesday, 9:00am-10:30am, MW110
Instructor: A. Dubois
Literary analysis of the narratives and other literary forms in the New Testament, and extended consideration of selected literary texts that the New Testament has influenced.
Monday and Wednesday, 1:30pm-3:00pm, MW110
Instructor: L. Wey
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.
Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30am-4:30pm, MW110
Instructor: S. Nikkila
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).
Monday and Wednesday, 3:30pm-5:00pm, MW110
Instructor: L. Wey
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.
Monday and Wednesday, 10:30pm-12:00pm, MW110
Instructor: K. Larson
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.
Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30am-1:00pm, HW308
Instructor: A. Milne
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.
Tuesday and Thursday, 12:00pm-1:30pm, MW110
Instructor: A. Milne
An analysis of space and place in literature. This course studies representations of space in literature - whether geographical, regional, or topographical - that offer conceptual alternatives to the nation, state, or tribe. Geographical or regional focus may change depending on instructor.
Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30pm-5:00pm, HW308
Instructor: K. Vernon
A continuation of ENGC70H3, focusing on texts written since 1980.
Monday and Wednesday, 10:00pm-11:30pm, HW308
Instructor: C. Hoffmann
A study of non-Western films. This course analyzes a selection of African, Asian, and Middle Eastern films, both on their own terms and against the backdrop of issues of colonialism and globalization.
Tuesday and Thursday, 4:30pm-6:00pm, MW110
Instructor: C. Hoffman
In this course, you will undertake an intensive study of the writing of fiction through a selected theme, topic, or author by building on the work performed and epiphanies achieved in ENGB61. Admission by portfolio. Your portfolio must be left with the English departmental assistant in HW525C no later than the first Monday of October. Your portfolio will contain a selected sample (5-10 pp.) of your strongest writing; also, it must include fiction and may include poetry. Do not submit originals.
Wednesday, 3:00pm-5:00pm, AA204
Instructor: D. Tysdal
A study of selected topics in recent literary theory. Emphasis may be placed on the oeuvre of a particular theorist or on the impact of a given theoretical movement; in either case, the relation of theory to literary critical practice will be considered, as will the claims made by theory across a range of aesthetic and political discourses and in response to real world demands. Recommended for students planning to pursue graduate study in English Literature.
Wednesday, 12:00pm-2:00pm, BV361
Instructor: S. Cole
An exploration of multicultural perspectives on issues of power, perception, and identity as revealed in representations of imperialism and colonialism from the early twentieth century to the present.
Monday, 10:00am-12:00pm, BV361
Instructor: C. Hoffmann
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.
Monday, 12:00pm-2:00pm, BV361
Instructor: A Dubois
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 steampunk.
Thursday, 6:00pm-8:00pm, MW223
Instructor: S. Nikkila
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.
Thursday, 10:00am-12:00pm, AA205 (Screening)
Thursday, 2:00pm-4:00pm, IC320 (Lecture)
Instructor: A. Maurice