ENGL 490-006: Writing in the Age of the Camera – Glenn Deer
Literature Majors Seminar Term 2 M, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. This course will examine the influence of photography and cinema on literary form. Photography has become such a common aspect of contemporary life that camera technology is now routinely built into our phones, computers, and automobiles. The photographic recording of everyday life provides an unprecedented […]
ENGL 490-005: Revolution in Modern American Poetry 1910-1945 – Mary Chapman
Literature Majors Seminar Term 1 Th, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. This seminar will introduce students to early twentieth-century American poetics. It will read the period’s poetry in terms of both its formal experimentation and its political radicalism. The course will survey the works of both canonical figures, such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos […]
ENGL 490-004: Black Noise: Cultures of the African Diaspora – Phanuel Antwi
Literature Majors Seminar Term 1 W, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. This course analyzes African diasporic art forms in North America, Europe, Latin America through the conceptual lens of “black noise.” We will use the prism of black noise to highlight the dynamic relationship between African diaspora studies and sound studies. While critics have tended to […]
ENGL 490-003: Captivity Narrative in Eighteenth-Century North America – Tiffany Potter
Literature Majors Seminar Term 1 W, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Gender, masculinity and femininity were ideas thought to be firmly understood in eighteenth-century North America; the idea of race, however, was only coming to be theorized in scientific terms in the second half of the century, and in popular and literary terms, ideas of […]
ENGL 490-002: Seeing Shakespeare – Elizabeth Hodgson
Literature Majors Seminar Term 1 T, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. “The play’s the thing wherein we’ll catch the conscience of the king,” says Hamlet. The anti-theatre lobbyists of Shakespeare’s day agreed that plays could change audiences—but not for the better. Shakespeare and his contemporaries were quite aware of the dubious magic performed by the […]
ENGL 490-001: The Mysteries of Identity: Deception and Disguise in Victorian Detective Fiction – Gregory Mackie
Literature Majors Seminar Term 1 M, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. “You see, but you do not observe”– Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson If perception is integral to detection, as Sherlock Holmes points out, what happens when our perceptions (of people, things, situations) are unreliable or indeed deceptive? This course considers the themes of performance and […]
ENGL 489-004: Viewpoint Phenomena in Communication – Barbara Dancygier
Language Majors Seminar Term 2 W, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. The seminar will focus on viewpoint as a conceptual mechanism and show its role in guiding the choices speakers and writers make in language and communication. In the first part of the course, we will study a range of linguistic forms: grammatical constructions (such as […]
ENGL 489-001: Rhetoric, New Media and Criticism – Ian Hill
Language Majors Seminar Term 1 M, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Why do some new media artifacts motivate belief and action while others fail do to do so? To answer this question, the seminar will examine the persuasive capacities of new media technologies and content. Students will learn how rhetorical criticism can be used to analyze […]
ENGL 211-001: Introduction to Critical Theory and Practice – Alexander Dick
Seminar for English Honours Term 1 M, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.; W, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. This course introduces students entering the English Honours Program to the major currents of literary theory commonly used in English studies today. We will review the schools and movements that have had the strongest influence on literary criticism in […]
ENGL 210-001: Literary Genres and their Development – Nicholas Hudson
An Introduction to English Honours Terms 1 – 2 MWF, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This version of the introductory course for English Honours students will concentrate on the development of the main literary genres since the Renaissance. Instead of proceeding in a straight chronological order, the course will match early and more modern variations […]