ENGLISH 300 LEVEL

301 Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances

Shakespeare is a paradox: an unassailable icon of Western culture, he is newly invented in every age. This course examines the enduring appeal of six comedies and romances (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest), using both traditional and contemporary theoretical approaches (psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and queer theory). How do we invent Shakespeare’s desiring women and men; how do they invent us, shaping our own views of gender and sexuality?

*This course fulfills the Shakespeare or Period I requirement*

Instructor: G. Sherbert                Ph: 585-4966 Email: garry.sherbert@uregina.ca

ENGL 301-001      CRN: 11056       Time: 11:30-12:45         Days: TR

302 Shakespeare Histories and Tragedies

A study of five to seven of Shakespeare's histories and tragedies.

*This course fulfills the Shakespeare or Period I requirement*

Instructor: J. Purnis         Email: jan.purnis@uregina.ca  

ENGL 302-C01          CRN: 11057       Time: 2:30-3:45        Days: MW 

303 Milton

We will study some of Milton's major works, including some early poems and political writings. Our primary focus, however, will be on Paradise Lost, Milton's epic poem about "man's first disobedience," the eating of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. We will consider Paradise Lost in its historical and literary contexts, exploring, for example, discourses of colonialism and gender in Milton's retelling of the Fall; the place of his compelling depiction of Satan and his revenge against God in the literary tradition; and the epic's engagement with scientific and medical theory in episodes like Raphael's detailed description of the digestive processes of angels.  

Instructor: J. Purnis         Email: jan.purnis@uregina.ca  

ENGL 303-C01          CRN: 11058       Time: 4:00-5:15        Days: MW   

304AC Poetry of W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats' literary creations span a period of more than fifty years. In his youth, he determined that his life's work would be primarily that of writing poetry. He became one of the foremost poets of his time as well as a playwright and a statesman. Material for the course will focus on Yeats' changing themes and styles in selected pieces of his poetry and may include a few plays and short fiction pieces.

Instructor: F. Obrigewitsch         Email: frank.ogrigewitsch@uregina.ca  

ENGL 304AC-C01          CRN: 11059       Time: 5:30-8:30        Days: W

310AA Contemporary Canadian Aboriginal Literature

Instructor: J. Archibald-Barber    Email: jarchibald-barber@firstnationsuniversity.ca

ENGL 310AA-S01     CRN: 13046      Time: 5:30-9:30     Day: W

314AA Canadian Drama

Canadian theatre has historically been defined by its relative youth (as a collected literature), multiple themes, pluralism, regionalism and landscapes.  The central focus of this course will look at minority voices within the “cultural mosaic”.  Minority voices that have historically been written over but are now writing back forming a vibrant core of the new Canadian drama.  Plays studied will include: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The December Man (L’homme de decembre), The Berlin Blues, The Komagata Maru Incident, Hosanna, & Lady in a Red Dress.  This course is timetabled to coincide with the Playwright’s Reading Series (work from some of the playwrights will be studies before attending the reading).

Instructor: W. Pearce          Ph: 585-5571          Email: wes.pearce@uregina.ca

ENGL 314AA-001          CRN: 12789      Time:  Web Delivered

315AD Contemporary Canadian Literature and Memory

 Instructor: K. Wall      Email: kathleen.wall@uregina.ca

ENGL 315AD-001        CRN: 12664       Time: 10:00-11:15        Days: TR

318AE 19C American Gothic Literature

This course will examine how representations of horror and terror in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature encode our individual and national anxieties about the dark side of life--our fears of the unknown, the irrational, the supernatural; our fears of victimization, of sexuality, of identity-loss; our fears of dissolving or transgressed boundaries between self and other, sanity and madness, civilization and savagery, good and evil. Beginning with the dark romantic gothic of  Hawthorne and Poe, we will trace these themes, including the "female gothic" and "racial gothic," in several short stories as well as Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Toni Morrison’s. 

 Instructor: C. MacKenzie     Email: cindy.mackenzie@uregina.ca

ENGL 318AE-001        CRN: 11061       Time: 1:00-2:15       Days: TR

320AA Madness and Monstrosity

This course examines both fictional and non-fictional representations of madness and monstrosity in 18th and 19th century women's writing.  Course topics include female criminals, prostitutes, monstrous mothers, and those who practice transgressive sexuality. 

ENGL 320AA-001        CRN: 12582      Time: 11:30-12:20       Days: MWF

336AC Victorian Poetry

This course takes as its focus the place of poetry in the culture of the Victorians. The poets of this period rose to the challenge of developing new forms, such as the dramatic monologue, and reinventing classic forms, such as the elegy, the sonnet sequence and the epic, to meet the demands of their changing world. In this class, we will study works by diverse poets; we will investigate and enjoy their experimentation with form and language as well as their engagement with important social, political, and cultural issues. A continuing question for us will be how they understood the role of poets and poetry in their increasingly technological and scientific world; we will also consider the special problems (or advantages) of writing as a woman poet at this time. As important, though, will be for us to revel in the energy of their verse, which for sheer aesthetic variety easily equals that of any of the other poetic ages of literary history. Finally, by reading Victorian poems in their contexts, we will discover key aspects of Victorian culture, history and thought. Therefore, this course counts towards the requirement for a period III class.

ENGL 336AC-C01        CRN: 11062      Time: 1:30-2:20       Days: MWF

339AB Literature and the Holocaust

No other historical event has caused writers to question the ethical implications of creating art than the Holocaust. This course will examine literary texts that respond to the Holocaust as an historical event and philosophical problem that requires people to think about evil, responsibility, memory and the nature of representation.  While much of the course will focus on texts written by those who experienced the Holocaust directly (Charlotte Delbo, Etty Hillesum, Imre Kertész, PrimoLevi), we will also examine late twentieth-century works (Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, W.G. Sebald) that explore the ways that Holocaust survivors reacted to their traumatic experience.  The course contains a diary, fiction and poetry, and Art Spiegelman's famous graphic novel Maus.

ENGL 339AB-001        CRN: 11062      Time: 1:30-2:20       Days: MWF