ENGL 300 level

Fall 2023 ENGLISH 300 LEVEL - Main Campus

Prerequisite ENGL 100 & 110

Students who are planning to major in English should, if possible, complete ENGL 211 and at least one of ENGL 221, 222, or 223 before enrolling in 300-level courses.

      

31395  ENGL 302-C01  - Shakespeare: Histories/Tragedies

J. Purnis   TR   10:00-11:15

We will study Titus Andronicus, Richard III, 1 Henry IV , Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear, considering the plays in light of their social, political, religious, and theatrical contexts. We will discuss the role of Shakespeare's history plays in contributing to or challenging Tudor propaganda; the generic conventions of tragedy; and spectacles of violence, madness, and the supernatural

 

31399  ENGL 328AC  - Romancing Renaissance Narrative

G. Sherbert   TR   14:30-15:45 - CL 417

This course focuses on sixteenth-century prose fiction and the various genres ranging from satire to romance. We study issues raised by the texts, such as the nature-nurture controversy and the virtues of the active and contemporary life, using various modern historic methods which analyse the relationship between politics and poetics.

31401  ENGL 339AB  - Literature and the Holocaust

M. Trussler   MWF   9:30-10:20 - CL 408

This course examines texts written by survivors of the Holocaust (memoir, fiction, poetry) as well as more recent texts by those by who didn't experience it directly.

 

31402  ENGL 384AJ - Place in Contemporary Fiction: The Settings and Spaces of Narrative

C. Melhoff   MWF  13:30-14:20 - CL 435

This course considers the role of place in contemporary fiction, from real-world locations to strange, impossible imaginary geographies. Thinking of place as more than just setting, as merely the zone in which plot unfolds, what else can we learn about narrative from the study of its representations of environmental spaces?

 

31404  ENGL 387AK - Comics and Cartoons

J. Demers   TR   10:00-11:15 - RI 209

This course explores comics and cartoons as literature. Topics explored will include interaction between word and image, form and content, and participation of comics in literary, historical, social, and philosophical movements.

 

31405  ENGL 399 - Methods for the Study of Literary Theory

G. Sherbert   TR   13:00-14:15 - CL 417

An exploration of methods used in some recent approaches to reading literary texts. Students will be required to write papers which offer textual readings based on the application of these approaches.