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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 396 | American DramaA survey of significant American dramatic literature. Touching on the 18th and 19th century contributions from Royal Tyler's The Contrast (1787) to George Aiken's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) and Steele MacKaye's Hazel Kirke (1880), the course moves quickly to Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon (1920), which many historians consider the first truly indigenous American drama of international import, and examines the significant work of playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard, and David Mamet. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English and third or fourth year standing; or 6 sem. hrs. of English and 3 sem. hrs. of theatre and third or fourth year standing; or instructor's consent.
Cross-listed: THTR 346 |
| 2025-2026 | ENGL 396 | American DramaA survey of significant American dramatic literature. Touching on the 18th and 19th century contributions from Royal Tyler's The Contrast (1787) to George Aiken's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) and Steele MacKaye's Hazel Kirke (1880), the course moves quickly to Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon (1920), which many historians consider the first truly indigenous American drama of international import, and examines the significant work of playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard, and David Mamet. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English and third or fourth year standing; or 6 sem. hrs. of English and 3 sem. hrs. of theatre and third or fourth year standing; or instructor's consent.
Cross-listed: THTR 346 |
| 2024-2025 | ENGL 400 | Special Topics in EnglishIndependent but guided research in a specialized area of interest to the student. Directed studies are not offered concurrently for courses available in the regular academic year. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English, third or fourth year standing, and instructor's consent. (3- 0; 3-0)
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 400 | Special Topics in EnglishIndependent but guided research in a specialized area of interest to the student. Directed studies are not offered concurrently for courses available in the regular academic year. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English, third or fourth year standing, and instructor's consent. (3- 0; 3-0)
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 412 | Twentieth-Century American LiteratureA study of representative works of twentieth-century American literature and the development of its themes in various historical, political, and socio-cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 412 | Twentieth-Century American LiteratureA study of representative works of twentieth-century American literature and the development of its themes in various historical, political, and socio-cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 414 | Literature and SpiritualityLiterature has been at the centre of the human story from its beginnings as recorded in ancient sacred texts to its current study as cultural narrative with transformative and transcendent possibilities for interpretation and creativity. This course will explore literary themes integral to the pursuit of Christian spirituality, past and present. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 414 | Literature and SpiritualityLiterature has been at the centre of the human story from its beginnings as recorded in ancient sacred texts to its current study as cultural narrative with transformative and transcendent possibilities for interpretation and creativity. This course will explore literary themes integral to the pursuit of Christian spirituality, past and present. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 415 | Literature and the EnvironmentA survey of English literary texts reflecting changing conceptions of and attitudes toward nature across time and place. Students will apply ecocritical analytical approaches to literature that explore the relationships among human and non-human beings and the environment. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 416 | Literature and GenderExamines the ways in which gender is represented in all forms of literature, from poetry and fiction to drama and creative nonfiction. Students will evaluate how literary representations of gender are informed by other social variables, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religious belief, political affiliation, and cultural background. They will appraise how time and place influence depictions of gender in literature and apply a broad array of contemporary literary theories to their analysis of diverse works of literature. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 422 | ChaucerA study of The Canterbury Tales and selected minor works, which may include The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and Troilus and Criseyde. The course involves reading Chaucer’s texts in their historical and cultural contexts. The student will also develop a good reading knowledge of Chaucerian Middle English. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
NB: No overlap with ENGL 430
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 422 | ChaucerA study of The Canterbury Tales and selected minor works, which may include The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and Troilus and Criseyde. The course involves reading Chaucer’s texts in their historical and cultural contexts. The student will also develop a good reading knowledge of Chaucerian Middle English. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
NB: No overlap with ENGL 430
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 430 | Medieval Mystical LiteratureA study of the literary writings of several medieval writers in the Christian mystical tradition, situated in their cultural and religious contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
NB: No overlap with ENGL 422.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 430 | Medieval Mystical LiteratureA study of the literary writings of several medieval writers in the Christian mystical tradition, situated in their cultural and religious contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
NB: No overlap with ENGL 422.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 450 | Honours EssayAll honours students will write a research paper of 20 to 25 pages, supervised by a member of the Department of English and Creative Writing, to be completed in the fourth year of study. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission to honours program. See department chair.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 450 | Honours EssayAll honours students will write a research paper of 20 to 25 pages, supervised by a member of the Department of English and Creative Writing, to be completed in the fourth year of study. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission to honours program. See department chair.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 451 | Drama to 1642 Excluding ShakespeareA study of English drama from its liturgical origins to the closing of the theatres in 1642, including medieval mystery cycles and morality plays as well as works by Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline playwrights. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
Cross-listed: THTR 441 |
| 2025-2026 | ENGL 451 | Drama to 1642 Excluding ShakespeareA study of English drama from its liturgical origins to the closing of the theatres in 1642, including medieval mystery cycles and morality plays as well as works by Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline playwrights. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
Cross-listed: THTR 441 |
| 2024-2025 | ENGL 453 | MiltonAn intensive study of selected works of poetry and prose by John Milton, situated in their cultural contexts. Particular attention is paid to Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 453 | MiltonAn intensive study of selected works of poetry and prose by John Milton, situated in their cultural contexts. Particular attention is paid to Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 454 | Renaissance Poetry and ProseA study of selected works of Renaissance poetry and prose (excluding those by Shakespeare and Milton), situated in their cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 454 | Renaissance Poetry and ProseA study of selected works of Renaissance poetry and prose (excluding those by Shakespeare and Milton), situated in their cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 456 | Seventeenth-Century Women's WritingA study of selected works written by women in seventeenth-century Britain and America, situated in their cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 456 | Seventeenth-Century Women's WritingA study of selected works written by women in seventeenth-century Britain and America, situated in their cultural contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 465 | Eighteenth-Century LiteratureA study of the literary works of the major writers of the eighteenth century. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English and third or fourth year standing, or instructor's consent. (3- 0; 0-0)
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 465 | Eighteenth-Century LiteratureA study of the literary works of the major writers of the eighteenth century. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English and third or fourth year standing, or instructor's consent. (3- 0; 0-0)
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 471 | Victorian Poetry and ProseA study of the poetry and nonfiction prose of British writers during the Victorian era, situating these works in their historical and social contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 471 | Victorian Poetry and ProseA study of the poetry and nonfiction prose of British writers during the Victorian era, situating these works in their historical and social contexts. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 482 | World Literature in EnglishA study of works written in English by writers from postcolonial nations, focussing on issues related to postcolonialism and literature. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 482 | World Literature in EnglishA study of works written in English by writers from postcolonial nations, focussing on issues related to postcolonialism and literature. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English or third-year standing.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 495 | Critical Approaches to LiteratureA survey of the major interpretive approaches to literature in contemporary theory and practice, considering the social and intellectual context out of which each approach arises. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English and third or fourth year standing, or instructor's consent. (3- 0 or 3-0)
NB: This course is required of all honours English students.
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 495 | Critical Approaches to LiteratureA survey of the major interpretive approaches to literature in contemporary theory and practice, considering the social and intellectual context out of which each approach arises. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 sem. hrs. of English and third or fourth year standing, or instructor's consent. (3- 0 or 3-0)
NB: This course is required of all honours English students.
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 510 | The Writing of Creative NonfictionA seminar in the reading and writing of literary nonfiction and in the development of a critical appreciation of its various forms. The course focuses on life writing in terms of its literary forms, as the authors’ responses to their culture, and as texts within which identity is shaped and altered by the intentional acts of their writers. Chosen texts demonstrate the art of life writing, as well as other paradigms for its interpretation and its literary and cultural influence. Such forms as (auto)biography, memoir, letters, diaries, travel and nature writing, and personal essays will provide the models for students’ exploration of this genre. Examples are drawn from writers such as C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, E.M. Forster, George Orwell, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Dillard, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O’Connor, John Bunyan, Virginia Woolf, and others who form part of the literary canon of such writing. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 510 | The Writing of Creative NonfictionA seminar in the reading and writing of literary nonfiction and in the development of a critical appreciation of its various forms. The course focuses on life writing in terms of its literary forms, as the authors’ responses to their culture, and as texts within which identity is shaped and altered by the intentional acts of their writers. Chosen texts demonstrate the art of life writing, as well as other paradigms for its interpretation and its literary and cultural influence. Such forms as (auto)biography, memoir, letters, diaries, travel and nature writing, and personal essays will provide the models for students’ exploration of this genre. Examples are drawn from writers such as C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, E.M. Forster, George Orwell, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Dillard, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O’Connor, John Bunyan, Virginia Woolf, and others who form part of the literary canon of such writing. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 512 | Studies in Twentieth- Century American LiteratureExamines representative works of twentieth century American literary prose and the development of its themes in various historical, political, and socio-cultural contexts, including the major wars and social upheavals in which American society has been involved in the last one hundred years. Students examine the major themes and values that comprise a canon of literature which addresses the literary movements characterized by realism and naturalism and the contexts of modernism and postmodernism to which literature has responded in the American tradition. American literature and its contributions to the discussions on religion, morality and Christianity, and the relationship between the three, are engaged. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 512 | Studies in Twentieth- Century American LiteratureExamines representative works of twentieth century American literary prose and the development of its themes in various historical, political, and socio-cultural contexts, including the major wars and social upheavals in which American society has been involved in the last one hundred years. Students examine the major themes and values that comprise a canon of literature which addresses the literary movements characterized by realism and naturalism and the contexts of modernism and postmodernism to which literature has responded in the American tradition. American literature and its contributions to the discussions on religion, morality and Christianity, and the relationship between the three, are engaged. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 514 | ENGL 514Literature has been at the centre of the human story from its beginnings as recorded in ancient sacred texts to its current study as cultural narrative with transformative and transcendent possibilities for interpretation and creativity. This course will explore literary themes integral to the pursuit of Christian spirituality, past and present. The movement to interdisciplinary interpretation and literary hermeneutics demands that students, as readers of text, understand the role that Christian thought and aesthetics have played in their influencing of contemporary literature. In understanding that role, human spirituality is being considered as one of the integral aspects of this enterprise; Christian spirituality offers foundational vantage points from which to participate in this ongoing task of creativity and engagement in the human condition. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 514 | ENGL 514Literature has been at the centre of the human story from its beginnings as recorded in ancient sacred texts to its current study as cultural narrative with transformative and transcendent possibilities for interpretation and creativity. This course will explore literary themes integral to the pursuit of Christian spirituality, past and present. The movement to interdisciplinary interpretation and literary hermeneutics demands that students, as readers of text, understand the role that Christian thought and aesthetics have played in their influencing of contemporary literature. In understanding that role, human spirituality is being considered as one of the integral aspects of this enterprise; Christian spirituality offers foundational vantage points from which to participate in this ongoing task of creativity and engagement in the human condition. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 515 | Literature and the EnvironmentA survey of English literary texts reflecting changing conceptions of and attitudes toward nature across time and place. Using an ecocritical framework, students will integrate and apply a variety of literary theories to diverse texts that explore relationships among human and non-human beings and the environment, with attention given to issues of creation theology, rural and urban landscape, conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 516 | Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyA study of poetry, its forms, conventions, and innovations in its development during the twentieth century, with particular representation from the American tradition. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 516 | Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyA study of poetry, its forms, conventions, and innovations in its development during the twentieth century, with particular representation from the American tradition. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 522 | ChaucerThis course takes up the study of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Parliament of Fowls, and Legend of Good Women. Care is taken to develop a good reading knowledge of Chaucerian Middle English. The literary, social, economic, political, and spiritual principles in Chaucer’s texts, and the aesthetic techniques employed to shape them, will be situated within the historical and cultural contexts of Ricardian, or late fourteenth-century, England. Chaucer wrote for a populace that had confronted decimating plagues as well as social, economic, and religious upheaval. The course draws out the competing medieval voices that emerge in the works composed in this context, which often articulate searing critiques of a complex, disorderly, patriarchal, violent, and humorous medieval world. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 522 | ChaucerThis course takes up the study of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Parliament of Fowls, and Legend of Good Women. Care is taken to develop a good reading knowledge of Chaucerian Middle English. The literary, social, economic, political, and spiritual principles in Chaucer’s texts, and the aesthetic techniques employed to shape them, will be situated within the historical and cultural contexts of Ricardian, or late fourteenth-century, England. Chaucer wrote for a populace that had confronted decimating plagues as well as social, economic, and religious upheaval. The course draws out the competing medieval voices that emerge in the works composed in this context, which often articulate searing critiques of a complex, disorderly, patriarchal, violent, and humorous medieval world. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 530 | Medieval English LiteratureFocuses on the rich and varied visionary and mystical literature of the early, high and late Middle Ages, including the writings of Bernard of Clairvaux, Richard of St. Victor, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Richard Rolle, the author of the Cloud of Unknowing, and Meister Eckhart. The influence of early theologians and philosophers (such as Origen, Plotinus, and Augustine) on these mystics is considered in detail, as is the influence of the medieval mystics on mystical thinkers of Renaissance Europe (including Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross). This course also seeks to read the ontological and epistemological elements of medieval mysticism through the filter of modern philosophical paradigms. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 530 | Medieval English LiteratureFocuses on the rich and varied visionary and mystical literature of the early, high and late Middle Ages, including the writings of Bernard of Clairvaux, Richard of St. Victor, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Richard Rolle, the author of the Cloud of Unknowing, and Meister Eckhart. The influence of early theologians and philosophers (such as Origen, Plotinus, and Augustine) on these mystics is considered in detail, as is the influence of the medieval mystics on mystical thinkers of Renaissance Europe (including Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross). This course also seeks to read the ontological and epistemological elements of medieval mysticism through the filter of modern philosophical paradigms. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 534 | European Literature in TranslationA survey of European drama and prose classics from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, this course explores and critically evaluates the shift in worldviews from Dante's Christian humanism to Kafka's and Camus' modern existentialist view of human existence. In order to provide depth to our analysis of the works and to highlight the significance of the shift in worldview, the works will be discussed in their historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts, in combination with close reading and various theoretical interpretative approaches. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 534 | European Literature in TranslationA survey of European drama and prose classics from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, this course explores and critically evaluates the shift in worldviews from Dante's Christian humanism to Kafka's and Camus' modern existentialist view of human existence. In order to provide depth to our analysis of the works and to highlight the significance of the shift in worldview, the works will be discussed in their historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts, in combination with close reading and various theoretical interpretative approaches. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 551 | Shakespeare IStudents study seven plays by William Shakespeare (representative histories, tragedies, comedies, and romances) in addition to his narrative poem Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare's plays are considered as both established literary works and as scripts written for performance, and students apply different critical approaches to his works in an attempt to discover the source and nature of the play's aesthetic power and dramatic force. The course attempts to determine whether William Shakespeare is, as some have claimed, the greatest and most influential writer of all time. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | ENGL 551 | Shakespeare IStudents study seven plays by William Shakespeare (representative histories, tragedies, comedies, and romances) in addition to his narrative poem Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare's plays are considered as both established literary works and as scripts written for performance, and students apply different critical approaches to his works in an attempt to discover the source and nature of the play's aesthetic power and dramatic force. The course attempts to determine whether William Shakespeare is, as some have claimed, the greatest and most influential writer of all time. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ENGL 552 | Shakespeare IIStudents study of seven representative plays (not covered in ENGL 551) of William Shakespeare and a selection of his sonnets. The Shakespearean works are read within the historically specific cultural context in which they were produced. The course pays particular attention to the way in which Shakespeare blurs generic, thematic, and ideological boundaries in his poetic and dramatic works — exploring his fusion of the tragic and the comic, the sacred and the profane, the noble and the plebeian, the fantastic and the historic, and the orthodox and the transgressive. Students also explore the ways in which these richly layered texts affirm or interrogate the dominant cultural values in Elizabethan and Jacobean Britain. Course Credits: 3
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