![]() Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy, eds.Abrams, M.H., and Geoffrey Galt Harpham. ![]() The English Literature program requires that ENGL 311 be taken in U1 so that all Literature students will be well prepared for their other studies with a shared terminology and training in critical writing. Discussions and assignments will therefore involve the memorization, identification, and application of concepts and terms essential to the study of literary techniques. The course instructors assume that students enrolled as English majors will already have some facility explaining what given works of literature mean we instead focus on understanding how literature creates meaning. In Poetics, we study such works not primarily in historical context, or as engagements with literary, cultural or social history, but for the techniques of literary art with which they communicate. You will read some works in Poetics that are also required in other courses, such as ENGL 202 and 203, the Departmental Surveys of English Literature. All the critical methodologies you will learn in your other English courses will benefit from your knowledge of the material of ENGL 311. All Literature Majors must sign up for a section of ENGL 311 in their first year in the Literature program.ĭescription: This course introduces students to the formal and stylistic elements of poetry and prose fiction, provides them with a shared vocabulary for recognizing and analyzing different literary forms, and develops their reading, writing, and critical discussion skills.Īlthough many critical methods can be applied to the works in this course, Poetics focuses on teaching students how to talk and write precisely about a wide range of formal and stylistic techniques in relation to literary meaning in poetry and prose fiction. ![]() This course is open only to English majors in the literature stream. Prerequisite or co-requisite: ENGL 202 or ENGL 200. Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments. Texts (available at the Word on Milton): Kinney, Arthur F. Many of these works provide purviews onto the cultural situation of early modern London that are rarely found in Shakespeare’s works. We will study these plays as exemplars of swiftly-changing and varied theatrical tastes in the period. We will read twelve plays from the period, about one a week, including The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd), The Tragical History of Dr Faustus (Christopher Marlowe), Arden of Faversham (Anon), The Tragedy of Antony (Mary Sidney), The Shoemaker’s Holiday (Thomas Dekker), A Woman Killed with Kindness (Thomas Heywood), The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Francis Beaumont), A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (Thomas Middleton), The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster), Bartholomew Fair (Ben Jonson), The Changeling (Middleton and Rowley), and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (John Ford). Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (Broadview)Įvaluation: 25% mid-term test 25% final test 50% term paper (2,000-2,500 words).ĭescription: In this course we will survey the impressive yield of English Renaissance drama written by writers other than William Shakespeare.Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (Broadview).William Godwin, Caleb Williams (Broadview).Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (Broadview).Northanger Abbey (1817), also drafted in the 1790s, is a witty parody and reworking of Gothic fiction. Sense and Sensibility (1811), first drafted in the 1790s, responds to many eighteenth-century issues, as its title suggests. We shall conclude with two of Jane Austen’s novels. We next turn to William Godwin’s Caleb Williams (1796), a powerful and complex novel written in response to government repression of the day. ![]() We shall then study an example of epistolary fiction: Frances Burney’s bestselling comic novel, Evelina (1778). ![]() From the 1760s, we shall explore the first Gothic novel: Horace Walpole’s pioneering The Castle of Otranto (1764). We shall begin in the 1750s with Samuel Johnson’s remarkable oriental tale, Rasselas (1759). Attention will be paid to gender issues, as well as to genre, style, and thematic concerns. Expected Student Preparation: Previous university-level course work in English.ĭescription: This course will study developments in the English novel from the mid-eighteenth century until the early 1800s. ![]()
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