![]() ![]() 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. On both occasions I sat up like a toddler recognising their own reflection for the first time and squealed ‘that’s me.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. It happened before, when I was 13 years old, and Tim Curry’s diamante encrusted platform stiletto stomped rhythmically to the opening bars of his spectacular entrance when I first saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show on television. ![]() I realised that I had a fizz of recognition seeing that picture. ![]() The image Christine Hamilton shared was of Sam Smith looking resplendent in a diamante encrusted corset with their fat, smooth chest proudly on display. That feminine softness I mentioned then becomes another way in which I’m told my body is incorrect.Īnd that’s why, on certain days, when the target ads for fad diets are at their loudest, when the intrusive comments from ‘loved ones’ have stung, after days and weeks of thin bodies being celebrated as the standard in television, films, and magazines, I can’t even look at myself. There’s a feminine softness to my body (Picture: Dan Burraway) ![]()
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