Literature Option

NB: Students in an English program who wish to take an introductory Shakespeare course must take ENGL 315 and not ENGL 215.  If you took ENGL 215 prior to declaring your English program on Minerva, however, that course may count retroactively towards your program requirements in one of:  pre-1800 courses; Major Author; Shakespeare; Renaissance.

Theory and Criticism
317:  Philosophical Approaches (Winter)
319:  Authorship, Performance, and Reception (Fall)
346: Materiality and Sociology of Text (Winter)
352: Theories of Difference (Fall)

Major Author
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
316: Milton (Fall)
357: Chaucer (Winter)
409: Leonard Cohen (Winter)
417: Spenser, Faerie Queene (Winter)
418: Major Modernist Author—H.D. and the Moderns (Fall)

Literature Before 1800
301: Earlier 18C Novel (Winter)
305: Renaissance English Literature 1 (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
316: Milton (Fall)
342: Intro to Old English (Fall)
356: Middle English—Literature of the 15C (Fall)
357: Chaucer—Canterbury Tales (Winter)
416: Special Studies in Shakespeare (Fall)
452: Studies in Old English: reading Beowulf (Winter)
456: Middle English (Fall)

Canadian Literature
228: Canadian Literature 1 (Winter)
297 Introduction to Inuit, Métis and First Nations Literature, Video and Film (Winter)
333: Dev of Canadian Poetry 2 (Fall)
327: Development of Canadian Prose Fiction (Winter)
409: Leonard Cohen (Winter)
410: Canadian Romanticism (Fall)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media: Ipellie (Fall)
441: Special Topics in Canadian Literature—Canadian Literary Fare (Winter)

American Literature
225: American Literature 1 (Fall)
226: American Literature 2 (Winter)
323: 20C American Poetry (Winter)
324: 20C American Prose( Fall)
326: 19C American Prose (Winter)
414: Special Studies in 20C Literature (Winter)
422: Studies in 19C American Literature—Great Short Stories (Winter)

Backgrounds of English Literature
347: Great Writings of Europe 1 (Winter)
348: Great Writings of Europe 2 (Fall)
349: English Literature and Folklore (Winter)
437: Studies in Literary Form—Autobiography and the Novel (Fall)

Old English
342: Intro to Old English (Fall)
452: Studies in Old English: reading Beowulf (Winter)

Medieval
356: Middle English—Literature of the 15C (Fall)
357: Chaucer—Canterbury Tales (Winter)
456: Middle English (Fall)

Renaissance
305: Renaissance English Literature 1 (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
316: Milton (Fall)
416: Special Studies in Shakespeare (Fall)
417: Spenser—Faerie Queene (Winter)

Restoration
303: Restoration and 18C Lit 2 (Fall)

18C Literature
301: Earlier 18C Novel (Winter)
303: Restoration and 18C Lit 2 (Fall)
437: Studies in Literary Form—Autobiography and the Novel (Fall)

Romanticism
331: Literature of the Romantic Period 1 (Fall)
410: Canadian Romanticism (Fall)

Victorian
312: Victorian and Edwardian Drama (Fall)
329: 19C British Novel (Winter)
405: The British Essay Tradition (Winter)

19C American
326: 19C American Prose (Winter)
422: Studies in 19C American Literature—Short Story (Winter)

Early 20C
327: Development of Canadian Prose Fiction (Winter)
422: Studies in 19C American Literature—Short Story (Winter)

Modern
323: The ‘Metic’ in Modern American Poetry (Winter)
335: 20C Novel 1 (Winter)
418: A Major Modernist Author (Fall)
424: Irish Literature (Winter)
430: Studies in Drama—Modernism and the Theatre (Fall)

Contemporary
324: 20C American Prose (Fall)
409: Leonard Cohen (Winter)
414: Contemporary American Poetry (Winter)
424: Irish Literature (Winter)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media: Ipellie (Fall)
441: Special Topics in Canadian Literature—Canadian Literary Fare (Winter)
444: Gender in Postcolonial Literature (Winter)
490: Silence and the Mute Figure in Literature and Film (Fall)
492: The Graphic Novel (Fall)