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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.

Pre-1800 Courses

  • ENGL 302 Restoration and18th-Century Literature 1 (Winter)
  • ENGL 304 Later Eighteenth Century Novel (Winter)
  • ENGL 305 Renaissance English Literature 1 (16th Century Non-Dramatic Literary Culture) (Winter)
  • ENGL 309 English Renaissance Drama 2 (Jacobean Theatre History) (Fall)
  • ENGL 310 Restoration and 18th-Century Drama (Restoration Comedy) (Winter)
  • ENGL 315 Shakespeare (Protean Shakespeare) (Fall)
  • ENGL 316 Milton (Fall)
  • ENGL 337 Theme or Genre in Medieval Literature (Fall)
  • ENGL 342 Introduction to Old English (Winter)
  • ENGL 347 Great Writings of Europe 1 (Foundations of Western Epic and Mythology: Homer, Virgil, and Ovid) (Winter)
  • ENGL 348 Great Writings of Europe 2 (Early European Literature) (Winter)
  • ENGL 349 English Literature and Folklore (Fall)
  • ENGL 356 Middle English (Winter)
  • ENGL 357 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (Winter)
  • ENGL 400 Earlier English Renaissance: Marlowe and Jonson (Winter)
  • ENGL 401 Studies in the 17th Century: The 1590s (Winter)
  • ENGL 403 Studies in the 18th Century: Samuel Johnson and English Poetry, 1650-1750 (Winter)
  • ENGL 416 Studies in Shakespeare (The Politics of the Past:  Writing the Nation in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries) (Winter)
  • ENGL 447 Cross Currents in English and European Literature: The Adventures of Hercules (Fall)
  • ENGL 456 Middle English: Medieval Erotic Literature (Fall)
  • ENGL 500 Middle English: The Works of the Gawain-Poet (Winter)
  • ENGL 501 Sixteenth Century: Elizabethan Ovidianism (Winter)
  • ENGL 516 Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Art of Personation (Fall)

Theory and Criticism

  • ENGL 318 Theory of English Studies 2 (Socio-Historical Approaches to Literature) (Winter)
  • ENGL 346 Sociology and Materiality of Text (Winter)
  • ENGL 352  Theories of Difference (Fall)

Major Author

  • ENGL 315 Shakespeare (Protean Shakespeare) (Fall)
  • ENGL 316 Milton (Fall)
  • ENGL 345 Literature and Society: Thomas Hardy (Winter)
  • ENGL 357 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (Winter)
  • ENGL 403 Studies in the 18th Century: Samuel Johnson and English Poetry, 1650-1750 (Winter)
  • ENGL 409 A Canadian Author (Leonard Cohen) (Winter)
  • ENGL 418 A Major Modernist Writer (Pound) (Fall)
  • ENGL 500 Middle English: The Works of the Gawain-Poet (Winter)
  • ENGL 516 Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Art of Personation (Fall)

Backgrounds of English Literature

  • ENGL 347 Great Writings of Europe 1 (Foundations of Western Epic and Mythology: Homer, Virgil, and Ovid) (Winter)
  • ENGL 348 Great Writings of Europe 2 (Early European Literature) (Winter)
  • ENGL 349 English Literature and Folklore (Fall)
  • ENGL 447 Cross Currents in English and European Literature: The Adventures of Hercules (Fall)
  • ENGL 501 Sixteenth Century: Elizabethan Ovidianism (Winter)

 

Old English

  • ENGL 342 Introduction to Old English (Winter)

 

Medieval

  • ENGL 337 Theme or Genre in Medieval Literature (Fall)
  • ENGL 348 Great Writings of Europe 2 (Early European Literature) (Winter)
  • ENGL 356 Middle English (Winter)
  • ENGL 357 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (Winter)
  • ENGL 456 Middle English: Medieval Erotic Literature (Fall)
  • ENGL 500 Middle English: The Works of the Gawain-Poet (Winter)

 

Renaissance

  • ENGL 305 – Renaissance English Literature 1  (16th Century Non-Dramatic Literary Culture)  (Winter)
  • ENGL 309 English Renaissance Drama 2 (Jacobean Theatre History) (Fall)
  • ENGL 315 Shakespeare (Protean Shakespeare) (Fall)
  • ENGL 316 Milton (Fall)
  • ENGL 400 Earlier English Renaissance: Marlowe and Jonson (Winter)
  • ENGL 401 Studies in the 17th Century (The 1590s) (Winter)
  • ENGL 416 Studies in Shakespeare (The Politics of the Past:  Writing the Nation in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries) (Winter) 
  • ENGL 447 Cross Currents in English and European Literature: The Adventures of Hercules (Fall)
  • ENGL 501 Sixteenth Century: Elizabethan Ovidianism (Winter)
  • ENGL 516 Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Art of Personation (Fall)

Restoration

  • ENGL 302 Restoration and18th-Century Literature 1 (Winter)
  • ENGL 310 Restoration and18th-Century Drama (Restoration Comedy)  (Winter)

 

18th Century

  • ENGL 302 Restoration and18th-Century Literature 1 (Winter)
  • ENGL 304 Later 18th-Century Novel (Winter)
  • ENGL 310 Restoration and 18th-Century Drama (Restoration Comedy) (Winter)
  • ENGL 403 Studies in the 18th-Century (Samuel Johnson and English Poetry, 1650-1750 (Winter)

Romantic

  • ENGL 331 Literature of the Romantic Period 1 (Winter)

 

Victorian

  • ENGL 329 English Novel: 19th-Century 1 (Fall)
  • ENGL 330 English Novel: 19th Century 2 (Winter)
  • ENGL 334 Victorian Poetry (Fall)
  • ENGL 345 Literature and Society (Thomas Hardy) (Winter)
  • ENGL 405 Studies in 19th-Century Literature 2 (Fall)
  • ENGL 504 19th-Century (Popular Victorian Fiction) (Winter)

 

19th-Century American

  • ENGL 326 19th-Century American Prose (Fall)
  • ENGL 422 Studies in 19th-Century American Literature (Winter)
  • ENGL 437 Studies in a Literary Form (Black American Writing and the Question of Mixed-Race Literature (Winter)
  • ENGL 525 American Literature (Fall)

Early 20th Century

  • ENGL 361 Poetry of the 20th Century 1 (Fall)
  • ENGL 418 A Major Modernist Writer (Pound) (Fall)

Modernist

  • ENGL 314 20th Century Drama (Realism and its Discontents) (Winter)
  • ENGL 327 Canadian Prose Fiction 1 (Winter)
  • ENGL 361 Poetry of the 20th Century 1 (Fall)
  • ENGL 418 A Major Modernist Writer (Pound) (Fall)

 

Post-Modernist

  • ENGL 320 Postcolonial Literature (Winter)
  • ENGL 323 20th Century American Poetry (Winter)
  • ENGL 333 Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (Winter)
  • ENGL 339 Canadian Prose Fiction 2 (Fall)
  • ENGL 408 The 20th-Century (Canada and Its Americas) (Fall)
  • ENGL 410 Theme of Movement in Canadian Literature (Winter)
  • ENGL 444 Studies in Women's Writing and Feminist Theory (Fall)
  • ENGL 490 Culture and Critical Theory 2 (Memoire and Memory) (Winter)
  • ENGL 527 Canadian Literature (Contemporary Canadian Fiction) (Fall)

Contemporary

  • ENGL 320 Postcolonial Literature (Winter)
  • ENGL 323 20th-Century American Poetry (Winter)
  • ENGL 333 Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (Winter)
  • ENGL 335 The 20th Century Novel 1: British Fiction (Fall)
  • ENGL 336 The 20th Century Novel 2: Postwar British Fiction (Winter)
  • ENGL 339 Canadian Prose Fiction 2 (Fall)
  • ENGL 408 The 20th Century (Canada and Its Americas) (Fall)
  • ENGL 409 A Canadian Author (Leonard Cohen) (Winter)
  • ENGL 444 Studies in Women's Writing and Feminist Theory (Fall)
  • ENGL 490 Culture and Critical Theory 2 (Memoire and Memory) (Winter)
  • ENGL 527 Canadian Literature (Contemporary Canadian Fiction) (Fall)

Shakespeare

  • ENGL 315 Shakespeare (Protean Shakespeare) (Fall)
  • ENGL 389 Studies in Popular Culture (Shakespeare on Film) (Winter)
  • ENGL 416 Studies in Shakespeare (The Politics of the Past:  Writing the Nation in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries) (Winter) 
  • ENGL 516 Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Art of Personation (Fall)

Canadian

  • ENGL 228 Introduction to Canadian Literature 1 (Winter)
  • ENGL 327 Canadian Prose Fiction 1 (Winter)
  • ENGL 333 Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (Winter)
  • ENGL 339 Canadian Prose Fiction 2 (Fall)
  • ENGL 408 The 20th Century (Canada and Its Americas) (Fall)
  • ENGL 409 A Canadian Author (Leonard Cohen) (Winter)
  • ENGL 410 A Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature (Winter)
  • ENGL 527 Canadian Literature (Fall)

American

  • ENGL 323 20th-Century American Poetry (Winter)
  • ENGL 326 19th-Century American Prose (Fall)
  • ENGL 422 Studies in 19th-Century American Literature (Winter)
  • ENGL 437 Studies in a Literary Form (Black American Writing and the Question of Mixed-Race Literature (Winter)
  • ENGL 525 American Literature (Fall)
  • ENGL 545 Topics in Literature and Society (Four Media of the American Uncanny) (Fall)

 

Cultural Studies (as Literature Honours requirement) any course on the Complementary Course List for Cultural Studies fulfills this requirement

 

Drama and Theatre (as Literature Honours requirement) any course on the Complementary Course List for Drama and Theatre fulfills this requirement

 

Additional courses from the Literature Option’s offerings. This category includes all the courses listed above except required courses, as well as the courses listed below. Note that any English course not on this list — such as courses in Cultural Studies — may not count towards your Literature program.

  • ENGL 394 Popular Literary Forms (The Historical Novel) (Fall)
  • ENGL 438 Studies in a Literary Form (Literary Fairy Tale) (Winter)
  • ENGL 464 Creative Writing: Poetry (Winter)
  • ENGL 512 Contemporary Studies in Literature and Culture (Solitude in Literature and Film) (Fall)

 

July 2012

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