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English (ENGL)

55 courses in the 1967–68 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.

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Faculty listed in 1967–68

W. U. Ober, B.A. (Washington and Lee), Ph.D. (Indiana) Professor and Chairman of Department

E. Birney, B.A. (British Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) Visiting Professor and Writer-in-Residence

D. R. Galloway, B.A., M.A. (Cambridge) - - - Professor C. F. MacRae, B.A. (Western), M.A. (McMaster).

Ph.D. (Toronto) - - - - - - - Professor W. K. Thomas, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) — - - - - Professor E. M. Boyd (Miss), A.B. (Grinnell), M.A. (Chicago).

Ph.D. (Columbia) (Roberts Fellow) - - Associate Professor L. A. Cummings, A.B. (Washington), M.A. (Missouri).

Ph.D. (Washington) - - - Associate Professor J A. I. Dust, M.A., Ph.D. (Illinois) - - - Associate Professor J. C. Gray, B.A. (Washington State), M.A. (Connecticut).

Ph.D. (Syracuse) - - - - - Associate Professor B. N. Honeyford, B.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) - - Associate Professor K. Ledbetter, A.B. (Central College, Mo.)

M.A., Ph.D. (Illinois) - - - - Associate Professor R. Levitsky (Mrs.), B.S.Ed. (Central Missouri S.C.).

M.S.Ed. (Illinois Normal), Ph.D. (Missouri) - Associate Professor J W. R. Martin, M.A., D. Litt. et Phil. (South Africa) - Associate Professor J. S. Stone, M.A. (British Columbia) - - Associate Professor

R. N. Gosselink, B.A. (Kansas), M.A., Ph.D. (Colorado) Assistant Professor

H. E. Haworth (Mrs.), B.A. (Rollins), M.A., Ph.D. (Illinois) - - - - Assistant Professor

P. M. Hinchcliffe, B.A. (British Columbia:), M.A. (Toronto) Assistant Professor J

H. M. Logan, A.B. (Franklin and Marshall).

Faculty listed in 1967–68

Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) - - - - Assistant Professor A. M. MacQuarrie, B.A. (Acadia), M.A. (Toronto) - Assistant Professor J E. F. Shields (Miss), B.A. (Chestnut Hill).

M.A. (Villanova), Ph.D. (Illinois) - - - Assistant Professor Sister M. Leon, S.S.N.D., B.A. (Toronto).

M.A. (Detroit) - - - - Assistant Professor J H. Tuyn, M.A. (Utrecht and Oxon.) - - Assistant Professor R P. D. Beam, B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (McMaster) - - - Lecturer C. H. DeRoo, B.A. (McMaster) - - oe - - Lecturer R. R. Dubinski, B.A., M.A. (Western) - - - - Lecturer M. J. Estok, B.A., M.A. (Saskatchewan) = - - - - Lecturer

C. J. Hayward, B.A. (Western) - - - - - Lecturer N. M. Hodge, B.A. (Waterloo) - - - - LecturerJ R. Lister (Mrs.), B.A., M.A. (Toronto) - - - - Lecturer M. G. Thysell (Mrs.), M.A. (Montana) - - - - Lecturer E. M. Uram, C.R., B.A. (Western), M.A. (St. Louis) - - Lecturer J

English Honours Programmes

For programmes in Honours English, Honours English and French, Honours English and German, Honours English and History, Honours English and Latin, Honours English and Philosophy. Honours English and Russian, and Honours English and Spanish, see pages 24-29.

English Major in General Arts

In Year I the prospective English major should select English 101, Philosophy 100 or equivalent, at least one of French 100, German 100, and Latin 100, and other subjects in accord with the general regulations.

In Year II the English major shall complete at least English 201 and 251.

In Year III he shall complete (a) English 301, (b) another English course chosen from the whole range of courses offered (except 225, 240, and 335), and (c) either English 345 (Senior Essay) or an Honours English course.

Note on numbering: English 101 and 300 are designed for both Honours and General students. Otherwise courses numbered 250-299, 350-399, and 450-499 are Honours courses, and all others are General courses.

Undergraduate Course Descriptions

Note: The number of hours or lectures shown after the course description is an attempt to indicate the “normal”; each instructor determines how often his particular class will meet.

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ENGL 15 English Literature

Designed for students in Applied Physics, Applied Chemistry, and Co-operative Mathematics, this course seeks to further the understanding and appreciation of the various types of English literature and of the humanistic values to be found in it. Since such understanding cannot be separated from the clear and effective communication of the ideas concerned, students are required to write a number of essays on topics related to the literature studied.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 50J Preliminary Year English

General literature and composition; the Ontario Grade 13 curriculum will be followed. 4 lectures..

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ENGL 101 The Art and Themes of Literature

A study, through representative works, of the major genres, modés, and methods of literature, and its principal recurring themes. For all first-year Arts students electing English.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 130 The Types of English Literature

An examination of the nature and forms of English literature, to be combined with practice in writing. (Primarily for Science students).

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 201 Masterpieces of English Literature, I

A study of the masterpieces of English literature from the Middle Ages to the latter part of the eighteenth century.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 210 The Novel

A study, through selected authors, of the principal techniques and movements in the development of the English novel from its beginning to the present day. 3 hours a week.

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ENGL 215 The Development of Drama to 1660

A study of the origins and development of English drama, with special concentration on the contribution of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 220 Drama from 1660

A study of the principal playwrights, plays, and movements in dramatic history from the re-opening of the theatres in 1660 to the present day.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 225 Principles of Dramatic Production

An introduction to directing, acting, and staging, with practical experience in the University’s Theatre of the Arts. 3 hours a week.

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ENGL 235 Selections from the Literature of Ideas

This course, which deals chiefly with the moral implications of political, philosophical, and scientific thought. is designed both to stimulate controversy and to improve the student’s ability to express himself in clear, organized fashion. Students are required to write essays and seminar papers on the topics discussed.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 240 The Use of English

The use and abuse of present day English as a spoken and written language. The search for criteria in evaluating different means of communication, including journalese and other technical jargon. Pronunciation, slang, colloquialisms. The practical analysis of structure, semantics, and imagery. Not open to Year I students.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 251 Literary Criticism: Its Origins and Practice

One part of the course is devoted to a study of the major classical critics and of the transmission of their writings through Italian and French critics. The other part provides a training in the application of critical principles to the works of literature.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 261 Old English and the History of the Language

An introduction to the Anglo-Saxon language and literature in their historical context, and a study of the development of the English language to modern times.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 270 Middle English, with Special Emphasis on Chaucer

A study of Middle English literature, partly in translation and partly in the original, with special emphasis on the works of Chaucer, which will be read in the original.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 280 Sixteenth-Century Non-Dramatic Literature

A study of the non-dramatic literature of sixteenth-century England. Special attention will be paid to Spenser’s Faerie Queene.

2 hours a week.

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ENGL 300 American Literature

A survey of the development of American literature from the beginning to the present time and an exploration of the themes of such major figures as Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Clemens, James, Eliot, and Faulkner.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 301 Masterpieces of English Literature, II

A study of the masterpieces of English literature from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. 3 hours a week.

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ENGL 310 Literature of Canada and the Commonwealth

A survey of Canadian and Australasian poetry and prose, with some consideration of the literatures, in English, from South Africa and the West Indies.

3 hours a week.

3303. American and Canadian Literature. The literature and literary history of British colonial America, of the Revolution and early American republic, and of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States and Canada, with some attention to cultural history, studied by means of lectures, reports, tutorials, quodlibets, papers, and tests.

3 meetings per week.

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ENGL 335 Creative Writing

Aimed at encouraging the student to develop his creative and critical potentials, the course consists of supervised practice, tutorials, and seminar discussions. Enrolment is limited and, in order to be accepted, an applicant must first submit a MS as evidence of his ability to profit from the course.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 345 Supervision of Senior Essay

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 350 Seventeenth-Century Non-Dramatic Literature

A study of the nondramatic literature of the Jacobean, Caroline, and Interregnum periods, with special attention to Milton’s major works.

2 hours a week.

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ENGL 360 Drama to 1642

The rise of the drama and dramatic form; the work and influence of Shakespeare’s predecessors; the life and works of Shakespeare; the post-Shakespearean drama to the closing of the theatres.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 370 The Augustan Age

An historical and critical study, in seminars, of the drama, poetry, novels, and other writings of the age from Dryden to Burns. 3 hours a week.

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ENGL 380 The Romantic Movement

A critical study, in seminars, of the principles and practice of the English Romantic authors (poets, novelists, and essayists) from Blake to Keats.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 390 Beowulf

A literary and linguistic study of the Old English epic Beowulf (and the Finnsburg Fragment) with an investigation of its origins in history and mythology.

Prerequisite: English 261.

2 hours a week.

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ENGL 451 Literature of the Victorian Age

An historical and critical study of the writers in the period between the Romantic era and the rise of characteristically twentieth-century literature; with special emphasis on the major poets (Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold), on the more important novelists (e.g., Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot) and on writers of general and critical prose works of lasting significance (e.g., Newman, Ruskin, Mill, Huxley).

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 460 Twentieth-Century British Literature

A critical study of works by Shaw, Yeats, Eliot, James, Conrad, Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and others of the modern period. 3 hours a week.

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ENGL 470 History of Literary Criticism

A study in seminars of the literary criticism of the four great ancients and of English writers from the Elizabethans to the present day.

2 hours a week.

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ENGL 475 Linguistics and English Grammar

An interpretation of linguistics and its application in the English classroom to the study of grammar and language. The course will provide an introduction to descriptive and historical linguistics and the principles of inguistic analysis. It will include an evaluation of English grammars ranging from the traditional to the structural and transformational-generative.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 480 Senior Seminar

Designed for fourth-year students in the Honours English program or in programs combining Honours English with a fraternal discipline, this course provides a study in depth of a selected author or group of authors. Open also to superior third-year General students.

3 hours a week.

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ENGL 495 Supervision of Senior Honours Essay

3 hours a week.

Graduate Course Descriptions

The Department of English offers courses leading to the degree Master of Arts and to the degree Master of Philosophy. (The departmental graduate brochure provides details of the requirements for these degrees.) The courses marked with a dagger are tentatively scheduled for the session 1967-68.

+601. Studies in Bibliographic Method (Half course). Work on_ individual bibliographic problems, with a study of book manufacture, manuscripts and their relation to the printed text, editorial problems, and literary forgeries. (No Icttcr gradc).

+603. Practical Criticism (Half course). Instruction and supervised practice in the art of reading closely, interpreting, and evaluating. (No letter grade).

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ENGL 605 Beowulf (Half course)

A study of Beowulf as a work of literature. A knowledge of Old English is a prerequisite for admission to this course.

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ENGL 607 Chaucer (Full course)

A study of the works of Chaucer, with emphasis on The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

+610. Spenser (Half course). A study of the works of Spenser, with emphasis on The Faerie Queene.

+615. Shakespeare I (Full course). A study of the comedies, problem plays, and poems.

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ENGL 616 Shakespeare II (Full course)

A study of the histories and tragedies.

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ENGL 620 Jacobean Drama (Half course)

A study of selected dramatic works of Jonson, Webster, and Ford.

+622. Metaphysical and Cavalier Poets (Half course). A study of their theory and practice.

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ENGL 625 Milton (Full course)

A study of the poetry of Milton. Some attention will be given to selected prose works.

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ENGL 627 Drama of the Restoration (Half course)

The chief comedies and tragedies of the period 1660-1707.

+630. Satire (Full course). A study of the early development of satire, an intensive examination of its flowering in the Restoration and Augustan periods, and a survey of the contributions made to it by such later writers as Burns, Byron, Peacock, Huxley, Orwell, and Auden. Attention will be paid to varying purposes, to the genesis of major works, and especially to methods and devices.

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ENGL 632 The Periodical Essay in the Eighteenth Century (Half course)

A study of the origins of the literary periodical essay, an intensive examination of The Spectator, and a survey of the contributions to the genre made by such later writers as Johnson and Goldsmith.

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ENGL 635 Fielding (Half course)

A study of a few of Fielding’s plays for the dramatic techniques he carried over to the novel, and a close examination of his various works of fiction: their genesis, their art forms, and their methods.

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ENGL 636 Johnson and his Circle (Half course)

A study of the literary theories, writings, and relations of Johnson, Boswell, and their circle.

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ENGL 638 Sterne and Smollett (Half course)

A study of a selection of their writings.

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ENGL 639 Blake (Half course)

A study of his theories and practice.

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ENGL 640 Wordsworth and Coleridge (Full course)

A study of the poetry and prose of Wordsworth and Coleridge, with emphasis on the period of close association of the two poets.

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ENGL 642 Shelley (Half course)

A study of the poetry and prose of Shelley. +643. Keats (Half course). A study of the poetry and letters of Keats.

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ENGL 645 Byron (Half course)

A study of the poetry of Byron, with emphasis on Don Juan.

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ENGL 647 Jane Austen: Novelist (Half course)

Her place in the development of the novel; her work in relation to the Romantic Revival; an analysis of Jane Austen criticism.

+650. Studies in Victorian Poetry (Full course). A complete survey of the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold, in relation to the thought of. the Victorian Age.

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ENGL 652 Expository Prose of the Victorian Age (Full course)

Reading, study, and discussion of the major prose works of Carlyle, Newman, Ruskin, Arnold, Mill, and Huxley, with selected readings from Macaulay, Pater, and Stevenson.

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ENGL 654 Late Victorian Poets (Full course.) A study of the poetry of Swinburne, D. G. Rossetti, Meredith, Morris, Clough, and the poets of the 1890's

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ENGL 656 The Victorian Novel (Full course)

A study of the principal works of such . novelists as Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy.

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ENGL 660 Antebellum American Literature (Full course)

After some attention to the colonial beginnings, the course will centre on such authors as Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman.

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ENGL 665 The Rise of Realism in American Literature (Full course)

A study of the works of such authors as Dickinson, Howells, Crane, Twain, and James.

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ENGL 670 The Twentieth-Century British Novel (Full course)

A study of the works of such novelists as James, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Forster, and Woolf.

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ENGL 672 Twentieth-Century British Poetry (Full course)

A study of the works of such poets as Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Lawrence, Owen, and Auden.

+673. Yeats (Half course). A study of his poetry, drama, and prose.

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ENGL 677 Twentieth-Century Drama (Full course)

A study of the major drama of the twentieth century.

+680. Twentieth-Century American Fiction (Half course). A study of the works of such authors as Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos, and Steinbeck.

+682. Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Half course). A study of the works of such poets as Frost, Sandburg, Jeffers, Eliot, and Stevens.

+685. Studies in Canadian History and Letters (Full course, given in conjunction with the History Department.) A study of the major works and movements in Canadian literature, seen in the context of social and political developments.

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ENGL 687 Studies in Australian Poetry (Half course)

A study of the works of the major Australian pocts, seen in the context of Australian literary history as a whole and compared with Canadian literary development.

1695. Special Studies (Half course). Studies in a specific author, genre, or period.

+696. Special Studies (Full course). Studies in a specific author, genre, or period.

1697. M.A. Thesis.

1698. M.Phil. Thesis.

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