114 courses in the 1980–81 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Department of English
Associate Professor, Chairman of Department W. R. Macnaughton, BA (Toronto), MA, PhD (Wisconsin)
Professor, Associate Chairman and Undergraduate Officer W. R. Martin, BA, MA, D Litt et Phil (South Africa)
Associate Professor and Graduate Officer G. E. Slethaug, BA (Pacific Lutheran), MA, PhD (Nebraska)
Professor and Associate Dean, Special Programmes K. L. Ledbetter, AB (Central College, Mo.), MA, PhD (Illinois)
Professors
L. A. Cummings’, AB (Washington), AM (Missouri), PhD (Washington)
J. Gold, BA (Birmingham), PhD (Wisconsin)
J.C. Gray, BA (Washington State), MA (Connecticut), PhD (Syracuse)
G. R. Hibbard, BA, MA (London)
W. U. Ober, BA (Washington and Lee), PhD (Indiana)
W. K. Thomas, MA, PhD (Toronto)
H. Tuyn, MA (Utrecht and Oxon), Docteur de Université de Paris R
Associate Professors P. D. Beam, BA (Waterloo), MA (McMaster), PhD (Toronto) R. R. Dubinski, BA, MA (W. Ont.), PhD (Toronto) A. |. Dust, MA, PhD (Iilinois) H. B. Ellis, BA (Rollins), MA, PhD (Illinois) R. N. Gosselink, BA (Kansas), MA, PhD (Colorado) P.M. Hinchcliffe, BA (Br. Col), MA, PhD (Toronto) J N. C. Hultin, BA (Concordia), MA (Chicago), PhD (Johns Hopkins) D. R. Letson, BA (Waterloo), MA (McMaster), PhD (Toronto)J R. Lister, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto) H. M. Logan, AB (Franklin and Marshall), PhD (Pennsylvania) E. P. McCormack, MA (Glasgow), PhD (Manitoba)J J.S. North, BA, MA (Br. Col.), PhD (Alberta) E. F. Shields, BA (Chestnut Hill), MA (Villanova), PhD (IMinois) J.S. Stone, BA, MA (Br. Col.)
Assistant Professors
S. Fogel, BA (Carleton), MA (Br. Col.), PhD (Purdue)J M. A. Gerhardstein, MA (Montana), PhD (lowa)
C. E. McGee, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)!
S. E. McMullin, BA, MA (Carleton), PhD (Dalhousie)
Lecturers
L. Dorney, BA, MA (Louisville)J (part-time)
J. Miller, BA, BLS (McGill), MA, MPhil (Waterloo)R (part-time)
Jointly appointed from Architecture
For courses in Drama, see Drama and Theatre Arts Group in this Chapter.
Although the Department of English provides advisors to help students to choose their programmes, to arrange their courses and to conform with the University, Faculty, and departmental regulations, students are urged to study the Calendar very carefully because they are themselves responsible for failure to abide by these regulations.
Note 1
W. K. Thomas’s Correct Form of Essay Writing is the Official style sheet for aif undergraduate English courses.
Note 2
The “norma!” number of lectures per week in each course is three; however, each instructor determines how often his particular class will meet.
Note 3
in all English courses, emphasis will be placed on student essays written in connection with the reading.
Course Descriptions
Consult the time-table for an up-to-date list of courses offered in 1980-81.
Group One
1) Courses in this group count towards a degree as electives in any programme in the University. None of them, however, may be counted as an English Major credit; in other words, none of them fulfills a core requirement for a General or an Honours programme in Ehglish.
A) Courses in Group 1(A) are primarily concerned with assisting students to improve their writing.
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The course teaches the construction of the expository essay with attention to the structure of good paragraphs, to techniques of putting the essay together, and to the nature of the language. Ten to twelve short writing assignments are required.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
The course teaches the construction of the persuasive essay, with attention to the elements of logical thinking, to the techniques of successful persuasaion, and to the demands of the library research paper. Six to eight writing assignments are required.
Prereq: Eng! 109
Instruction provided in basic grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, elements of composition and essay writing including focus on theme, development of central idea, exposition and argumentation. Minimum of four hours of instruction each week with additional tutorial hours as required. Prereq: Open only to students whose maternal language is not English and who lack language mastery sufficient for admission to other introductory English language courses.
Provides further opportunities for serious students of writing to study and to practise descriptive, expository, argumentative, and persuasive writing. In addition to lectures, there are workshop sessions in which student writing is discussed.
Prereq: Second-year standing or above
The many functions of the report - an orderly and objective communication of factual information which serves some specific purpose - are taught. Students will receive practice in research, in organization, and in writing many kinds of reports. Prereq: Second-year standing or above
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Aimed at encouraging students to develop their creative and critical potentials, the course consists of supervised practice, tutorials, and seminar discussions.
1B)
The course is designed to improve the reading and writing of students from all disciplines. In order to develop clarity of thought and critical awareness, students will identify and study in several media the various ends that are served by language: objective reporting; persuasion; argument; and emotional, social, and artistic expression. About eight written exercises are assigned.
Also offered at Renison College
A continuation of Engl 150. From a basis of simple semantics and elementary logic, students will proceed to examine more complex language in fiction and other forms of literature. About six written exercises are assigned.
Prereq: Engi 150
Also offered at Renison College
The use and abuse of spoken and written English. The study and evaluation of language as it is used for various purposes (e.g. colloquial, scientific, legal, political, commercial, journalistic, literary) in order to increase critical awareness and help students to write clearly and effectively themselves.
Course Descriptions English
A continuation of Engl 140R. The study of factual, emotive, scientific and imaginative writing; relevance, context; meaning, tone, feeling and intention.
Prereq: Engl 140R
The uses of literacy and the functions of language as acquired in Eng! 140R/141R. These will be applied to the more advanced form of the literary and critical assignment essay, involving comparison, evaluation and exposition.
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An examination of examples of the greatest literature in English and its relation to the periods of its origin. Figures such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Blake, Keats, Tennyson, Dickens and T.S. Eliot will be examined.
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Different kinds of literature will be explored so as to discover how the shape of a literary work contributes to its meaning. Students will read ballad, lyric, and narrative poetry; classic tragedy and comedy and absurdist, existential and expressionist plays; novels and short Stories.
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A study of human excellence in thought and action embodied in representative men and women, as seen through works of literature.
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This course will attempt to acquaint the student with forms of the literary artist’s moral vision of man in “Utopian” writings. It will involve an examination of the role of the imagination in helping to inform and embody cultural ideas of various periods.
Works in English literature from its beginnings are selected for their bearings on questions of morality.
Engl 1080 The Quest Theme in Literature Not offered in 1980-81.
A study of the nature and role of women in British, Canadian, and American literature. Works by both men and women will be studied in which women are seen in such forms as earth mothers, people, sex objects, and bitches.
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A study of various works of literature in which the protagonist is a rebel against existing norms. The course will examine a number of rebel types and concepts, moral implications and final outcomes either in successful realization or in tragic defeat. Also offered at St. Jerome’s College.
English 108H 0.5
Isolation and Alienation
The study of a variety of works centering on the theme of man in crisis, the stress being on the individual at variance with his inner self, his fellow man, or his world. The course will discuss the process in which wisdom and maturity are gained as the ultimate products of suffering.
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Designed for students in all faculties, the course examines some of Shakespeare's comedies, history plays, and tragedies. Shakespeare’s variety and flexibility in developing characters and dramatic structures are stressed, as are significant themes. No previous work in Shakespeare is required.
Course Descriptions 305 English
This course deals with the history and techniques of the short story with emphasis upon works by such British, American and Canadian writers as Henry James, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, and Alice Munro.
The study of major themes, stories, myths, and characters of the Old and New Testaments of the King James Bible, and their influence on other English literature.
An introduction to the scope and aims of folklore, together with a survey of the major types of folklore in the English tradition from nations of the Englishspeaking world. Topics such as oral literature, myth, legend, tale, and marchen will be discussed.
Similar to 203 but dealing with folk-drama, ballads, songs, medicines, riddles, chants, proverbs, and charms.
The Canadian short story, from its beginnings - in the bush, in the north, on the land, in the small towns - through the struggles of an urbanizing society to the present. Students will be expected to work in some depth with individual authors..
Note R Courses are administered by Renison College.
This course will deal with the history and forms of fantasy written for adults. In considering the genre, related forms like the romance, the fairy tale, the fable, and the gothic horror story will be discussed. Authors such as Morris, C. S. Lewis, Tolkien, Williams, and White will be studied.
Various examples drawn, for instance, from Utopian and anti-Utopian science fiction, social science fiction, “gadget” science fiction, parapsychology, and alternate worlds and beings, will be considered. Some attention will be given to the historical development of the genre.
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This course will deal with classic works of children’s literature, including fantasy written primarily for children. Selections from such authors as Kipling, Woolf, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Kenneth Grahame, and Thurber will be studied.
The mode of satire in the fiction, drama, poetry and discourse of the 20th century. Particular attention to the literary works of Waugh, Huxley, Orwell, Parker, Heller, Hiebert, and a dramatist of the absurd, but also attention to satiric cartoons and nightclub satire.
A study of such major 20th-century women writers as Woolf, Hellman, Murdoch, McCarthy, Lessing, Laurence, Plath and Atwood. Emphasis wil! be on the concerns of these writers with the roles of women, the writer's search for new meanings, and their innovations in literary forms.
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The story of Arthur and his knights of the Round Table will be discussed as it is treated at various times in. various works and genres. Such matters will be considered as the character of Arthur, the concept of Camelot, and the Fellowship of the Round Table.
The history and characteristics of the ‘‘detective novel,” the ‘novel of crime,” and the “thriller.” Attention will also be given to the novel of intrigue and espionage. Such authors as Poe, Collins, Doyle, Chesterton, Hammett, Buchan, Greene, Deighton, and Le Carre will be discussed. The course includes the examination of critical approaches to the form of detective fiction.
Course Descriptions
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The novel, by its nature, constitutes an attempt to formulate and to interpret the bewildering human experience. This course undertakes an exploration of the forms that attempt can take. British, Canadian, and American novels will be studied. The two halves of the course may be taken independently.
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A study of the novel in English from its beginnings to the late 19th century.
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A study of the novel in English from the late 19th century to the present.
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The course will Survey a theme which is significant to the understanding of the Canadian literary mind. Topics will vary from section to section.
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The course will provide a survey of literature written about a distinctive region of Canada.
A study of the major narrative forms in English poetry including the ballad, epic, mock epic, and dramatic monologue.
A study of the development of various lyric forms (e.g. erotic, religious), the ode, elegy, meditativedescriptive verse, and perhaps other forms.
A study of the origins and development of English drama, with special concentration on 16th-century non-Shakespearean drama.
(Cross-listed with Drama 252)
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. (Cross-listed with Drama 2593).
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The study and practice of skills needed for a close, analytical reading of literary texts and for the writing of critical analyses on them; studies of theories concerning literature and literary criticism.
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An introduction to the literature and language of pre-
Conquest England. The principal literary methods, themes, and types of English literature up to the 12th century constitute the material of study in this course.
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A study of Middle English literature with special emphasis on the work of Geoffrey Chaucer. Also offered at St. Jerome's College
A survey of Australian poetry and prose, with some consideration of the literatures, in English, from South Africa and the West Indies.
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A study of Canadian prose and verse to 1920, with particular attention to the poetry of the School of the Sixties and to the historical.and idyllic novels of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Poetry in Canada from E. J. Pratt and A. J. M. Smith to Leonard Cohen.
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Course Descriptions 307 English
The Canadian novel since the appearance of Morley Callaghan, with brief consideration of the essay and short story during the period.
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A study of plays by such dramatists as Merrill Denison, Robertson Davies, Gratien Gélinas (in translation), James Reaney, John Coulter, George Ryga, and Michel Tremblay (in translation). Background for 20th-century drama will be provided in lectures.
(Cross-listed with Drama 351)
A study of the principal writers of prose and of lyric and narrative poetry in England during and immediately before the reign of Elizabeth |. Reserved for special attention is Spenser’s epic poem glorifying Elizabeth 1 and England - The Faerie Queene.
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A study of the principal writers of prose and of lyric and narrative poetry in England during and immediately before the reign of Elizabeth I.
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The continuation of English 330A. Reserved for special attention is Spenser's epic poem glorifying England and Elizabeth | - The Faerie Queene. Prereq: 330A or consent of instructor.
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The meaning of America - the myth, the dream, and the reality - as experienced through its major literary works. Sin, guilt, madness, mysticism, and grace: the search for fulfillment and peace by such writers as Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, and Crane.
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Approaches to reality amid the confusion and uncertainty of 20th-century America. Emphasis on such major writers as Faulkner, Miller, and Cummings.
Prereq: Eng! 343
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Eng] 345/346/347 .
Studies in American Literature
(Usually only one or two courses from this series are offered each year.)
The Southern Myth: its origins in early literature, its flowering and ruin, as seen by white and black writers, including Twain, Faulkner, Welty, Styron, Grau, O’Connor, Wright, and Ellison.
Prereq: Engi 343 or consent of instructor.
* Special emphasis will be given to the works of two or three major American novelists such as Herman Melville and William Faulkner.
Prereq: Engi 343 or consent of instructor.
A study of American Literature from World War 2 to the present.
Prereq: Eng! 343 or consent of instructor
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Special attention will be given to the poetry of Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell and to the prose works of Bacon, Burton, and Browne. Approximately half the course will be devoted to an intensive study of Milton’s English poetry and a selection of his prose works.
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A study of the plays written prior to 1599-1600, excluding Julius Caesar.
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Course Descriptions English
A study of the plays written after 1599-1600, including Julius Caesar.
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Designed to provide a study in depth of problems and/or authors selected by the instructor. Students interested in initiating such courses are encouraged to do so by bringing their ideas to the attention of individual instructors.
Prereq: consent of instructor.
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The process of linguistic change as exemplified in the development of the English language from its origins in Indo-European and Germanic through modern dialects. Traditional, structural and generative approaches will be employed.
Linguistics and its application to the study of grammar and language. Included are 1) an introduction to descriptive and historical linguistics and the principles of linguistic analysis and 2) an evaluation of English grammars ranging from the traditional to the structural and transformationalgenerative.
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A survey of writing in an age of anxiety from the psychoanalytic novel to the theatre of the absurd. The concept of the anti-hero in the various approaches. Satirical, emotional and intellectual writing as studied in novels and plays by Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and Harold Pinter.
A continuation of topics covered in Eng! 386R.
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The course explores the origin, growth, and transformation of philosophical ideas and of literary themes, motifs, genres, forms, and movements from the beginning of English titerature to the present. Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
A study of English literature from 1660 to 1798: the comedy of the Restoration; satire of Dryden, Swift, and Pope; the probing of mores and manners by Pope and Johnson; the emergence of the novel with Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne; and the transformation from classicism to romanticism. Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
The Restoration comedy of manners, heroic and high tragedy, poetry of the court wits and other amused commentators on society, and the major writings of Dryden, Swift, Addison, Defoe, and the early Pope. Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
The probing of mores and manners by Pope and Johnson, the emergence of the novel with Fielding and Sterne, and the transformation (in ‘the age of sensibility’) of literary attitudes and practice from classicism to romanticism.
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An intensive study of the work of two or three major Canadian authors. Writers who may be studied include Morley Callaghan, F. P. Grove, Robertson Davies, A. M. Klein, Thomas Haliburton, Irving Layton, Margaret Atwood, and Margaret Laurence. Prereq: Consent of instructor
An historical and critical study of the principles and practice of the English Romantic authors from Blake to Keats, with primary emphasis on poetry.
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Course Descriptions 309 English
An historicaal and critical study with emphasis on the major poets (Browning, Tennyson, Arnold), novelists (Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot), and essayists (Newman, Ruskin, Mill, Huxtey). Provision will be made for students who wish to study other writers such as Hopkins, Swinburne, Carroll, Morris, or Pater.
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A study of the major writers in British Literature from 1885 to World War 2, with special emphasis on such writers as Shaw, Yeats, Eliot, Conrad, Joyce, and Lawrence.
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A study of works by such writers as Shaw, Conrad, and Yeats.
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A study of works by such writers as James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and T. S. Eliot.
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