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Literature Option

Theory and Criticism:

317: Theory of English Studies 1 – Philosophical Approaches (Fall)
319: Theory of English Studies 3 (Winter)
346: Materiality and Sociology of Text (Winter)
352: Theories of Difference (Winter)
460: Studies in Literary Theory – Theories of Comedy (Winter)

Major Author:

315: Shakespeare (Winter)
316: Milton (Fall)
345: Literature and Society – Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
403: Studies in the 18C – Swift (Fall)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author – Alice Munro (Winter)
410: Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature – Ondaatje and Atwood (Winter)
416: Studies in Shakespeare – Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
417: A Major English Poet – Byron (Winter)
418: A Major Modernist Writer – TS Eliot (Winter)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature – Alootook Ipellie (Fall)
503: Samuel Johnson (Fall)
516: Shakespeare – The Sonnets (Fall)

Literature Before 1800:

301: Earlier 18C Novel (Fall)
307: 17C Literature (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
316: Milton (Fall)
345: Literature and Society – Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
348: Great Writings of Europe (Fall)
403: Studies in the 18C – Swift (Fall)
416: Studies in Shakespeare – Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
503: 18C – Samuel Johnson (Fall)
516: Shakespeare – The Sonnets (Fall)

Canadian Literature:

229: Canadian Literature 2 (Winter)
313: Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre – Quebec Theatre (Fall)
327: Canadian Prose Fiction (Winter)
333: Development of Canadian Poetry (Fall)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author – Alice Munro (Winter)
410: Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature – Ondaatje and Atwood (Winter)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature – Alootook Ipellie (Fall)

American Literature:

225: American Literature 1 (Winter)
227: American Literature 3 – The American Novel after 1945 (Fall)
326: 19C American Prose (Fall)
418: A Major Modernist Writer – TS Eliot (Winter)
422: Studies in 19C American Literature – Poe, Hawthorne, Melville (Fall)

Backgrounds of English Literature:

348: Great Writings of Europe (Fall)

Medieval:

348: Great Writings of Europe (Fall)

Renaissance:

307: 17C Literature (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
316: Milton (Fall)
345: Literature and Society – Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
416: Studies in Shakespeare – Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
516: Shakespeare – The Sonnets (Fall)

18C Literature:

301: Earlier 18C Novel (Fall)
403: Studies in the 18C – Swift (Fall)
503: 18C – Samuel Johnson (Fall)

Romanticism:

332: Literature of the Romantic Period 2 (Fall)
417: A Major English Poet – Byron (Winter)
535: Literary Themes – Nonhuman Romanticisms (Winter)

Victorian:

312: Victorian and Edwardian Drama (Winter)
329: 19C English Novel 1 (Fall)
330: 19C English Novel 2 (Winter)
504: Victorian – Victorian Fiction and Feminist Narratology (Winter)
568: Topics in Dramatic Form – 19C Melodrama (Winter)

19C American:

225: American Literature 1 (Winter)
326: 19C American Prose (Fall)
422: Studies in 19C American Literature – Poe, Hawthorne, Melville (Fall)

Modern:

418: A Major Modernist Writer – TS Eliot (Winter)
505: 20C – Modernism out of the Archives (Winter)

Contemporary:

227: American Literature 3 – The American Novel after 1945 (Fall)
297: Postcolonial and World Literature in English (Winter)
320: Postcolonial Literature – Canadian-Asian and American-Asian Novel (Winter)
336: 20C Novel 2 – Postwar British Fiction (Fall)
408: The 20C – The Novel in South Asia (Winter)
415: Studies in 20C Literature 2 – Espionage Literature (Winter)
531: Literary Forms – The Graphic Novel (Fall)

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