ENGL 1540 E01—Academic Reading and Writing in English
Tuesdays and Thursdays 16:00 to 17:30
Instructor: Professor G. Schell
Office: Parker Building, L727
Classroom: L712
Telephone: 675-1151, ext. 4374
Email: gschell@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
ENGL 1540 explores the relationship between reading and writing at a basic academic level. The course helps students to develop skills essential to essay-writing and critical reading. Some emphasis is also placed on practical exercise in diction, grammar, and idioms. This course is designed to meet the needs of English-speaking students who require further preparation for university-level reading and writing. In the first week of classes, students will be required to demonstrate an appropriate level of competency in reading and writing English. This course does not count for ENGL credit. Enrollment is limited to twenty students. (6 credits)
Text Required:
Barnet, Sylvan, et al. the Practical Guide to Writing, 2nd ed. Pearson, 2006.
ENGL 1550EL01—Academic Reading and Writing in English
Tuesdays and Thursdays 16:00 to 17:30
Instructor: Professor L. Lesher
Office: Parker Building, L727
Classroom: L620
Telephone: 675-1151, ext. 4339
Email: llesher@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: By appointment
Designed to meet the needs of students whose first language is not English, ENGL 1550 explores the relationship between reading and writing at a basic academic level. The course helps students to develop skills essential to essay-writing and critical reading. Some emphasis is also placed on practical exercise in diction, grammar, and idioms. In the first week of classes, students will be required to demonstrate an appropriate level of competency in reading and writing English. This course does not count for ENGL credit. Enrollment is limited to twenty students. (6 credits)
Text Required:
May, Carole Anne. Spotlight on Paragraph and Essay Skills. Prentice Hall, 2004.
OR
ENGL 1550EL02—Academic Reading and Writing in English
Mondays 19:00 to 22:00
Instructor: Professor R. Cooper
Office: Parker Building, L727
Classroom: L516
Telephone: 675-1151 x 4339
Email: rcooper@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: By appointment
ENGL 1705EL01 to EL09—Introduction to English and Writing Studies
Instructors: Various - see below
Office: Parker Building, L727 (except where noted)
Tel: 675-1151, ext. 4339
Office Hours: By appointment
In this course, students will learn to read critically and to write effective arguments about literature. Since writing is a way of thinking and understanding, this course will be concerned with the writing process as well as the written product. Therefore, students will write a great deal, revising ideas and interpretations as they develop. The first part of the course will introduce students to a range of work in English studies, including fiction, poetry, drama, non-fictional prose, and film. The second part of the course will explore a specific topic, genre or critical approach in more depth and will involve students in library research. Enrolment is limited to 25 students per section. (6 credits)
ENGL 1705E01 Ryan Classroom C201 T 19:00-22:00
ENGL 1705E02 TBA Classroom C201 T-TH 16:00-17:30
ENGL 1705E03 Carter Classroom L620 M 15:00-18:00
ENGL 1705E04 Debevc Moroz Classroom C201 M-W 15:00-16:30 (Office L626)
ENGL 1705E05 LaFramboise Classroom L516 T-TH 11:30-13:00
ENGL 1705E06 MacCoubrey Classroom J234 M 18:00-21:00
ENGL 1705E07 Schell Classroom L810 M-W 16:30-18:00
ENGL 1705E08 MacCoubrey Classroom C202 M-W 13:30-15:00
ENGL 1705E09 LaFramboise Classroom C202 T-TH 8:30-10:00
ENGL 2005E01—Literatures in English
Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30 to 10:00
Instructor: Dr. Michael D'Arcy
Office: L714
Classroom: C101
Telephone: 675-1151, ext. 4374
Email: TBA
Office Hours: TBA
OR
ENGL 2005E02—Literatures in English
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 10:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Dr. Susan Paterson Glover
Office: Parker Building, L713
Classroom: C203
Telephone: 675-1151, ext. 4370
Email: sglover@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
OR
ENGL 2005E03—Literatures in English
Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30 to 13:00
Instructor: Dr. Michael D'Arcy
Office: L714
Classroom: C101
Telephone: 675-1151, ext. 4374
Email: TBA
Office Hours: TBA
This course will give an overview of both the chronological and geographic scope of writing in English. In the first part, we will examine a set of British texts and writers that have been understood as forming a 'canon' of English literature. This group will include Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Johnson, Brontë, and Tennyson. In the second part, we will consider texts and writers from regions formerly colonized by Britain and the ways in which they adopt, adapt, and answer that tradition. Areas included will be Ireland, Australia/New Zealand, the Caribbean, and Africa. From its earliest beginnings, English literature has reflected and responded to elements of exile, migration, and changing language. Throughout the course, we will entertain questions such as: how did literary genres develop? what makes a national literature? how are language and power related? And how do nations, communities, and individuals develop a voice of literary expression? (6 credits)
Texts Required
Longman Anthology of British Literature, 2nd Compact Edition, Vols A and B, Pearson, 2004.
Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms, 8th ed. Thomson, 2005.
Achebe, C. Things Fall Apart. Knopf, 1995.
Brontë, A. Wuthering Heights. World Classics, OUP, 1998.
Friel, Brian. Translations. Faber, 1981.
Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.
Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing. Signet.
Silko, Leslie. Ceremony. Penguin.
Texts Recommended
Gibaldi, Joseph. The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition. New York: 2003.
The Oxford English Dictionary (Concise or Canadian edition)
FILM 2005E01—Film Foundations: Technique, Theory, and History
Tuesday 18:00 to 22:00 (4 hours)
Instructor: Dr. H.F. Cheu
Office: Parker Building, L708
Classroom: C309
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4354
Email: hcheu@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: By appointment.
As a foundation for the Film Stream, this course introduces the basic technical and interpretative knowledge for film studies. In order to expose students to various forms and styles of filmmaking, film selections include a variety of independent and international works as well as a selection of mainstream American productions. Canadian cinema (both French and English) will also be studied as a special topic.
Text Required:
Pramaggiore, Maria & Tom Wallis. Film: A Critical Introduction, Pearson.
ENGL 2095EL01—English Literature of the 18th Century (Group 2)
Tuesdays 16:00 to 19:00
Instructor: Dr. Susan Paterson Glover
Office: Parker Building, L713
Classroom: C207
Telephone: 675-1151, ext. 4370
Email: sglover@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
This course covers a broad sweep, from the Restoration of 1660 to the revolutions that marked the close of the eighteenth century. The period includes the great age of satire, the development of a print culture, including the novel, and the effect of enlightenment thought on our relations to nature and to the self. Through a range of readings in poetry, prose, drama, and fiction, we will look at the elements of politics, gender, religion, and social change shaping literary development in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
Texts Required:
Black, Joseph et al. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century. Broadview, 2006.
Bage, Robert. Hermsprong: or Man He Is Not. Broadview, 2002.
Brooke, Frances. The History of Emily Montague. M & S, 1995.
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones. Oxford World's Classics, 1998.
ENGL 2106EL01—Western Literature I: Backgrounds to English Literature
Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30 to 10:00 (Fall Term)
Instructor: Dr. Helena Debevc Moroz
Office: Parker Building, L611
Classroom: C102
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4106
Email: hdebevc@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
This course is a study (in translation) of selected works of various Western literatures which have been influential on English literature. It is designed primarily for English literature students and those with an interest in European literature. A selection of works from classical antiquity to the Renaissance will be covered.
Selections from works of the following authors will be studied: Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, selected passages from the New Testament, Dante, Machiavelli.
Text Required:
Lawall, Sarah, et al. Eds. The Norton Anthology of Western Literature. 8th edition. Vol. 1. Norton. 2005.
ENGL 2255 EL01—A Survey of Canadian Literature (Group 4)
Wednesdays 15:00 to 18:00
Instructor: Dr. Tom Gerry
Office: L709
Classroom: L516
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4344
Email: tgerry@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
To help students appreciate the range and excellence of Canadian literature, this course involves them in reading through selections of non-fictional prose, fiction and poetry from a contemporary anthology, discussing the works, and writing responses to them.
Students will be required to attend a performance at the Sudbury Theatre Centre of Heat Wave by Michel Marc Bouchard (February 8 to 25, 2007), in order to prepare a review of it.
Text Required
Bennett, Donna, and Russell Brown, eds. A New Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. Oxford University Press, 2002.
ENGL 2465EL01—The Drama to 1642 (Group 1)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30–13:00
Instructor: Professor Ernst Gerhardt
Office: L711
Classroom: C202
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 3220
Email: egerhardt@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
In this course we will study a number of medieval and renaissance English plays, including mystery plays, morality plays, interludes, tragedies, comedies, and closet plays. We will study these dramatic texts with three aims in mind: to develop our own critical reading practices and to present our own critical readings of them; to situate the situate the texts’ themes, language, and performance both within the plays’ contemporary and historical contexts; and to consider the plays in relation to issues such as staging conventions, printing practices, and the theater’s role in medieval and early modern England.
Text Required
Bevington, David. English Renaissance Drama. Norton: 2002.
Walter, Greg. Medieval Drama. Blackwell Publishers.
ENGL 2515EL01—Composition and Rhetorical Theory
Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30 to 10:00
Instructor: Professor Bruce Dadey
Office: Parker Building, L707
Classroom: C201
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4341
Email: bdadey@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
This course will introduce you to some basic theoretical principles of composition and rhetoric as they apply both to your own writing and speaking, and to the communication practices of others. We will be exploring various facets of composition from the perspectives of both classical rhetoric and contemporary composition theory, and you will be writing assignments that require you to apply the knowledge you have gained through this exploration. By the end of the course, you will have a better understanding of how composition occurs and what it entails, and of the relationship between classical and modern theories of composition.
Texts Required
Corbett, Edward P. J. and Robert J. Connors. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. 4th ed. Oxford: OUP, 1999.
Online readings and a printed course kit.
ENGL 2527EL01—Rhetorical Criticism
Tuesdays 19:00 to 22:00 (Fall Term)
Instructor: Dr. Philippa Spoel
Office: Parker Building, L715
Classroom: L810
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4345
Email: pspoel@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
This course introduces students to foundational perspectives on rhetoric developed by writers and teachers in Ancient Greece and Rome, such as the work of the Sophists, Isocrates, Plato, Cicero, and Quintilian. Working from these foundations, the course will also explore how the classical tradition of rhetoric has been revisited and challenged by the theory and practice of women’s rhetoric.
Texts Required
Foss, Sonja K. Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration & Practice, 3rd ed. Waveland Press.
ENGL 2535EL01—Shakespeare (Group 1)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 14:30 to 16:00
Instructor: Professor Ernst Gerhardt
Office: Parker Building, L711
Classroom: J234
Phone: 675-1151
Email: egerhardt@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
In this course we will survey a range of Shakespeare’s plays and some of his poetry. We will study the complexities of Shakespeare’s texts with three aims in mind: to develop and present our own critical readings of them; to situate their themes and language with those of texts written by Shakespeare’s contemporaries; and to consider the plays in relation to issues such as staging conventions, costumes, printing practices, and the theater’s role in Elizabethan England.
Text Required
Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. The Norton Shakespeare. Norton.
ENGL 3135EL01—Victorian Literature (Group 2)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 13:00 to 14:30
Instructor: Dr. Marilyn Orr
Office: L720
Classroom: C206
Telephone: 675-1151, ext. 4348
Email: morr@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
We will study representative texts—poetry, essays, fiction, and drama—of the nineteenth century in the context of contemporary ideas on issues such as religion, science, work, and gender. A particular focus will be examining Victorian formulations of and responses to social and philosophical questions—from population growth to environmental pollution, from the value of art to the miseries and consolations of mortality--that continue to perplex humankind.
Texts Required
Abrams, H.G., ed. Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age, Vol. E, 8th Edition. Norton.
OR
M. H. Abrams, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. The Major Authors.
Eliot, George. Felix Holt the Radical. Penguin.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oxford.
FILM 3207EL01—Film Theory
Mondays 18:00 to 22:00
Instructor: Dr. Hoi Cheu
Office: Parker Building, L708
Classroom: C205
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4354
Email: hcheu@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: By appointment.
An introduction to the basics of classical film theory, focusing particularly on the discourse between formalism and realism, and the philosophical question of the nature of film art by such authors as Sergei Eisenstein, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin, Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, etc. The second half of the course introduces spectatorship theories in terms of ideology and culture.
Texts Required: TBA
ENGL 3365EL01—Major American Writers of the 18th and 19th Century (Group 4)
Wednesdays 18:00 to 21:00
Instructor: Professor Bruce Dadey
Office: Parker Building, L707
Classroom: C207
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4341
Email: bdadey@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
In this course we will be examining the development of American literature from its earliest beginnings in Native American orature and the literature of exploration to the end of the seminal period that is called the American renaissance (roughly 1865). During the course, we will be looking at a broad variety of genres, including creation tales, letters, sermons, biographies, histories, essays and, of course, poetry and novels. Our general aims will be to understand how the American literary tradition grew and was defined, how it relates to American history and politics, and how it participated in the construction of an American national identity.
Texts Required
Baym, Nina, gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vols. A and B. New York: Norton, 2003.
(ISBN 0-393-97793-5; the ISBN is for a package set that includes both volumes.)
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. 2nd ed. Ed. Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford. New York: Norton, 2002.
Recommended Text
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Projects. 6th ed. New York: MLA, 2003.
ENGL 3435EL01—20th-Century Poetry (Group 3)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 to 11:30
Instructor: Dr. Laurence Steven
Office: Parker Building, L732
Classroom: C102
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4353
Email: lsteven@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: By appointment.
A study of major developments in poetry from the turn of the century to the present, with emphasis on the poetry of Great Britain.
Text Required
Geddes, Gary, ed. 20th-Century Poetry & Poetics, 5th Edition. Oxford.
ENGL 3475EL01—Modern and Contemporary Drama (Group 3)
Wednesdays 15:00-18:00
Instructor: Dr. Shannon Hengen
Office: Parker Building, L709
Classroom: L620
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4343
Email: shengen@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
Lively readings of plays will be encouraged, and other, more traditional assignments. Discussion of genre focuses on late nineteenth-century Realism and subsequent challenges to it; related study includes influential theories of the stage. We will attend two local productions, remembering that drama is a communal, public form.
Texts Required
Bouchard, Michel Marc. Heat Wave. J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, 1998.
Brodie, Leanna. The Vic. Talonbooks, 2002.
Glass, Joanna McClelland. Trying. Playwrights Canada Press, n.d.
Mamet, David. Glengarry Glenn Ross. Grove/Atlantic, 1994.
Moon, Samuel, ed. Eleven Short Plays of the Modern Theatre. New York: Grove, 1961,1965.
Wise, Jennifer, and Craig S. Walker, eds. The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Plays from the Western Theatre: Vol. II: The Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2003. 1551115824
ENGL 3516EL01—Creative Writing
Mondays 13:30–16:30 (Fall Term)
Instructor: Professor Ernst Gerhardt
Office: Parker Building, L711
Classroom: E203
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 3220
Email: egerhardt@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
In this course, students will exercise and develop our short fiction writing skills within the context of an interested community of writers. Students will develop a critical vocabulary for objectively and usefully commenting on others’ work. By the end of the term, each student will have produced, or enhanced a substantial writing portfolio of their own; experienced the roles of writer, critic, and literary-community member; and assisted in the development of other writers’ skills.
ENGL 4105EL01—Theory and Criticism
Mondays 15:00 to 18:00
Instructor: Dr. Tom Gerry
Office: Parker Building, L709
Classroom: L516
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4344
Email: tgerry@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
In this course, students will learn about and practise systematic thinking about literature. To help students to make this transition to critical thinking, the course includes a study of Paul and Elder’s Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking.
Following the lead of the main textbook, the course will explore the key philosophical and aesthetic origins of literary theory, consider the foundational movements and thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century, introduce the most important movements and thinkers in modern literary theory, and look at emergent trends and future directions in theory and criticism. Students will orally and in writing analyse the course readings.
Texts Required
Paul, Richard, and Linda Elder. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts and Tools.
Dillon Beach, CA: The Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2006.
This text will be available in class.
Waugh, Patricia, ed. Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide. Oxford UP, 2006.
OR
ENGL 4105EL01—Theory and Criticism
Tuesdays and Thursdays 16:00 to 17:30
Instructor: Dr. Marilyn Orr
Office: Parker Building, L720
Classroom: C304
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4348
Email: morr@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
“I gotta use words when I talk to you.” (T. S. Eliot)
We will think, write, read, and talk about language and art as fundamental to the way human beings seek to understand themselves and their communities. Starting with a study of iconic Classical and Romantic theories of criticism, we will explore questions of language and being that have perplexed and intrigued human beings since their minds had leisure to formulate such questions: what is the relation between language and meaning? What constitutes art? What is the value of beauty?
Texts Required
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Oxford UP.
Leitch, Vincent, et al, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.
(An additional text to be added for second term).
ENGL 4686EL01—Honours Seminar I: Mordecai Richler
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9:30 to 10:30 (Fall Term)
Instructor: Dr. Tom Gerry
Office: Parker Building, L709
Classroom: L620
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4344
Email: tgerry@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
This course introduces students to the range of Richler’s writings over his career, from children’s story to journalism and essays to satirical fiction. Students will respond to this work orally and in writing.
Texts Required
Richler, Mordecai. Cocksure. Toronto: McClelland (New Canadian Library), 1996.
——. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Toronto: McClelland, 1989.
——. The Street. Toronto: McClelland, 2002.
——. Barney’s Version. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1998.
——. Jacob Two-two Meets The Hooded Fang. Toronto: Tundra Books. 2003.
Selection of essays, to be made available in class.
ENGL 4786EL01C Honours Seminar III: The Literary Essay
Tuesdays and Thursdays 13:00 to 14:30 (Fall Term)
Instructor: Professor Bruce Dadey
Office: Parker Building, L707
Classroom: C114
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4341
Email: bdadey@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
When students, particularly English students, hear the word "essay," the majority think only of the papers they write for classes and of the published research articles they use to support their own literary analyses. That’s very sad, and needs to be remedied. It’s as if students, on hearing the word "world," could only summon up an image of a cramped classroom. In fact, the literary essay is the most comprehensive of genres, a dynamic tradition with a history that stretches from the classical era to the present and a range of topics that is as broad and varied as humanity itself. It’s also, in many ways, the most intimate genre—the one in which we as readers become as familiar with the writer (or her persona) as we do with the subject matter she explores. In this course we will explore the nature and development of the literary essay, including classical antecedents, the foundational work of Michel de Montaigne, and the subsequent development of the English and American traditions from their beginnings to the present day. We will also be examining some essays in translation. Given that the primary purpose of the essay, as a genre, is engagement between writer and reader, the readings, I hope, will be stimulating and provocative. You might even be inspired to do a little (non-academic) essay writing of your own.
Required texts
Lopate, Phillip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay. New York: Anchor, 1995.
Gross, John, ed. The Oxford Book of Personal Essays. Oxford: OUP, 2002.
Various readings on reserve.