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Course Descriptions
English (ENG)
To view the complete schedule of courses for
each semester, go to
Cardinal Students.
ENG 101: Rhetoric and Composition
3.00
Credits
An intensive composition course (workshop and discussion) treating rhetorical concepts, logic, and research techniques applied to expository and argumentative writing. Students who wish to use computers in this course should register for one of the sections so indicated in the class schedule. Placement required for enrollment in this course. Fulfills university writing requirement.
ENG 101A: Rhetoric and Composition
3.00
Credits
An intensive composition course (workshop and discussion) treating rhetorical concepts, logic, and research techniques applied to expository and argumentative writing. Students who wish to use computers in this course should register for one of the sections so indicated in the class schedule. Placement required for enrollment in this course. Fulfills university writing requirement.
ENG 102: Composition and Literature
3.00
Credits
An intensive composition course (workshop and discussion) treating rhetorical and literary concepts for improving reading of literature and writing. Students who wish to use computers in this course should register for one of the sections so indicated in the class schedule.
ENG 103: English Composition for International Students
3.00
Credits
A course (workshop and discussion) in argumentative and expository writing designed to meet the needs of students for whom English is a second language and open to them only. Placement required for enrollment in this course. Fulfills university writing requirement for appropriate students.
ENG 104: Literature and Composition for International Students
3.00
Credits
The equivalent of 102 for students whose native language is not English.
ENG 105: Honors Composition Seminar
3.00
Credits
A course (workshop and discussion) for freshmen whose proficiency in composition enables them to profit by an advanced course in exposition and argumentation. Students who wish to use computers in this course should register for one of the sections so indicated in the class schedule. Placement required for enrollment in this course. Fulfills university writing requirement.
ENG 201: Form and Value in Poetry
3.00
Credits
An introduction to the serious study of poetry that considers the distinctive ways in which poets use language, the major types of poetry, and representative works from the history of poetry in English as well as from our own time.
ENG 202: Elements of Drama
3.00
Credits
A study of the structural elements of plot, character, thought, and verbal style in selected plays from the classical periods to the present, with emphasis on British and American works. Various movements (Realism, Symbolism, Expressionism, etc.) and genres (tragedy, comedy, melodrama).
ENG 203: Varieties of the Modern Novel
3.00
Credits
A study of several novels, emphasizing the distinctive way in which each writer uses style, structure, and technical experiment to express a view of the world. The novels examined change from semester to semester.
ENG 205: The Literature of Fantasy
3.00
Credits
A survey of fantasy literature from its beginning in myth and fairy tales and a consideration of themes and motifs from early development to contemporary fantasy.
ENG 208: Highlights of Irish Literature
3.00
Credits
no description available
ENG 209: Studies in Short Fiction
3.00
Credits
A close study of the shorter work of several major writers of British and American fiction.
ENG 231: The History of English Literature I
3.00
Credits
A general survey and analysis of selected works from the beginnings of English literature to the present, delineating general historical patterns that provide a foundation for subsequent study. 231 starts with the Middle Ages and goes through the eighteenth century; 232 begins with the Romantic movement and closes with the moderns. Covers a broad range of materials, also pauses at regular intervals to consider individual works in depth.
ENG 232: The History of English Literature II
3.00
Credits
See description of ENG 231.
ENG 235: American Literature I
3.00
Credits
Reading in works by major authors from the colonial period to the present. Emphasis in 235 is chiefly on nineteenth-century writers; 236 deals with literature of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. May be used by English concentrators to fulfill upper-division course requirements.
ENG 236: American Literature II
3.00
Credits
See description of ENG 235.
ENG 301: Creative Writing: Fiction
3.00
Credits
A workshop for students with adequate writing skills, a chance to write fiction under critical supervision. Emphasis is on literary elements and craft.
ENG 302: Creative Writing: Poetry
3.00
Credits
A workshop for students with adequate writing skills, a chance to write poetry under critical supervision. Emphasis is on formal elements and craft.
ENG 311: Greek and Roman Mythology
3.00
Credits
no description available
ENG 312: Norse Mythology
3.00
Credits
A survey of the myths and religious practices of Scandinavia in the pre-Viking and Viking periods based on textual sources (eddic and skaldic poetry, sagas) and material evidence (art and archeology). Topics include the creation myth, the structure of the world, eschatology, stories of the main gods and heroes, cults and rituals, and the influence of Christianity
ENG 324: Introduction to Linguistics
3.00
Credits
An introductory study of linguistics, with concepts and applications from the traditional areas of analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics) as well as from first- and second-language acquisition and development.
ENG 325: Contemporary English Grammar
3.00
Credits
An overview of English morphology, sentence syntax, and text grammar. Special attention to the needs of writers and English education majors.
ENG 326: Workshop: Writing Improvement
3.00
Credits
A workshop for students who wish to improve their writing, provides practice in and study of invention, organization, and style. Limited enrollment insures individual attention and response by the instructor to the special concerns of both upper- and lower-division students.
ENG 327: Argumentative Writing
3.00
Credits
A workshop of techniques for writing convincing, logical arguments. Of special interest to economics, business, politics, education, and pre-law students.
ENG 331: Intensive Readings: Lyric
3.00
Credits
Two courses from the Intensive Readings group (ENG 331, 332, 333) are required of English concentrators and are normally to be taken by them, one per semester in the junior year. Each involves concentrated readings in the genre at issue--e.g., ballad, sonnet, ode, elegy, dramatic monologue, villanelle, sestina--chosen to highlight major points in its development through British and American literary history. Regular essays on the readings. Open to English concentrators only. Prerequisites: 231, 232.
ENG 332: Intensive Readings: Drama
3.00
Credits
See description for ENG 331. Prerequisites: 231, 232.
ENG 333: Intensive Readings: Narrative
3.00
Credits
See description for ENG 331. Prerequisites: 231, 232.
ENG 337: World Fictions
3.00
Credits
The novel and short story as these have evolved in multiple national literatures during the 19th and especially the 20th Century, exploring in particular the fictional perspectives of writers during the age of empire and their post-colonial successors. Readings will be drawn from such authors as Forster, Bronte, Conrad, Rhys, Narayan, Naipaul, Achebe, Cortazar, and others.
ENG 340: Old English Literature
3.00
Credits
A survey of the language and literature of the Anglo-Saxons (c. 600-1200), based mainly on texts in translation, with a glance at the neighboring and related literatures of Ireland and Scandinavia.
ENG 341: The World of the Anglo-Saxons
3.00
Credits
An interdisciplinary introduction (through texts and images) to early medieval England from the 5th century to Norman Conquest, with a brief survey of Anglo-Saxon history, Old English language and literature, insular art, archeology, religion, and manuscript studies.
ENG 342: History of the English Language
3.00
Credits
A linguistic and cultural survey of the development of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the 21st century, exploring the language (and reconstructed pronunciation) of the Anglo-Saxons, Chaucer, and Shakespeare, and discussing, among others, the origin and development of different writing systems, the reasons for the discrepancy of spelling and pronunciation in Modern English, differences between British and American English, and the historical origin of American dialects.
ENG 344: Introduction to Cinema Studies
3.00
Credits
Designed to introduce students to a variety of issues and methods in cinema studies, including questions of film form and style (narrative, editing, sound, framing, mise-en-scene, etc.), and questions in film history and theory (apparatus, institution, authorship, self-reflexivity, genre, the star system, etc.). Considers both Hollywood and alternative film traditions. Same as MDIA 344.
ENG 345: The Epic Tradition from Homer to Joyce
3.00
Credits
After examining the Iliad and the Odyssey, and Virgil's response to them in his Aeneid, the course traces the continuation of this epic tradition through Dante's Divine Comedy, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Joyce's Ulysses.
ENG 350: American Cinema, American Culture
3.00
Credits
Examines the theory and practice of American cinema in the larger social and political context of American culture. Gives students a critical vocabulary for analyzing films and introduces the classical Hollywood style, the star system, and film genres including the western, the screwball comedy, film noir, the combat film, and the musical. Same as MDIA 350.
ENG 351: Chaucer and His Age I
3.00
Credits
First semester: a study of the major genres of medieval literature based on selections from the Canterbury Tales and other works; second semester, the major forms and tradition of Middle English literature, with special attention to Chaucer's minor poems, the Troilus, and/or selected religious plays and popular lyrics. Either course may be used by undergraduate English concentrators to fulfill their requirement for a semester of Chaucer.
ENG 352: Chaucer and His Age II
3.00
Credits
See ENG 351 for description.
ENG 356: Arthurian Literature
3.00
Credits
Traces the development of tales of King Arthur and his knights, from their origins in Celtic myth and legend, to the medieval romances of England and France, to modern novels and films.
ENG 364: Milton's English Poetry
3.00
Credits
A study of Milton's poetry, with emphasis on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
ENG 365: Contemporary American Poetry
3.00
Credits
Contemporary American Poetry. A study of important trends and authors in American poetry since 1960, including representative poets from these movements: "Confessional" Poetry, New Formalism, Language Poetry, Black Arts Movement, Beat Poetry, Deep Imagists, and Neo-Romantics.
ENG 369: Renaissance Poetry
3.00
Credits
A study of sixteenth and seventeenth-century English poetry, including selections from Wyatt, Gascoigne, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, Greville, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Lovelace, and Marvell.
ENG 371: Readings in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
3.00
Credits
Treats works by Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Collins, Gray and Goldsmith, studied with a literary and political overview of the history of the period 1700-1800.
ENG 372: Restoration & 18th Century Drama
3.00
Credits
A study of 120 years of theatrical innovation, including heroic drama, "affective," bourgeois, and French-influenced tragedy, comedy of wit, late eighteenth century comedy of "good nature," parodies, and burlesques.
ENG 375: On the Road: A Journey into the Literature and Music of the American South
3.00
Credits
After one week of intensive study, the class travels by van for approximately two weeks, visiting writers, musicians, and sites central to the development of the South's contemporary cultural landscape. Students visit offices of high quality literary publications, tour various recording studios, and speak to musicians and producers. After the trip, class meets for two more weeks, focusing on developing essays from journals of the trip. Enrollment limited, subject to instructors' approval; in addition to regular tuition, a fee of approximately $500 covers travel and lodging. Students are responsible for all other personal expenses. Summer Sessions only.
ENG 376: Theatre Topics
3.00
Credits
Playwriting since World War II. Study of drama, theater, criticism, and culture through focus on selected problems, issues, or periods. Topics and faculty for each term announced in advance. Recent topics have included theater architecture; critical approaches to drama from Freud to feminism; plays of political, social, and personal expression; the role of the director in premodern, modern, and postmodern eras; and plays since WW II. Courses may involve costs of attending a few theater productions. Same as DR 202.
ENG 380: British Drama (London)
3.00
Credits
no description available
ENG 381: Poetry and Rock in the Age of Dickey and Dylan
3.00
Credits
An examination of the development of contemporary American poetry and its influence on rock music after Dylan went electric in the mid-60s. Movements and concepts considered include Beat, Confessional, Deep Image, Southern Narrative, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, the Rock Opera, the San Francisco Renaissance, Southern Rock, Heavy Metal, and Punk.
ENG 382: Literature of Travel and Exploration
3.00
Credits
An examination of non-fiction travel literature from the Bible and classical antiquity to the present day, including Viking sagas, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, slave narratives, pioneer journals, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, William Least Heat-Moon, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and others.
ENG 383: Children's Literature
3.00
Credits
An examination of major literary works composed for younger readers, including narratives by the Brothers Grimm, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, A.A. Milne, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.A. Rey, Jean de Brunhoff, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, and others.
ENG 384: Short Fiction by Women
3.00
Credits
Intensive reading of major authors in English, e.g., Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Rhys, Mary Lavin.
ENG 385: Literature of the Family
3.00
Credits
A study of literature on the family in the twentieth century, focusing on contemporary works.
ENG 386: British Women Novelists
3.00
Credits
Major authors from the British Isles and former Empire, e.g., Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Edna O'Brien, Buchi Emecheta, Arundhati Roy.
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ENG 387: American Women Novelists
3.00
Credits
A study of major women authors from North America, e.g., Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan, Julia Alvarez, Louise Erdrich.
ENG 388: American Women Writers
3.00
Credits
A study of writing in several genres by American women, focusing on the twentieth century but including some writers from previous eras.
ENG 389: American Literature and Culture Since 1945
3.00
Credits
Explores how American literature has charted and shaped American cultural change from the end of World War II to the present. Readings focus on the culture of the 1950s, the Vietnam era, and/or the "postmodern" period. Special attention is given to the role of media technologies (television, film, recorded sound, and digital media) in the transformation of American society.
ENG 390: Literature of the American South
3.00
Credits
Readings in various genres, by Faulkner, O'Connor, Percy, Warren, McCullers, Dickey. Topics include regional identity, sense of place, the interaction of history and myth, and social and racial identities and stereotypes.
ENG 391: Highlights of African-American Literature
3.00
Credits
A study of the principal contributions to American literature made by black writers.
ENG 397: Modern American Poetry
3.00
Credits
Close reading of works by twentieth-century poets, especially from the period 1910-1945. Emphasizes the historical development of movements in American poetry and their relation to one another.
ENG 398: Contemporary American Novel
3.00
Credits
A study of novels by Pynchon, Delillo and others.
ENG 399: Modern American Drama
3.00
Credits
A survey of Realist Drama and reactions to it in the twentieth century, including plays by O'Neill, Williams, Wilder, Miller, and others.
ENG 430: Art of Rhetoric
3.00
Credits
Examines classical and modern theories of persuasion, focusing on the writer or speaker, the subject, the audience, and the circumstances. Same as MDIA 303.
ENG 431: Coordinating Seminar I
Coordinating Seminar I
Coordinating Seminar I
3.00
Credits
A two-semester sequence devoted to the study of a significant British or American author (authors' names are announced each year in time for preregistration the preceding spring semester). The first semester focuses on a systematic reading of the author's works. The second semester explores fundamental questions regarding the nature of literature and its study through application of various critical approaches to the author. Involves writing and discussion in class of several papers by each student during the year. Required of all senior English concentrators, open only to them. Prerequisites: 231, 232, and two intensive reading courses (331, 332, 333).
ENG 432: Coordinating Seminar II
3.00
Credits
See description for ENG 431.
ENG 450: Film Narrative: The Coen Brothers
3.00
Credits
The Coen Brothers' body of film work is known for its quirky, often stylized, sometimes violent depiction of American life. This course explores the development of the Coen Brothers' original filmmaking style and themes. Same as MDIA 450.
ENG 451: Film Narrative: Hitchcock
3.00
Credits
Viewing and discussion of works from the entire range of Alfred Hitchcock's career. Emphasis on narrative forms, themes and motifs, technical devices. Attention to technical film vocabulary, narratology, and critical approaches to film. Same as MDIA 451.
ENG 452: Film Narrative:Stanley Kubrick
3.00
Credits
Emphasizes the concepts and vocabulary of contemporary film studies. Analysis of the works of Kubrick, director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lolita, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and other films. Same as MDIA 452.
ENG 453: American Film Comedy
3.00
Credits
This course examines American movie comedies from the silent era to the present, asking questions about genre (what is comedy?) and context (what can comedies tell us about American culture and its history?). Particular emphasis is given to silent film slapstick, the sophisticated "screwball" comedy of the 1930s, the varieties of comedy during the 1950s and 1960s, the anarchic teen comedy of the last 20 years, as well as animated films. Same as MDIA 453.
ENG 454: American Film Comedy II
3.00
Credits
A continuation of ENG 453.
ENG 455: The Crime Film and Literature
3.00
Credits
Crime films are examined from both cinematic and cultural-sociological perspectives. Main emphasis is on the American genre: gangster films of the 1930s, film noir of the 1940s-1950s, and The Godfather and other organized-crime films of the 1970s and beyond. An international perspective is provided by selections from German, French, Japanese, and British cinema. Readings in film theory and crime fiction supplement film showings. Same as MDIA 455.
ENG 456: Science Fiction Media
3.00
Credits
This course explores science fiction as a genre. Readings and discussions will focus on the characteristics shared by science fiction texts of many kinds, while considering how the specific qualities of different media become engaged with the thematic and narrative structures of different science fictions. Mandatory screenings will be arranged for several evenings during the semester. Same as MDIA 456.
ENG 458: Religion and Media
3.00
Credits
Examines ways in which film has addressed questions of religious practice and belief. Screenings include A Man for All Seasons, Song of Bernadette, Holy Ghost People, Jesus of Montreal, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Apostle. Same as MDIA 458.
ENG 460: Film and History
3.00
Credits
Introduces students to basic concepts in film studies, historiography, and the relationship between these two modes of representation. Considers how filmmakers and historians have grappled with the past in their respective representations of several significant historical episodes, including American slavery, the American Civil War, the sinking of the Titanic, World War II, the Holocaust, the Viet Nam War. Same as MDIA 460.
ENG 461: Plays of Shakespeare I
3.00
Credits
A one- or two-semester introduction to Shakespeare. Each semester examines a different selection of about a dozen works drawn from the various genres and from the different periods in the career of the author.
ENG 462: Plays of Shakespeare II
3.00
Credits
See ENG 461 for description.
ENG 464: Modern Japan
3.00
Credits
The aim of this course is to examine cultural and social change over the past one and a quarter centuries; to focus primarily upon literature and language change, cinema, and education as, simultaneously, important indicators of, and factors effecting and shaping, that change; and to explore the complex interactions between "traditional" and "modern" factors as Japan has evolved.
ENG 470: International New Wave Cinema
3.00
Credits
Examines a form characterized by its exciting formal innovations and emphasis on youth culture. This course will explore films from a variety of New Wave Cinemas, including the U.S., France, Czechoslovakia, Japan, and Brazil. Same as MDIA 470
ENG 483: Literature and Religion in 19th Century England
3.00
Credits
Consideration of the complex ways religious thought influenced 19-th century literature in a range of genres including poetry, novels, essays, spiritual autobiography, drama, sermons, and music. The course will go beyond binaries like that of faith and doubt to examine the nuanced and changing place of religion in public life. Writers discussed will include Eliot, Newman, Hopkins, and Wilde.
ENG 501: Introduction to Old English I
3.00
Credits
Instruction in the essentials of Old English grammar and prosody, with readings in the shorter prose and verse texts.
ENG 502: Introduction to Old English II
3.00
Credits
Instruction in the essentials of Old English grammar and prosody, with readings in the shorter prose and verse texts.
ENG 503: Beowulf
3.00
Credits
A reading of the entire poem in the original language, with attention to textual and critical problems. Prerequisite: 501 or equivalent.
ENG 520: American Political Rhetoric
3.00
Credits
A study of speeches that have made history in America, examining them from the standpoint of rhetorical theory and attending to their historical context.
ENG 524: The Rhetoric of Advertising
3.00
Credits
Examines evolving strategies of persuasion in advertising, in the context of its social history and from a variety of critical perspectives. Same as MDIA 524.
ENG 526: Workshop: Writing Improvement
3.00
Credits
A workshop for students who wish to improve their writing. Provides an opportunity to experiment with different forms of academic, professional, or personal writing. Limited enrollment insures individual attention and response by the instructor to each student's special concerns.
ENG 530: The Rhetoric of Propaganda
3.00
Credits
A study of the history and theory of propaganda, in relation to the art of rhetoric. Focus is on 20th century propaganda.
ENG 532: Visual Rhetoric
3.00
Credits
no description available
ENG 541: Irish Women Writers
3.00
Credits
For course description see IRST 541. Same as: IRST 541.
ENG 545: Introduction to Old Irish I
3.00
Credits
Instruction in Classical Old Irish (c. 800), with readings in shorter prose and verse texts. Normally offered in alternate years.
ENG 546: Introduction to Old Irish II
3.00
Credits
See ENG 545 for description. Prerequisite ENG 545 or equivalent.
ENG 547: Introduction to Middle Welsh I
3.00
Credits
Instruction in medieval literary Welsh, with readings from the Mabinogion and Old Welsh poetry. Normally offered in alternate years.
ENG 548: Introduction to Middle Welsh II
3.00
Credits
See ENG 547 for description. Prerequisite ENG 547 or equivalent.
ENG 561: English Pastoral Literature
3.00
Credits
The genre from its classical origins through its development in the Renaissance in English to its transformation in the eighteenth century. A prior acquaintance with other Renaissance literary traditions desirable.
ENG 565: Renaissance Drama
3.00
Credits
Readings in the dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Selections from the following playwrights: Kyd, Dekker, Chapman, Marston, Heywood, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Beaumont, Fletcher, Webster, Ford, and Tourneur.
ENG 570: Seminar in Contemporary Irish Society
3.00
Credits
An interdisciplinary course on current developments in Irish politics, economics, and culture. Subject areas include the present structure of Irish political life (north and south); pressures and opportunities in the Irish economy; Irish relations with the United States, the European community, and the developing world; traditions and shifting values in Irish literature and other aspects of culture. Guest lecturers from Irish academic and professional life and a core faculty to supervise students' research projects. Students may register for the seminar as ECON 533, ENG 570, HIST 530, or POL 570.
ENG 572: Restoration and 18th Century Drama
3.00
Credits
A study of 120 years of theatrical innovation, including heroic drama, "affective," bourgeois, and French-influenced tragedy, comedy of wit, late eighteenth century comedy of "good nature," parodies, and burlesques.
ENG 573: Irish Drama of the 17th & 18th Century
3.00
Credits
A look at plays by the Old English, the New English, Irish Catholics, and the Anglo-Irish; looks at the cultural conflicts of Ireland from 1639-1798.
ENG 580: Irish Literary Tradition (Dublin)
3.00
Credits
no description available
ENG 583: The Modern Irish Short Story
3.00
Credits
Readings in this genre over the past century, from George Moore through Somerville and Ross, Joyce, Beckett, O'Flaherty, O'Connor, O'Faolain, Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor, and others. Will explore reasons why short fiction has flourished in modern Ireland.
ENG 585: Women in Modern Irish Literature
3.00
Credits
A study of Irish women writers of this century, including Somerville and Ross, Kate O'Brien, Molly Keane, Elizabeth Bowen, and their prose tradition.
ENG 586: Irish Poetry After Yeats
3.00
Credits
A selection from outstanding Irish literature, including work of Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney.
ENG 587: Modern Irish Drama
3.00
Credits
A study of works by major Irish playwrights since the turn of the century.
ENG 588: Contemporary Irish Drama
3.00
Credits
A continuation of 587. Deals with the work of living dramatists from Brian Friel, Thomas Murphy, and Thomas Kilroy, through Frank McGuiness and the young playwrights of Ireland's new dramatic renaissance, including Sebastian Barry, Conor McPherson, and Martin McDonagh, among others. When possible, the class will be addressed by visiting playwrights and directors; students will attend relevant local productions.
ENG 589: The American Tradition in Poetry
3.00
Credits
Readings selected from a broad span of American literary history, with special emphasis on major poets of the American Renaissance and the modernist period. Traces continuities in poetic theory, modes, and techniques that have resulted from a common cultural heritage and from interaction among poets.
ENG 592: Modern American Drama
3.00
Credits
A study of American drama since O'Neill, focusing on major trends such as realism, naturalism, and experimental theatre.
ENG 595: Independent Study
3.00
Credits
no description available
ENG 596: Independent Study
3.00
Credits
no description available
ENG 599: Northern Ireland: Conflict and Culture
3.00
Credits
Follows the origins and development of the Northern Ireland conflict, from the 1960s to the present, and explores the cultural renaissance proceeding in tandem with that conflict, and the emergence of a new political system for Northern Ireland in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
ENG 621: History of the English Language
3.00
Credits
A philological study of the English language from its prehistoric beginnings to the present time. Undergraduates welcome with permission of the instructor.
ENG 625: General Linguistics
3.00
Credits
Major issues in the traditional areas of language analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), as well as in the interdisciplinary fields of pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis, with applications for composition and literary analysis.
ENG 626: Contemporary English Grammar
3.00
Credits
A guided exploration through the intricacies of a relatively "complete" grammar of contemporary English.
ENG 633: History and Narrative
3.00
Credits
Study of the theories and controversies surrounding the writing of history. Authors to be studied may include Thucydides, Immanuel Kant, Carlos Ginzburg, and Hayden White.
ENG 635: History of Rhetoric: Early Greek through Medieval
3.00
Credits
Analysis of the contributions of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Augustine, and others through the early Scholastics. Major topical concerns are the province, scope, and ethics of rhetoric. Formerly offered as 731.
ENG 636: History of Rhetoric II: The Late Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
3.00
Credits
The medieval additions to the art; Renaissance rhetoric and the effect of Ramus's reforms; the influence of Bacon; the contributions of Blair, Campbell, and Whately; the decline of rhetoric in early twentieth-century America.
ENG 637: Special Topics in Rhetoric
3.00
Credits
Seminar in specialized areas of rhetorical history and theory.
ENG 641: Old English Literature I
3.00
Credits
An introduction to the language and literature of Anglo-Saxon England. Prerequisite: 501 or equivalent; 641 is not a prerequisite for 642.
ENG 642: Old English Literature II
3.00
Credits
An introduction to the language and literature of Anglo-Saxon England. Prerequisite: 501 or equivalent; 641 is not a prerequisite for 642.
ENG 643: Introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic
3.00
Credits
The language and literature of medieval Iceland, with particular attention to the Family Sagas and the poetic sources for Scandinavian mythology.
ENG 644: Old Norse Texts
3.00
Credits
Continued reading in prose and poetic works written in Old Norse. Prerequisite: 643 or equivalent.
ENG 649: Readings in Old Norse
3.00
Credits
Selected readings in Old Norse literature for advanced students of the language. Prerequisites: 643 and 644 or equivalent.
ENG 651: Old English Poetry
3.00
Credits
An advanced-level course in Old English with special focus on poetry. Surveys the entire Anglo-Saxon poetic corpus (in translation) in the context of the four poetic manuscripts and discusses select texts in greater detail in linguistic and literary terms.
ENG 656: Alliterative Poetry of the 14th Century
3.00
Credits
Close reading of Piers Plowman, the works of the Gawain-poet, and other major poems of the alliterative tradition.
ENG 662: Spenser
3.00
Credits
Critical perspectives on the lyrics and The Faerie Queene.
ENG 664: Milton
3.00
Credits
Critical perspectives on the lyrics, Comus, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
ENG 672: Restoration Literature
3.00
Credits
A study concentrating on the major plays of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve; the poetry of Waller, Cowley, and Rochester; the works of Dryden.
ENG 674: The Novel from Defoe to Austen
The Novel from Behn to Austen
3.00
Credits
A study of the novel as it developed in works by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Burney, and Austen.
ENG 676: Eighteenth-Century English Poetry and Criticism
3.00
Credits
A study of works by Pope, Thomson, Johnson, Collins, Smart, Gray, Goldsmith, and Burns; and of developments in criticism from Dryden to Wordsworth, concentrating on Johnson.
ENG 678: Scott and the Historical Novel
3.00
Credits
Deals with Scott's position within the romantic movement and with the emergence of the historical novel as a genre, with emphasis on the Waverly novels. Also considers the influence of Scott on later British and continental authors.
ENG 681: Readings in Romantic Verse
3.00
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A discussion of key texts by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
ENG 683: Major Victorian Poets
3.00
Credits
A study of the principal poetic works of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold and selections from their contemporaries.
ENG 684: Aestheticism & Decadence
3.00
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no description available
ENG 685: Victorian Novel
3.00
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Considers major trends in the development of the British novel from 1830 to 1900 through a study of selected works by Dickens, the Bronte sisters, Eliot, Hardy, and other writers.
ENG 688: American Realism & the European Background
3.00
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Includes key statements by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century critics on the nature of realism and analyses of realistic fiction by continental and American writers: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, James, Howells, Crane, Norris, and Dreiser.
ENG 690: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
3.00
Credits
Novels and stories selected to illustrate the variety of accomplishment by Americans in this genre up to World War I. Topics include traditional considerations of literary history and aesthetics, as well as current thinking about ideology and literature, canon formation, and minority voices.
ENG 691: The Modern British Novel
3.00
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A detailed study of selected works published during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Novelists represented are Conrad, Ford, Forster, Woolf, Lawrence, and Huxley, as well as Katherine Mansfield as a writer of short fiction.
ENG 694: Topics in the Irish Literary Renaissance
3.00
Credits
A study of the background and salient issues in Anglo-Irish literature from 1890 to 1925. Particular attention to works by Yeats, Synge, Joyce, O'Casey, and Lady Gregory.
ENG 696: Achievement of Eliot and Auden
3.00
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A discussion of British poetry from 1920 to 1960 concentrating on changes in idiom and theme introduced by Eliot and Auden. Includes close readings of Waste Land, Four Quartets, and a general description of postwar trends.
ENG 698: Twentieth-Century American Fiction
3.00
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Novels and stories by American writers since World War I, considered both as expressions of national culture and in the context of international developments and techniques.
ENG 699: Postmodern Novel
3.00
Credits
no description available
ENG 700: Practicum in the Teaching of Composition
0.00
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Designed for first-year teaching assistants who are engaged in teaching 101 (Rhetoric and Composition). Supplements ENG 723. To be taken concurrently with ENG 723.
ENG 715: Literary Criticism and Religion
3.00
Credits
Seminar: A survey of some critical works and authors who investigated the religious dimensions of literary works; background will be a discussion of the interdisciplinary aspects of religious and literary texts.
ENG 718: Constructing Literary Fields
3.00
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An exploration of how fields of literary study have evolved in the twentieth century. Considers individual cases (Modernism, Post-modernism, Southern Literature, Confessional Literature) through analyses of primary and secondary tests.
ENG 720: Literary Theory and Composition
3.00
Credits
A consideration of the intersection of twentieth-century literary theories and the theory and practice of composition.
ENG 721: Bibliography and Methods
3.00
Credits
Topics included in this pre-professional course: analytical and descriptive bibliography, textual criticism, enumerative bibliography for the study of English and American literature, and techniques and methods of research in English and American literary history.
ENG 723: Approaches to Teaching Rhetoric and Composition
3.00
Credits
Application of principles from rhetorical and discourse theories to concrete problems in the pedagogy of composition. Teaching assistants and writing center tutors are required to take this course in their first semester of assistantship.
ENG 725: Readings in Medieval English Literature
3.00
Credits
Like 726, 727, 728, and 729, includes extensive reading on an advanced level of major authors and texts as well as a sampling of key scholarly works related to the period under consideration. Recommended for students whose special interests lie in other periods or areas of English and American literature.
ENG 726: Readings in English Literature of the Renaissance
3.00
Credits
Comparison of utopias by More and Margaret Cavendish, psalms by Wyatt and Mary Herbert, sonnets by Shakespeare and Wroth, lyrics by Jonson, Donne and Lanyer, dramas by Jonson, Webster and Elizabeth Cary, verse narratives by Spenser and Milton.
ENG 727: Readings in English Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
3.00
Credits
See ENG 725 for description.
ENG 728: Readings in English Literature from 1798 to 1914
3.00
Credits
See ENG 725 for description.
ENG 729: Readings in American Literature
3.00
Credits
See ENG 725 for description.
ENG 741: Seminar in Stylistics
3.00
Credits
The conceptual basis of modern stylistics in linguistics, rhetoric, and literary theory. Application of recent stylistic methodologies and techniques to the study of literary texts and non-literary texts. Topics emphasized may differ from semester to semester to accommodate students' specific fields of study.
ENG 743: Texts in Context: Anglo-Saxon Poetry & Culture
3.00
Credits
A study of a selection of Old English poetic texts both as literary works of art as well as contemporary documents of Anglo-Saxon culture. The texts will be read (largely) in Old English and discussed in the context of Anglo-Saxon history, archeology, insular art, and manuscript studies. Previous knowledge of Old English is not absolutely required but very welcome.
ENG 753: Chaucer: Troilus and Other Early Poems
3.00
Credits
A study of the development of Chaucer's narrative art in its historical and intellectual context. Readings include The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and a close analysis of Troilus and Criseyde.
ENG 754: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
3.00
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The Canterbury Tales (3) - An examination of Chaucer's unfinished masterpiece from various critical and theoretical perspectives.
ENG 757: Medieval English Drama
3.00
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A study of Latin and English religious drama from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries with particular attention to the literary qualities, performance practices, and institutional settings of the plays.
ENG 832: Seminar: The New Rhetorics
3.00
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Studies the New Rhetorics of the twentieth century, including the writings of I.A. Richards, Kenneth Burke, Chaim Perelman, and Jurgen Habermas, among others.
ENG 834: Seminar: Renaissance Epic
3.00
Credits
A study of Renaissance epic, including Orlando furioso, Jerusalem Delivered, The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost. Attention will be paid to the interplay between epic past and historical present in each poem; secondary readings will survey recent critical approaches to the individual poems and to the epic tradition as such.
ENG 836: Renaissance Rhetoric
3.00
Credits
The course treats selected texts of Renaissance rhetoric from the early humanist revival to the reforms of Ramus and Bacon. Selections from prominent authors of the period are read to illustrate the use of rhetoric.
ENG 838: Seminar: Rhetorical Writing in Academic Disciplines
3.00
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A consideration of scholarly and scientific writing within various academic disciplines, examining disciplinary aims and rhetorical dimensions, including implications for the teaching of writing to undergraduates.
ENG 841: Seminar:Studies in Old English
3.00
Credits
Current topic: an examination of the elegies (established and doubtful) in the Exeter Book, and their Christian, Boethian, Germanic, and Celtic affiliations. Instruction in Old English paleography, textual criticism, and literary scholarship. Prerequisite: 642 or equivalent.
ENG 845: Seminar:Topics in Celtic Philology
3.00
Credits
Directed research for advanced students of Old Irish or Middle Welsh. Qualified undergraduates admitted with instructor's permission. Participants undertake projects related to a central topic and present them to the class.
ENG 847: Seminar: Rhetoric of Narrative
3.00
Credits
Seminar Explores the intersections of rhetoric and narrative/narratology in novels, novellas, and short fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Readings will include theoretical as well as literary texts. Authors may include Dickens, Henry James, Joyce, Mansfield, Porter, Capote, Gass, Carver, and others.
ENG 851: Seminar in Medieval Literature
3.00
Credits
Directed research for advanced students of medieval literature. Begins with intensive study of a single important manuscript (e.g., the Exeter Book, the Junius Manuscript, BL Cotton Nero A.X.), and focuses on questions of composition and dissemination, paleography, textual criticism, reception history, and literary scholarship. May be repeated for credit when a different topic is offered. Prerequisite: One course in Old or Middle English, or permission of instructor.
ENG 856: Seminar: The Assumptions of Realism and Modern American Drama
3.00
Credits
Dramatic Realism is a convention arising on European stages in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Examines the underlying assumptions of realism and their consequences for American drama, as well as reactions against realism. Covers both major and minor playwrights.
ENG 858: Seminar in Early English Drama
3.00
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Directed research in the civic ceremonial life of late medieval York, with particular attention to the surviving mystery cycle. Students will develop skills in paleography, iconography, and archival research.
ENG 861: The Renaissance Lyric
3.00
Credits
A study of lyric poetry from Wyatt to Marvell.
ENG 865: Seminar: Pastoral Tradition
3.00
Credits
The genre from its classical origins through its development in the Renaissance in English to its transformation in the eighteenth century.
ENG 871: Seminar in Swift
3.00
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This course examines the major writings of Jonathan Swift, from the "Tale of a Tub" through Gulliver's Travels and the late poems, noticing his experiments in form, his expansion of satire, his attitudes to women and to his native Ireland, as well as various theoretical approaches to his works.
ENG 873: Seminar in Samuel Johnson
3.00
Credits
A course in seminar format with occasional lectures.
ENG 875: Seminar in Austen
3.00
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no description available
ENG 877: Seminar: American Renaissance
3.00
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Key works by several writers in the American Renaissance, considered in light of recent literary theory and the writing of literary history.
ENG 878: Seminar: Walt Whitman
3.00
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A study of the poetry and principal prose works of Walt Whitman. Emphasis on Whitman's intellectual and artistic achievement as a forerunner of thought and art in the modern period.
ENG 879: Seminar: Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson
3.00
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A study of the principal poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, emphasizing topics of lyric writing and social and intellectual movements through a comparative and contrastive view of the works.
ENG 885: Seminar in 19th Century Religious Poetry
3.00
Credits
no description available
ENG 886: Seminar: Apocalypse in 19th and 20th Century English Literature
3.00
Credits
Transformations of the Biblical Apocalyse in the literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Authors include Wordsworth, P.B. and Mary Shelley, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Ruskin, Wells, Yeats, and Lawrence.
ENG 887: Sem: American Poetry Mid-20th Century
3.00
Credits
Course Description for ENG 887: American Poetry of the Mid-Twentieth Century This course is an in-depth study of the significant developments in American poetry during the mid-twentieth century, set in political and social milieu and examining the aesthetic experimentation that developed in this milieu. Among poets to be studied are Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, the Beat poets, The Deep Image poets, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, James Merrill, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, and Adrienne Rich.
ENG 889: Seminar:Shakespeare
3.00
Credits
An intensive study of selected works with particular attention to recent criticism.
ENG 891: Seminar in Yeats
3.00
Credits
An examination of the structure and coherence evident in Yeats's work as a lyric poet and dramatist over the course of his career. Also studies his letters, his prose, and biographical and critical works written about him. Seminar addresses allied Topics-Modernism. The Irish Literary Renaissance and The Abbey Theatre tradition.
ENG 892: Seminar in Joyce
3.00
Credits
An intensive study of Ulysses.
ENG 893: Seminar: Evelyn Waugh and the Modern English Novel
3.00
Credits
Concentrates on Waugh's main novels and their place at the crossroads of traditional and new (post-World War II) fiction in England. Employs various critical methodologies, examines important studies of Waugh. By way of context, includes a survey of British fiction both preceding Waugh and subsequent to his death.
ENG 895: Sem:Modern American Poetry
3.00
Credits
A study of the major writers in America, concentrating on 1910-1950, including Pound, Eliot, Frost, Williams, Moore, and Stevens.
ENG 896: Seminar: William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren
3.00
Credits
An intensive study of Faulkner's and Warren's literary careers, and of the central critical issues involving their canons.
ENG 897: Seminar in Contemporary Southern Poetry
3.00
Credits
An intensive study of the poetic theory and practice of selected American Southern writers, principally Robert Penn Warren, James Dickey, and Dave Smith. Also considers the influence of these writers on other poets.
ENG 899: Seminar in 20th-Century American Drama
3.00
Credits
Focuses on problems of interpretation in key dramas by American playwrights of this century.
ENG 995: Thesis - Masters
0.00
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no description available
ENG 996: Thesis - Masters
0.00
Credits
no description available
ENG 997: Dissertation - Doctoral
0.00
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no description available
ENG 998: Dissertation - Doctoral
0.00
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no description available
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