This seminar will combine a hands-on study of form with an opportunity for students to exercise and focus their own creative energies. In any given...
This seminar will examine selected works of George Eliot, with special attention to the structural and psychological aspects of her writings. Seminar...
This seminar explores representations of feminine virtue and vice with examples drawn from early sagas, epics, tales, hagiography, drama, miracle...
A study of the history of cultural studies from its origins in the Frankfurt School, through the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies,...
Examines the changing definition of "humour" in British culture and how it was used and regulated in different genres of literature in the eighteenth...
An examination of selected Canadian novels that respond to the Holocaust. Aesthetic and ethical issues involved in such responses will also be...
This course examines works by and about people who have moved between cultural locations to consider questions of cultural and cross-cultural...
Through the study of relevant literature and film, with a focus on contemporary Israeli and Arab texts, students gain a context for the exploration of...
Examines how women's lives are being transformed in a changing global society and the implications of women's changing places in society for feminist...
This course examines the influence of Franz Kafka
Students will analyze developments in the field of Black British literature, film, culture, and theory since the 1940s.
An exploration of films as texts by paying close attention to the notion of "looking" and "gazing". Seminar (two hours); one term Prerequisite(s):...
This course explores modernist cultures of colonialism and travel, charting early twentieth-century British conceptions of identity, belonging, space,...
This seminar will examine the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with special attention to structural and psychological aspects of his writings. Seminar...
This seminar explores various approaches to Michael Ondaatje
This course will examine some of the popular plays the young Shakespeare would have seen, focusing on playing spaces, character types and cultural...
An intensive study of transgression (economic, erotic, social and literary) in popular and elite drama by Shakespeare's contemporaries, including...
Through a course of readings from a variety of historical and contemporary sources this class will investigate the relations between spirituality,...
This seminar explores a variety of works written by women in the 16th- and 17th- century England, with a consideration of their literary and cultural...