An introduction to literary study, with an emphasis on the formal analysis of a diverse range of poetry and prose. Specific content and approach vary...
This course is designed to promote interest in and understanding of modern prose fiction by introducing students to a selection of the best novels and...
A study of the Bible in English from the Anglo-Saxon period to 1611 and of the use of biblical narrative, allusion, and symbolism by selected English...
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A study of selected works of fantasy. In order to reach a precise definition of this modern genre, the course also examines important historical...
A study of this relatively modern genre with emphasis on methods of close textual analysis of European, British, and North American texts. ...
A study of 19th-century women writers in English. See also ENGL 265*. Also offered as a distance course. Consult Continuing and Distance Studies. ...
A survey history of the English language from its origins in proto-Indo-European to the variety of contemporary world Englishes, with special emphasis...
A critical study of literature written for children or appropriated by adults for the nursery. The emphasis will be on distinguishing the...
A study of English literature emphasizing or relating to its sense of place. Works will be drawn from the literatures of England, Scotland, Wales,...
Introduction to the literature of Britain and Western Europe from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Non-English works are read in translation;...
A study of Chaucer
A study of texts on both sides of the controversial boundary between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Texts are chosen to trace the development of...
A general study of the non-dramatic literature of the English Renaissance with emphasis on the works of Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson,...
A study of Shakespeare's plays in relation to the social, intellectual, and political climate of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods and with...
A study of eight of Shakespeare's plays in relation to the social, intellectual, and political climate of the Elizabethan period and with reference to...
A study of eight of Shakespeare's plays in relation to the social, intellectual, and political climate of the Jacobean period and with reference to...
A general study of English poetry, prose, and drama written between 1660 and 1790 with particular attention to such major writers as Dryden, Swift,...
Studies in the major works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Also offered as a distance course. Consult Continuing and...
A study of major Victorian writers from Carlyle to Hardy with particular emphasis on Arnold, Tennyson, Dickens, George Eliot, and Browning. Also...