This course examines early modern British literature and culture in the 17th century, after England becomes the centre of the Renaissance. It traces...
The mythology of our civilization is the story of things to come. The prophetic visions of writers such as Asimov, Brunner, Clarke, Gibson, Heinlein,...
The era between 1900 and 1945 experienced such a radical sense of its own difference from the past that it is still referred to as the Modern Age. It...
This upper-level course offers students the opportunity both to study models of good writing and to develop their own creative abilities. Class...
This course deals with the impact of innovation in scientific theory on the themes and forms of literature. It considers in what ways contemporaneous...
Invented over 200 years ago, the gothic has become one of the most popular genres in literature and film. This course will explore the gothic presence...
This course examines a variety of life-writing genres including the diary, letter, autobiography, memoir, and biography. By sampling a range of texts...
What makes a political speech "good"? Why are some advertisements more effective than others? This course focuses on the crucial role of rhetoric in...
This course examines forms of creative non-fiction. Students explore how such works -- in their artfulness, seriousness of ideas and moral purpose,...
The first half of the eighteenth century in Britain can be understood as an age looking both backwards and forwards. The old patrician-plebeian order...
Referred to often as the "Age of Reason," the second half of the eighteenth century was infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment and an enthusiasm...
What does it mean for a novel to tell its story in the form of a picaresque, an epistolary exchange, or as speculative or experimental fiction? This...
The word "drama" derives from the Greek term for "to do" or "achieve": this course considers texts designed to come alive on stage. The diversity of...
Ancient bards, sonneteers, rappers; nursery rhymes, love lyrics, inauguration odes, protest songs: poetry has always been part of lived experience....
This course examines autobiographical writings (including the diary,memoir, and letter) and biography (including literary and popular forms), and the...
Ever since it rose from 18th-century popular consciousness like a mummy from the crypt, the gothic has spread its frightening spawn across populations...
From illuminated manuscripts to graphic novels, words have always been accomplished by images that combine aesthetic design with intellectual...
What does it mean to "write as a woman"? Is there such a thing as "women's writing" and if so, what are its characteristics? This course explores the...
Imaginative writing of the post-war period reflects the complexity of contemporary life. In themes as old as folk tales and as current as new visions...
Love, sex, and gender are fluid and complex. Looking at stories, novels, films, and other types of texts, students will analyse the impact of...