Courses in English Literature
ENG 2013. English
Literary Masterpieces.
(ENGL 2322) Major prose and poetry written before 1760 studied in
chronological sequence. Emphasis on the artistry and the relation of
technique to content of the works studied. Prerequisite: ENG 1023 or
its equivalent. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 3013. Representative Works of British Literature to 1760.
Examines significant works in depth with study of authors and genres
in relation to the aesthetic, historical, and cultural contexts.
Requires research with primary and secondary sources. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 3023. Representative Works of British Literature from 1760 to
Present. Examines significant works in depth with study of
authors and genres in relation to the aesthetic, historical, and
cultural contexts. Requires research with primary and secondary
sources. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 3313. The English Novel. Great novels of the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, selected as illustrating types and trends
in development, analyzed for fictional patterns and as
representative of the greatest novelists from Defoe through Hardy.
Prerequisites: Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
ENG 3333. Major Plays of Shakespeare. A close reading of 13
of Shakespeare's major plays, with an examination of Shakespeare's
background in the thought of the English Renaissance. Prerequisites:
Nine hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
hours.
ENG 3353. The Twentieth-Century English Novel. Analysis of
works by the major novelists from 1900 to the present, including
such figures as Conrad, Joyce, Waugh, and Greene. Prerequisite: Nine
hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 4243. Poetry of the Romantic Period. Philosophic and
aesthetic approaches to the study of the work of Blake, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Prerequisites: Nine hours of
English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5033. Chaucer. Major works of Chaucer studied as
literature and as linguistic examples of Middle English; attention
to significant scholarship and criticism. Prerequisites: Bachelor's
degree with concentration in English and ENG 3303 or its equivalent.
Three lecture hours a week Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for
credit when the specific works to be studied vary.
ENG 5143. Drama of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century.
Representative comedies, tragedies, and other plays studied as
reflections of the literary trends of the period. Attention to
significant criticism and to the position of this drama in the
development of the English drama. Prerequisites: Graduate standing
and a concentration in English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
ENG 5153. Studies in Twentieth-Century American and British
Literature. Directed investigation of a topic relating to a
trend, a work, a genre, or an author in twentieth-century American
and/or British literature. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or
approval of the instructor of the course. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the topic
of investigation varies.
ENG 5213. Studies in the English Renaissance. Directed
investigation of a problem in the dramatic and non-dramatic
literature of the sixteenth century. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree
with a concentration in English. Three lecture hours a week Credit:
Three hours. May be repeated for credit when the specific topic of
investigation varies.
ENG 5223. Studies in Seventeenth Century Poetry and Prose.
Directed investigation of a problem in the literary career of a
writer, in a single work, or in an aspect of the century related to
literature. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree with a concentration in
English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. May be
repeated for credit when the specific topic of investigation varies.
ENG 5233. Studies in the Literature of the Eighteenth Century.
Directed investigation of a problem relating to such subjects as an
author, a work, a genre, an idea, a critical principle, an aesthetic
theory. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree with a concentration in
English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. May be
repeated for credit when the specific topic of investigation varies.
ENG 5243. Studies in the Romantic Period. Directed
investigation of a topic related to genre, style, thought, critical
theory, and the interrelationship of the artist and his art in the
Romantic Period or to a major poet, such as Blake, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, or Keats. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree
with a concentration in English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours. May he repeated for credit when the specific topic of
investigation varies.
ENG 5253. Studies in the Victorian Period. Directed
investigation of a topic concerning a prose work by Carlyle or
Macaulay or the poetry and criticism of Arnold or the poetry of
Tennyson and Browning. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree with a
concentration in English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
hours.
ENG 5713. Old and Middle English Language and Literature.
Topics in language and literature before 1500 including history and
development of the language before 1500, and survey of Old and
Middle English Literature. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
semester hours.
ENG 6123. Milton. The major poetic works and selected prose
works of John Milton, against the background of seventeenth-century
English life. Attention to significant scholarship and criticism.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and a concentration in English.
Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
