University of Delaware
Graduate Catalog 1996-1997
College of Arts and Science
Department of English
Course Descriptions

ENGL 600  Methods of Research  3
   Research methods and problem-solving strategies in literary and cultural
   studies.

ENGL 604  Poetry Writing Workshop  3
   Intensive practice in verse composition. Group discussions and
   individual conferences. Wide reference to professional poems as models.
   Emphasis on student competence in traditional prosody as well as
   exploring freer forms.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 621  Medieval Literature and Culture  3
   Survey course will study medieval culture and ideas as expressed in
   literature (e.g., Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Divine Comedy)
   and/or in history, philosophy, etc. (e.g., Boethius, Augustine, Thomas
   Aquinas), and topics (e.g., orality and literacy, epic and romance,
   genres).
   RESTRICTIONS: For graduate students with little or no medieval
      literature and culture background.

ENGL 625  Studies in the Renaissance  3
   Survey course, intended primarily for students with no previous
   experience of the period. A wide selection of authors will be studied
   (e.g., More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Herbert, Marvell,
   Jonson, Webster, Middleton, the Cavalier poets, Marvell, Milton); some
   of Shakespeare's works may also be included.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 627  Seventeenth-Century Literature  3
   This survey course covers representative examples of prose, poetry, and
   drama from Jacobean comedies, tragedies, and masques to the satire,
   burlesque, and mannnered literature of the Restoration. Points of focus
   are the counsels and propositions of Francis Bacon and his followers;
   developments in lyrical, narrative, descriptive, and meditative poetry
   of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Marvell and Milton; classicism from Jonson
   to Cowley and Dryden; romance and prose fiction.

ENGL 631  Eighteenth-Century Literature  3
   Variable content. Course topics may include (but are not restricted to)
   general survey (i.e., selected poetry, drama, fiction), genre survey,
   gender studies (e.g., women writers), or thematic issues (e g.,
   literature and politics).
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 634  Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature  3
   Survey of the Romatic and/or Victorian literature.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 636  Twentieth-Century Literature  3
   Broadly focused to include multiple genres and/or movements (e.g., turn-
   of-the-century realism, war poets, modernism, postmodern drama) from
   before and after World War II. May include American, European and post-
   colonial, in addition to British literature.

ENGL 639  Studies in Modern/Contemporary Literature  3
   Variable content. Study of selected poetry, prose, and drama of the
   twentieth century, with an emphasis on the major texts of English and
   American literature during the period. Some attention given to other
   literary traditions and writings.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 641  American Literature: Period Studies  3
   Historical survey of American literature of the Colonial Romantic period
   or the Realistics period, emphasizing "canonical" works of major writers
   along with selected "non-canonical" writings.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 651  Irish Literature: Period Studies  3
   Variable content. Study of a set of Irish writers related by genre or
   period, set in historical and political contexts.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 671  Studies in Fiction  3
   Special topics in the novel and short story. Topics may emphasize an
   author or authors, a type or types of fiction, a period or theme.
   Variable content.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 672  Studies in the Drama  3
   Special topics in an author or authors, a type or types of drama, a
   period or theme. Variable content.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 673  Studies in Poetry  3
   Special topics in a poet or poets, a type or movement, a period or
   theme. Variable content.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 677  The Structure of English  3
   See EDST677 for course description.

ENGL 680  Seminar  3

ENGL 684  Literary Theory and Criticism  3
   Introduction to some of the leading problems in contemporary literary
   theory, with some attention to their historical precedents.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 685  Cultural Theory and Criticism  3
   A topical introduction to cultural theory, emphasizing in different
   terms such varied topics as semiotics, deconstructionism, feminism, post-
   colonial and third-world studies, and problems of representation and
   signification in literary and non-literary texts.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 688  Teaching Composition  3
   Study of current composition theory, with emphasis on the relationship
   between theory and classroom practices.

ENGL 694  History of the English Language  3
   Development of Modern English, with emphasis on changes in sounds,
   inflections, spelling, and vocabulary. Attention also given to usage,
   dialects, attitudes toward language, and cultural history.

ENGL 802  Studies in Old and Middle English  3
   A study of the English language either from before 1100 or between 1100
   and 1400 with selected readings in Old or Middle English Poetry and
   prose.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 804  Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture  3
   Variable content. Intensive study of literature and language in Old
   English or Middle English, with attention to history and culture. Recent
   course titles: Chaucer, Beowulf, The Gawain-Poet, The Age of Langland,
   The Romance.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 806  Studies in Renaissance Literature  3
   Focuses on one or two authors (e.g., Shakespeare or Spenser), on genres
   (e.g., narrative verse and prose, the lyric, drama) or on specific
   periods (Elizabethan, Jacobean, the Civil War).

ENGL 815  Studies in Seventeenth-Century Literature  3
   Research seminars on writers (Donne and Jonson; Bacon, Browne, Hobbes,
   and Locke; the Fletchers, Cowley, and Milton); genres (classical,
   metaphysical, and neo-classical poetry; Jacobean, Caroline, and
   Restoration drama); or topics and themes (empiricism; skepticism; gender
   and society; literature of the civil wars; puritan culture).
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 820  Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature  3
   Variable content. Possible course topics include: The Restoration
   Theatre; English Neoclassicism; The Rise of the Novel; individual
   writers or groups of writers; applications of theory.

ENGL 830  Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature  3
   Seminar in Romantic and/or Victorian literature with emphasis on
   selected writers, genres, and/or topics. Possible course topics: women
   and nature poetry; Dickens; religious doubt; the provincial novel.

ENGL 840  Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature  3
   Variable content. Concentrated study of an aspect of Twentieth-Century
   British, European, American and/or post-colonial literatures. Possible
   focuses: a genre, a set of writers, cultural issues (e.g., gender, race,
   the Holocaust, aesthetics vs. politics).

ENGL 844  Seminar: Special Topics in American Literature  3
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 846  Seminar: Special Topics in English Literature  3
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 848  Special Topics in Comparative Literature  3
   Variable content. Possible course topics include: Existential
   literature, The Avant-Garde, and Literature and Aesthetics.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 850  Studies in Colonial American Literature  3
   Variable content: e.g., New England Puritanism, Southern Colonial
   Literature, and Major Early American Authors.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 852  Seminar: American Realism and Naturalism  3
   Classic works by Clemens, James, Crane, Chopin, Dreiser, Stein, and
   Wharton, with focus (1) on the practice of theory and aesthetic
   assumptions of current criticism and (2) on labels for the period
   (Realism, Naturalism) as formulations from specific literary texts
   (including some expurgated texts).
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 853  Modern/Postmodern American Literature  3
   Variable content. Modern American Novelists (Fitzgerald, Hemingway,
   Faulkner); modern and postmodern American novelists (Fitzgerald,
   Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow, Barth, Heller, Morrison, Pynchon);
   modernist poetry (Pound, Eliot, Stevens). Drama of the Absurd.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 868  Research  3

ENGL 869  Master's Thesis  1-6

ENGL 884  Studies in Literary and Cultural Theory  3
   Close examination of a single topic or a closely related group of topics
   (e.g., psychoanalysis and interpretation, genre theory, literary
   historiography, feminist critique) in textual study.
   PREREQ: ENGL684 or 685.
   RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ENGL 890  Studies in Linguistics  3
   See LING890 for course description.

ENGL 964  Pre-Candidacy Study  3-12  PF
   Research and readings in preparation of dissertation topic and/or
   qualifying examinations for doctoral students before admission to
   candidacy but after completion of all required course work.
   RESTRICTIONS: Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy.

ENGL 969  Doctoral Dissertation  1-12  PF

UNIV 895  Master's Sustaining: Non-Thesis  0  PF

UNIV 899  Master's Sustaining: Thesis  0  PF

UNIV 999  Doctoral Sustaining  0  PF