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Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature
Edgar Allan Poe School of English
The following courses are for graduates and advanced undergraduates.
English C1: The Novel: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—The first and second terms are devoted
to a study of the history and technique of the novel, English and American,
through the nineteenth century. The last term is devoted to a special study of
the technical development of the British novel from Butler and James to the
present time. The novels read begin with the period of Jane Austen.
Professor Wilson.
English C2: The Drama, Elizabethan and Later: Any two B courses in
the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—The Elizabethan
drama (exclusive of Shakespeare). Restoration and Eighteenth Century drama.
The modern British drama.
Associate Professor Gordon.
English C3: Literature and Thought in England, 1789-1832 (Romantic
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is
presumed, but is not prerequisite. English literature of the earlier nineteenth
century studied in relation to the history, literary biography, and thought of
the period. The course will link the fields of history and literature.
Associate Professor Davis.
English C4: Literature and Thought in England, 1832-1900 (Victorian
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is presumed,
but is not prerequisite. English literature of the middle and later
nineteenth century studied in relation to the history, literary biography, and
thought of the period. The course will link the fields of history and literature.
(Not offered in 1936-37.)
Associate Professor Davis.
English C5: Chaucer: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—A study of Chaucer's writings and background.
Professor Hench.
English C6: Literary Composition: Any two B courses in the Schools
of English Language and Literature prerequisite. This course, the enrollment
in which is restricted, is open only to those of proved aptitude in Composition
the particular field or form of composition best suited to the needs and abilities
of the individual student. Parallel reading. Conferences. By consent, also, this
course may be taken two years in succession.
Associate Professor Gordon.
English C7: Old English: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—Old English prose and poetry including
the whole of Beowulf.
Professor Hench.
English C8: Middle English: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—Lyrics of the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries and representative metrical romances. (Not offered in 1936-37.)
Professor Hench.
English C9: Prose Fiction of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries:
Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—Types
of pre-novel fiction, including the picaresque tale and the pastoral
and heroic romance. The major eighteenth century novelists. The Gothic romance
and the novel and manners in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries.
Assistant Professor Shepperson.
English C10: The History of the English Language: English B8 and
one other B course prerequisite.—A reading knowledge of Old English is
desirable. Old English and its pre-history. Old English Dialects. Middle
English dialects to the development of a standard language. Lectures, reading
of texts with interpretation of forms and constructions. Hours by appointment.
Associate Professor Hill.
English C11: Middle English: Two B courses prerequisite.—Prose and
Middle English Didactic Poetry. Hours by appointment.
Associate Professor Hill.
English C12: Spenser and Milton: Two B courses in English Literature
prerequisite.—Spenser's Minor Poems. The Fairie Queene. The Poetry of
Milton. (Not offered in 1936-37.)
Professor Metcalf.
English C13: English and American Biography: Two B courses in the
Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—The development of
biography as an art will be traced from Plutarch to the present, with a study
of representative biographies in English from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Parallel reading in the old and new biography, with frequent reports on
topics assigned.
Professor Metcalf.
The following courses are for advanced graduate students.
English D1: Seminar in American Literature: The work is centered
around the figures of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hours by
appointment. (Not offered in 1936-37.)
Professor Wilson.
English D2: Seminar in Early English Drama and Later Sixteenth Century
Prose Literature: The English drama from the liturgical to the early
Elizabethan plays, followed by a briefer study of Tudor prose writers. Hours
by appointment.
Professor Metcalf.
English D3: Shakespeare and his Times: Hours by appointment.
Professor Wilson.
English D4: The Renaissance in England: A study of some of the
persons and movements on the continent contributing to the renaissance in
England. Studies in the literature and thought of England in the fifteenth and
early sixteenth centuries. Hours by appointment.
Professor Hench.
English D5: Chaucer Seminar: English C5, or its equivalent, prerequisite.
—The complete works of Chaucer, with the exception of the prose, will be read,
with special attention to literary, bibliographical and historical problems. Each
student will be expected to give a term paper involving some research during the
third term. The course will be divided as follows: The Canterbury Tales.
Troilus and Cressida. The Minor Poems. Hours by appointment. Offered in
alternate years if two or more qualified students apply.
Associate Professor Hill.
English D6: Seminar in Modern English: English C10 prerequisite.—
The problems of Early Modern English and the interpretation of written
records.
Associate Professor Hill.
English D7: Advanced Phonetics and the Investigation of Spoken
English: English C10, or its equivalent, prerequisite.—Careful ear-training and
the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. The methods and aims of investigation
of living speech.
Associate Professor Hill.
English D8: Low German: English C10 and any other course in philology
prerequisite.—Study of texts and grammar of Old Saxon and Old Frisian.
Associate Professor Hill.
Note: English D6, D7, D8 will be offered when one or more qualified
students present themselves, but only two of the three courses will be offered
in any one year.
Germanics D1: Gothic: Open to Graduate Students in English.—Three
hours a week, first term, by appointment.
Associate Professor Wood.
Germanics D2: Old Norse: Open to Graduate Students in English.—Three
hours a week, by appointment.
Associate Professor Wood.
French D1: Old French: Open to Graduate Students in English.—1. The
development of the French language in the early medieval period. 2. French
literature from the beginnings down to the fourteenth century.
Associate Professor Mellor.
Note: Candidates for Masters' degrees in English are required to take at
least one of the following session-courses: English C5, C7, C8, C10, C11.
Candidates for the Ph.D. must have English C7 and such other courses in
language and literature as their major professors advise. Thesis subjects must
be submitted to the chairman of the department for faculty approval by November
15 of the final year of candidacy.
Preliminary Examination for the Doctorate in English: A student who
desires to become a candidate for the Doctor's degree in English should stand
a preliminary examination in October of the session preceding his final year of
candidacy, and must take this examination not later than October 1 of his last
year. The examination may be written or oral, or both, at the discretion of
the examiners. In case the examination is not satisfactory, the applicant may
be allowed, by permission of the examiners, to present himself for a second
trial after a lapse of at least one academic term. If this second trial is unsatisfactory,
no further examination will be allowed. At the discretion of the
professors concerned, in the case of a student who has received the Master's
degree from this institution, an exceptionally high rating on the work for
that degree, including the oral examination and thesis, may be accepted as the
equivalent of the preliminary examination for the doctorate. Subjects of
proposed dissertations should be submitted for faculty approval after consultation
with major professors.
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