ENGL 225: Monsters Within: Violence in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

1 unit
Prerequisites: Completion with a 2.0 or better of one unit numbered ENGL 120 to ENGL 189, or permission of instructor.
A study of the pervasive issue of violence in early literature, including the way that literature both encodes and challenges the structural violence of race, class, and gender. Texts range from warrior epics of the migration era to the tragedies of Shakespeare. MacInnes