ENGLISH

060.100 (H)
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INTRODUCTION TO EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Staff   Freshmen Only
Limit 10 per section   Offered only in the fall, this course is designed to help less experienced writers succeed with the demands of college writing.  Students learn how to read and summarize texts, how to analyze texts, and how to organize their thinking in clearly written essays.  Emphasis is on analysis and the skills that analysis depends upon.

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MWF 10-10:50

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MW 12-1:15

MW 1:30-2:45

TTh 1:30-2:45

060.107 (H)
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INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY (3) Staff   Limit 18   Required course for English majors  Consider this course your initiation into the mystery cult of literary
criticism. We will examine how various literary forms--poetry, folktales, essays, short fiction, novels--work. Assigned readings may include Native American myths, selections from the Bible, Donne, Keats, Gilman, Melville, Borges. To lend moral support to our efforts, many of the texts we read will be metaliterary in nature, that is, pieces of writing about the pleasures and perils of writing and reading.

Introduction to the analysis of poetry and prose fiction.  Prose works by the Brothers Grimm, Poe, Hawthorne, James and Nabokov; poems by Shakespeare, Donne, Keats, Dickinson, Stevens and many others.

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TTh 10:30-11:45

TTh 1:30-2:45

060.113 (H) (W)

EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Staff  Limit15 per section   No Seniors This cour se teaches students the concepts and strategies of academic argument.  Students learn to analyze and evaluate sources, to develop their thinking with evidence, and to use analysis to write clear and persuasive arguments.  Each section focuses on its own intellectually stimulating topic or theme, but the central subject of all sections is using analysis to create arguments.Please note: Each course has a different topic. To check individual course descriptions, go to the EWP web site: http://web.jhu.edu/ewp  

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MWF 11-11:50
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MWF 12-12:50
MW 12-1:15
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MW 1:30-2:45
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TTh 9:00-10:15
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TTh 10:30-11:45
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TTh  12-1:15
TTh  12-1:15
TTh 1:30-2:45
TTh 1:30-2:45

060.159 257 (H)
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AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: HIGHSMITH, BURROUGHS, DICK (3) Daniel   Limit 18   Freshmen and sophomores are encouraged to take this course. only  These three authors share a common starting point: Patricia Highsmith, William S. Burroughs and Philip K. Dick all began their careers writing mass market genre fiction in pre-Stonewall, pre-civil rights, Cold War 1950s America. Absorbing the stylistic codes of their respective marketplaces of suspense writing and lesbian romance, "drug fiend" confessional, and science fiction, each writer's conformist apprenticeship in pulp resurfaces in increasingly nightmarish forms in the violent and paranoid scenarios that dominate their mature work. Reading broadly in each author's short fiction, novels, and prose, we will sequentially examine Highsmith's free indirect discourse gone wrong, Burroughs' "cut-up" techniques and "routines", and Dick's disorienting temporal experiments as inflamed allergic reactions to generic codes. We will also examine the cinematic afterlives of these authors by looking at three adaptations of their work: Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), David Cronenberg's Naked  Lunch (1991), and Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly (2006). Likely Texts: Patricia Highsmith Strangers On a Train, The Price of Salt, Edith's Diary; William S. Burroughs Junky, The Naked Lunch, The Place of Dead Roads; Philip K. Dick Eye in the Sky, Time Out of Joint, A Scanner Darkly.

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T 3-5:30

060.201 (H)

19TH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL (3) Anderson  Limit 20 per section   In this course we will read major novelists of the nineteenth century, including Austen, Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Collins, and Hardy.

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MW 11-11:50

F 11-11:50

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F 11-11:50

060.250 (H)

A SURVEY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AND ROMANTIC LITERATURE (3) Ferguson Limit 20 per section    
The course will include readings that identify major literary innovations of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England--from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Pope's technique of using literature to criticize his contemporaries to Sterne's cultivation of sentiment to Wordsworth's efforts to simplify the language of poetry and to let it speak a language less learned and more colloquial and to Austen's depiction of courtship and marriage as a system.
Cross-listed with Studies of Women Gender and Sexuality

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060.305 210 (H)

ANCIENT TRAGEDY, MODERN THOUGHT (3) Halpern   Limit 18  We will read major plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and consider the ways in which Greek tragedy served as a spur to thought for modern philosophers and theorists such as Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Kierkegaard, Butler and others. 

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Th 1:30-4

060.329 224 (H)

HEAVEN AND HELL IN EARLY AMERICA (3) Noble   Limit 18  This course examines the religious imagination of 17th- and 18th-century American writers, paying special attention to the extremes in religious belief that both shape and threaten pre-revolutionary American social formations.

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TTh 12-1:15

060.337 (H)

JAMES JOYCE (3) Mao Limit 18  A seminar covering the oeuvre of James Joyce, including but not limited to Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and parts of Finnegans Wake. Selected readings in other writers and in relevant historiography; some attention to Joyce criticism.

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T 1:30-4

060.343 (H)

AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY TRADITIONS FROM THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES (3) Mott Limit 18  This course introduces students to a wide range of literary texts written by and about African Americans from the antebellum period through the 1980s. While literature itself will ground the course, the historical, social, and political conditions out of which this literature emerged will drive both our understanding and examination of what scholars have termed an "African American literary tradition." Cross-listed with Africana Studies Course added 4/10/08

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W 1:30-4

060.367 (H)

EDWARDS, EMERSON, THOREAU (3) Cameron   Limit 18   Prereq: Two lower level English courses   Juniors and Seniors only   We shall examine what “divinity,” “nature,” “Being in general” and “personal identity ” differently mean in the writings of Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Thoreau (the emphasis will be on the two nineteenth-century American writers). We shall also examine features of the prose as well as the genres in which the three authors write: the sermon, the treatise, the journal entry, the lecture, and the essay.

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F 1:30-4

214.370 (H)
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MAGIC AND MARVEL IN THE RENAISSANCE (3) Stephens  Limit 20 Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures and History

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T 2-4:30

300.363 (H) (W)

READING JUDITH SHAKESPEARE WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND (3)  Patton   Limit 15   Cross-listed with the Humanities Center and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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TTh 3-4:15

060.501 

INDEPENDENT STUDY   Individual study projects proposed by a student to any member of the department. Prerequisite: Six hours of English beyond the introductory courses, with grades of ‘A’ or ‘B’, and permission of instructor.

060.505 

INTERNSHIP - ENGLISH

060.509
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SENIOR ESSAY Staff                
The English Department offers qualified majors the option of writing a senior essay.
This is to be a one-semester project undertaken in the fall of the senior year, resulting in an essay of 30-35 pages. The senior essay counts as a three-credit course which can be applied toward the requirements for the major. Each project will be assigned both an advisor and a second reader. In addition, students writing essays will meet as a group with the DUS once or twice in the course of the project. The senior essay option is open to all students with a cumulative GPA of 3.8 or higher in English Department courses at the end of the fall term of their junior year. Project descriptions (generally of one to two pages) and a preliminary bibliography should be submitted to a prospective advisor selected by the student from the core faculty. All proposals must be received at least two weeks prior to the beginning of registration period during the spring term of the junior year. Students should meet with the prospective advisor to discuss the project in general terms before submitting a formal proposal. The advisor will determine whether the proposed project is feasible and worthwhile. Individual faculty need not direct more than one approved senior essay per academic year. Acceptance of a proposal will therefore depend on faculty availability as well as on the strength of the proposal itself. When completed, the senior essay will be judged and graded by the advisor in consultation with the second reader. The senior essay will not be part of the Department’s honors program, which will continue to be based solely on a cumulative GPA of 3.6 in English Department courses. 

060.607

READING AND WRITING IN THE ROMANTIC ERA (3) Ferguson  Limit 8     This seminar will focus on major literature of the Romantic era and the systems of transmission through which they were disseminated. We'll read writers like Burke, Wollstonecraft, and Paine on the French Revolution, examine influential anthologies and the reading publics that they were directed toward, read a selection of Wordsworth's poetry including the posthumously published Prelude and writings like DeQuincey's that provided advance notice of it before its publication and conclude with prose and poetry of Shelley and Keats.

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T 1-3:50

060.659

READING EARLY MODERN AFFECT (FROM HUMOR TO PASSION)  Daniel  Limit 8    This course asks what difference the re-introduction of "humor" and "passion" might make into the recent constellation of theoretical writings on feeling, emotion, and affect. How might these philosophical and physiological categories from the intellectual history of early modernity complicate, estrange, or re-organize recent critical accounts of embodiment and psychic life? Tracing a historical transformation from sixteenth century "humors" to seventeenth century "passions", we will consider a range of early modern texts including Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, Jonson's Every Man in His Humour, Burton's preface to The Anatomy of Melancholy, Milton's "L'Allegro and Il Penseroso", Descartes' The Passions of the Soul (1649), and Spinoza's Ethics (1677) in conjunction with a select group of critical texts on feeling, emotion and affect from Sartre, Paster, Sedgwick, Ngai, Massumi, and Terada.

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W 1-3:50

060.662

EDWARDS, EMERSON AND THOREAU Cameron   Limit 8   We shall examine what “divinity,” “nature,” “Being in general” and “personal identity” differently mean in the writings of Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau (the emphasis will be on the two nineteenth-century American writers); how “the intuitively beheld and immediately felt” (what Edwards called “experiential religion”) are contrastively understood in the writings of the three; and to what end these literary and philosophical writings marginalize persons-- and even evacuate them--from their scrutiny. We shall also examine features of the prose (Edwards’s “rhetoric of sensation”; Emerson’s contra-dictions; Thoreau’s infatuation with particulars), and the genres in which the three authors write: the sermon, the treatise, the journal entry, the lecture, and the essay. Finally, we shall consider Adorno’s proposition in “The Essay as Form” that discontinuity is essential to the essay, that “the essay rebels against the doctrine, deeply rooted since Plato, that what is transient and ephemeral is unworthy of philosophy.”

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Th 9-12

060.672
         

JAMES JOYCE Mao  Limit 8   A seminar covering the oeuvre of James Joyce, including but not limited to Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and parts of Finnegans Wake. Substantial readings in other writers and in relevant historiography; substantial attention to the history of Joyce criticism and Joyce s literary legacies.

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T 9-12 Th 1-4 W 9-12

213.614

PROTO-MODERNIST FICTION, 1890-1914 Caplan, M.   Limit 15    All readings and discussions conducted in English.   Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies

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Th 1-3

214.678

ARIOSTO Stephens Limit 15 
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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M 5-7pm

060.893

INDIVIDUAL WORK

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TBA