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| ENGLISH |
| 060.100 (H) (W) |
EXPOSITORY WRITING FOR
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS (3) Staff Limit 10 Perm.
Req'd. This course helps non-native writers develop
the skills necessary for academic argument. It emphasizes developing
fluency, writing with sources, organizing ideas, and editing for
clarity. |
Sec.
01 |
MTW
1 |
| 060.107 (H) (W) |
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF LITERARY CRITICISM
(3)
Moon Limit 15 Introduction to literary studies: analysis of
narrative, metaphor, prosody, and genre in selected works of Aristotle,
Sophocles, Milton, Wilde, Austen, Woolf, and Jamaica Kincaid. |
Sec. 01 |
ThF
10:30-12 |
| 060.113 (H) (W) |
EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Staff Limit 15 per section. Perm
Req'd. Teaches techniques of academic argument, the
habits of experienced writers, using sources, and revising for
effective style. Each section centers on a different topic; see
website for details: www.jhu.edu/ewp/courses |
Sec. 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21 |
MTW 9
MTW 9
MTW 10
MTW 10
MTW 11
MTW 11
MTW 12
MTW 12
MTW 12
MTW 1
MTW 1
ThF 9-10:30
ThF 9-10:30
ThF 10:30-12
ThF 10:30-12
ThF 10:30-12
ThF 12-1:30
ThF 12-1:30
ThF 12-1:30
ThF 1:30-3
ThF
1:30-3 |
| 060.151 (H) (W) |
SHAKESPEARE (3) Halpern Limit 20 per section
A survey of the major comedies, histories, and tragedies with
attention to their historical and theatrical contexts. |
Lec.
Sec.
01
02
03
04 |
ThF
12
W 12
W
12
W
12
W
12 |
| 060.173 (H) (W) |
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY
CULTURES: READING, WRITING, REPRESENTING (3) Harper Limit 20 per section
Survey of African Americans’ engagement with
literacy from the 18th c. to the present. Focus on the uses to
which African-American populations have put the modes of literacy
to which they have historically had access. We will consider verse
and addresses from the Enlightenment and Romantic periods, abolitionist
tracts and uplift novels from the Antebellum era and Reconstruction,
realist and modernist literary fiction from the Harlem Renaissance
and after, and contemporary pop-cultural forms like slam poetry
and cinematic depictions of the writing life. Cross listed
with Center for Africana Studies
Section
02 cancelled 8/12/04
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Lec.
Sec.01
02
03
04 |
ThF
1
W
1
W
1
W
1
W
1 |
| 060.177 (H) (W) |
MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE
(3) Mosely
Limit 40 20
Cross listed with Center for Jewish Studies |
Sec.
01 |
ThF
10:30-12 |
| 060.253 (H) (W) |
UNDERSTANDING POETRY (3)
Paulson
Limit 15 The seminar will revisit, test,
and contextualize the New Critical approach to the reading of
poetry, using the classic Brooks-Warren text, Understanding
Poetry. |
Sec.
01 |
T
2-4:30 |
| 060.274 (H) (W) |
AFRO-CARIBBEAN WOMEN NOVELISTS
(3)
Goldberg Limit 15 20th Century novels
by such authors as Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Patricia Powell,
and Paule Marshall Cross listed with Center
for Africana Studies and Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality |
Sec.
01 |
ThF
2-3:30 |
| 060.307 (H) (W) |
TRAINING, WRITING, CONSULTING
(1) (3)
Matthews Limit 10 Perm. Req=d |
Sec.
01 |
T
5-7:30pm |
| 060.313 (H) (W) |
THE BODY IN EARLY MODERNITY
(3) Evans
Limit
15 Examination of philosophical, political and aesthetic representations
of embodiment, drawn mostly from the early modern period. “Bodies”
studied will include Hobbes’ leviathan, Descartes’ cogito, and
Frankenstein’s monster. |
Sec.
01 |
MW
2-3:30 |
| 060.323 (H) (W) |
BRITISH LITERATURE AND
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (3) During Limit
15 This
course examines the cultural ferment that followed the French
Revolution
by reading important British novels, poems and essays by authors
like Austen, Wordsworth and Mary Shelley. |
Sec.
01 |
W
2-4:30 |
| 060.324 (H) (W) |
THE GOTHIC (3) O’Connell Limit
15 Perm.
Req'd. A survey of the Gothic tradition from its origins
in the eighteenth-century to its revival within contemporary Goth
subcultures. Authors include Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis, Hogg,
Stoker and Stevenson. |
Sec.
01 |
M
2-4:30 |
| 060.336 (H) (W) |
VICTORIAN LITERATURE
1830-1900 (3) Tucker Limit
15 A survey of major Victorian novels, poetry, and prose. Authors
include Dickens, Eliot, Mill, Browning, Tennyson, Collins, and
Darwin. Course added 5/24/04. |
Sec.
01 |
Th
1-3:30 |
| 060.339 (H) (W) |
THE NOVEL IN FILM (3) Hong Limit 15
Perm Req'd. An examination of the
novels of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Virginia
Woolf, along with their film adaptations. Some of the issues
considered are the nature and process of adapting a textual to
a visual medium and the relation between words, images, and moving
pictures. |
Sec.
01 |
ThF10:30-12 |
| 060.362 (H) (W) |
THE THEME OF EQUALITY
IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1865 – 1900 (3) Potts Limit
15 Perm. Req'd. Are “all men created
equal?’ This course examines how postbellum American literature
engages issues of equality in relation to: democracy, opportunity,
merit, welfare, capacity, race and sex. |
Sec.
01 |
TW
2-3:30 |
| 060.363 (H) (W) |
HENRY JAMES (3) Cameron Perm.
Req'd. Limit 15 |
Sec.
01 |
F
12-2:30 |
| 060.376 (H) (W) |
JEWISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM
THE RENAISSANCE TO THE 20TH CENTURY (3) Mosely Limit 20 Cross listed with Center
for Jewish Studies |
Sec.
01 |
Th
2-4:30 |
| 360.109 (H,S) (W) |
FAULKNER, MORRISON, AND
RACIAL IDENTITY (3)
Rockefeller Limit 25 20
A survey of the authors' major works that pays particular attention
to Morrison’s critique of Faulkner’s notion of racial identity.
Does Morrison propose a desirable alternative? Cross-listed
with Interdepartmental,
Center for Africana Studies and Writing Seminars |
Sec.
01 |
ThF
1-2:30 |
| 300.303 (H) (W) |
EARLY MODERN WOMEN WRITERS: POETRY OF THE EUROPEAN
RENAISSANCE (3)
Patton Limit 15 Cross-listed with Humanities Center
and Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality |
Sec.
01 |
T
1-3 |
| 300.361
(H) |
LITERATURES
OF TIME (3) deVries Limit 20 Can literature recount (the experience of)
time where philosophy, psychology, and cosmology must, as some
have argued, fail? Readings include selections from Augustine,
Heidegger, Ricoeur, Proust, Mann, Beckett, Celan, Blanchot. Cross-listed
with Anthropology, Philosophy, German, Humanities, Writing Seminars,
and Romance Languages and Literatures |
Sec. 01 |
T 10:30-1 |
| 220.379 (H) |
ELIOT, CRANE, AND STEVENS (3) Irwin Limit 15 Perm. Req=d.
Cross-listed with Writing Seminars |
Sec.
01 |
M
3-6pm |
| 220.394 (H) |
FAULKNER, FITZGERALD, AND HEMINGWAY (3) Irwin
Limit
16 Perm. Req=d.
Cross-listed with Writing Seminars |
Sec.
01 |
W
3-6pm |
| 060.501 |
INDEPENDENT STUDY |
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| 060.505 |
INTERNSHIP |
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| 060.615 |
SHAKESPEARE Halpern Limit
8 An
advanced introduction to the major plays with emphasis on philosophical,
psychoanalytic, and aesthetic approaches. |
Sec.
01 |
F
1-4 |
| 060.621 |
HOW TO DO THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY Goldberg Limit 8 Recent works in the history
of sexuality and a range of literary texts from the 17th through
the early 20th century. Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender and
Sexuality |
Sec.
01 |
F
9-12 |
| 060.647 |
REALISM, ROMANTICISM AND
EVERDAY LIFE During Limit 8 This
course will examine shifting and complex relations between literature
and everyday life from about 1700 to 1820 partly in the light
of current cultural-studies theories of the everyday. |
Sec.
01 |
T
2-5 |
| 060.655 |
GENDER AND MODERNITY Anderson
Limit 8 A
seminar on the concepts of gender and modernity in theoretical
and literary texts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Cross-listed
with Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality |
Sec.
01 |
W
9-12 |
| 060.670 |
HENRY JAMES Cameron Limit
8 |
Sec.
01 |
Th
9-12 |
| 060.684 |
EXPERIENCE/ IDENTITY/ MODERNISM Moon Limit 8 Technologies of the self,
technologies of the "not-self" in modernist writing
(William James, Stein, Faulkner, Ellison) and related media (film,
jazz). |
Sec.
01 |
W
2-5
Th 1-4 |
| 060.705 |
THEORY OF THE NOVEL
Tucker Limit 8 Novels and writing about the novel,
historical and contemporary. This course was canceled on 5/24/04.
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Sec.
01
|
Th
1-4
W 2-5 |
| 300.671 |
STANLEY
CAVELL’S “THE CLAIM OF REASON” deVries
Cross-listed with Anthropology, German,Humanities, Philosophy,
Writing Seminars & Romance Languages and Literatures |
Sec. 01 |
Th 10-1 |
| 060.893 |
INDIVIDUAL WORK |
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| 060.895 |
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