060.100 (H)

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INTRODUCTION TO EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Kain / Staff Limit 10 Freshmen only / Permission Req'd    This course is designed to help less experienced writers succeed with the demands of college writing. Students work closely with instructors on 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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MTW 12

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060.107 (H)

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PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF LITERARY CRITICISM (3) Ferguson Limit 30 15   Required course for English majors   This course will involve analysis of a variety of literary texts (tales, poems, novels by Grimm Brothers, Poe, Austen, Dickens) and some consideration of narrative theory.

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ThF 10:30-12

060.113 (H)               (W)

EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Kain / Staff 
Limit 15 per section Permission Req'd. This course teaches students the concepts and strategies of academic argument. Students learn to analyze 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 in all sections is using analysis to create arguments; therefore, check individual section listings in July at the following website:

www.jhu.edu/ewp       

If you need to make a section change contact the English Department at 410-516-4311.

Section 23 added 03/30/05

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ThF 9-10:30

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ThF 12-1:30

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060.151 (H)

SHAKESPEARE (THEN AND NOW) (3) Halpern   Limit 20 per section  Shakespeare’s plays remain vital in part because of their engagement with perennially provocative topics: sexuality, politics, social intolerance, the often vexed relations between men and women, parents, and children. In this survey of some of the major comedies, histories and tragedies, we will both place Shakespeare’s plays in their historical context and consider their significance for present-day readers and audiences.This course has been designated a Gilman lecture course in the Humanities.

Lec.

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060.221 (H)                 (W)

19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) Moon    Limit 20 per section      Tales, novels, travel writing, slave narratives, and the beginning of modern poetry: Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Fuller, Melville, Douglass, Jacobs, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, and Gilman.

Lec.

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060.301 (H)

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THE BIBLE AS SCRIPTURE (3) Grossman  Limit 30   Study of the Old and New Testaments in English (New Revised Standard Version) with some references to the Koran.

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M 2-4:30

060.307 (H)

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TRAINING, WRITING, CONSULTING (1) Potts   Limit 10   Perm. Req'd

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T 5-7:30pm

060.313 (H)

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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.

Cross-listed with Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

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MW 2-3:30

060.314 (H)

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NEW ENGLAND PURITANS AND THEIR MODERN INTERLOCUTORS, 1620-1740 (3) Stein   Prereq: At least one English or W.G.S. course   Limit 15  
An introduction to interdisciplinary research methods. Puritan readings include Winthrop, Bradford, Cotton, Bradstreet, Taylor, Cotton Mather, Rowlandson, Edwards. Modern assessments drawn from biography, history, cultural criticism, feminism, literary analysis, theology.  Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Cross-listed with Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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ThF 1:30-3

060.330 (H)

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LITERATURE, TRAVEL, EMPIRE, 1700-1820 (3) O’Connell  Perm. Req'd. Limit 15 Prereq: At least one English course
How did 18th century British writers of travel accounts, cosmographies, and fiction represent encounters with foreign and/or colonized peoples, landscapes, and cultures? We will read accounts of Scotland, the Ottoman Empire, colonial American, India, the Caribbean and the South Seas. Authors may include Montague, Steele, Swift, Goldsmith, Johnson and Boswell, Cook, Hamilton.

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T 2-4:30

060.346 (H)

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ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN CHILDHOODS (3) Kent   Perm. Req'd. Limit 15   This course considers the figure of the child in relation to two problems in 19th century British literature, the abuse of political power and the role of environment in determining character.

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ThF10:30-12

060.372 (H)

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MELVILLE, POE, HAWTHORNE, STOWE (3) Cameron   Perm. Req'd. Limit 15  We shall read major fiction by Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, and Stowe, and consider how conceptions of identity are treated as psychological, philosophical, and historical problems in the writings of these authors. We shall also be concerned with the formal inventions that accompany these mid-19th century American investigations of personal identity, and with topics such as gothic horror; divinity; and the status of explanation.

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F 12-2:30

060.375 (H)

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POETRY AND ANALYSIS (3) Grossman   Limit 7  Permission Only Analysis of poetic text. Course added 05/05/05

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T 9, W 11

060.393 (H)

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COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL NATIONAL EPIC: ULYSSES AND MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN (3) Atell     Limit 15  This course will examine Ulysses And Midnight’s Children as attempts to write national epics in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Secondary readings will include texts in both narrative and postcolonial theory.

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W 2-4:30

220.379 (H)

ELIOT, CRANE, AND STEVENS (3) Irwin  Limit 15   Perm. Req'd. Cross-listed with Writing Seminars Course canceled 04/05/05

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M 3-6pm

220.394 (H)

FAULKNER, FITZGERALD, AND HEMINGWAY (3) Irwin Limit 16   Perm. Req'd. Cross-listed with Writing Seminars Course canceled 04/05/05

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W 3-6pm

360.375 (H,S)               (W)     

BEBOP, MODERNISM AND CHANGE (3) Limit 20   Hayes Cross-listed with Africana Studies, Interdepartmental, History, the Humanities Center, Political Science and Sociology Not crosslisted with the English Dept. 05/11/05

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ThF 2-3:30

060.501 

INDEPENDENT STUDY

060.505

INTERNSHIP

060.608

THE TUDOR AVANT-GARDE Halpern Limit 8   In their zest for formal and dramaturgical experiment and in their taste for the absurd, early Tudor plays seem to anticipate the avant-garde theater of the 20th century. They are, in any case, more daring in many respects than the works of the professional stage that succeeded them. We will read a broad sampling of these plays both in and out of their historical contexts. Course canceled 05/02/05

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F 1-4

060.648

GEORGE ELIOT Anderson  Limit 8   A seminar on Eliot’s novels and other writings, with special attention to the philosophical, sociological, and aesthetic dimensions of her realist project.

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T 9-12

060.678

MELVILLE, POE, HAWTHORNE, STOWE   Cameron  Limit 8   A reading of the major fiction of Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Stowe.

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Th 9-12

060.681

LITERARY THEORY  Ferguson   Limit 8 This seminar will survey key positions in literary theory in the past century, with an emphasis on “close reading,” “distant reading” and the theoretical justifications of reading practices.

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Th 1-4

060.689

EMBODIMENT/THEORY/FILM: MODERN AND MODERNIST TEXTS  Moon  Limit 8   Competing accounts of corporeal existence and experience in Poe, Melville, Dickens, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and William Burroughs; Bergson and Merleau-Ponty; selected silent, avant-garde, and non-fiction film.

Cross-listed with Film and Media Studies and Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

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M 2-5

060.695

POETRY IN HISTORY: POETRY IN ENGLISH SINCE 1945  Grossman   Limit 8 Poetry written in English or translated into English after Auschwitz and WWII – including, but not confined to, works by Robert Lowell, Allen Ginzberg, Phillip Larkin, Theodore Roethke, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Elisabeth Bishop, Frank O’Hara, Oppen, and Rilke and Celan as they come to be published in English in the period. Course canceled 05/31/05

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T 2-5

060.705

THEORY OF THE NOVEL  Tucker     Limit 8   Novels and writing about the novel, historical and contemporary. Course canceled 08/03/05

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F 9-12

300.671

STANLEY CAVELL’S “THE CLAIM OF REASON”  deVries

Cross-listed with Anthropology, German, the Humanities Center, Philosophy, Writing Seminars & Romance Languages and Literatures

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Th 10-1

300.677

TRANSCENDANCE & IMMANENCE: THEODOR W. ADORNO AND GILLES DELEUZE deVries/Marrati

Cross-listed with Anthropology, English, Philosophy, German, Romance Languages and Political Science

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T 1-4

060.893

INDIVIDUAL WORK.

060.895

JOURNAL CLUB

TBA