ENGLISH

060.100 (H)

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INTRODUCTION TO EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Kain / Staff   Freshmen Only Limit 10 per section   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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060.107 (H)

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INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY (3) Ferguson   Limit 30   Required course for English majors   We’ll consider various literary forms: a selection of fairly short poems, folk tales, short stories (Edgar Allen Poe and Zora Neale Hurston), and novels.

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MW 2-3:30

060.113 (H)

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EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Kain / Staff  Limit 15 per section   Perm. Req’d for Seniors   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. To check individual course descriptions, go to the following web site: http://web.jhu.edu/ewp

Sec. 13 canceled 7/05/06 Sec. 13 reinstated 8/07/06

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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. Sec. 04 added 04/28/06

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060.176 (H)

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THE RUSSIAN NOVEL (3) Cameron   Limit 18   Freshmen and Sophomores only Readings include War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. A consideration of what makes these works “titanic. Course canceled 4/10/06

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F 12-2:30

060.223 (H)

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MARRIAGE PROBLEMS (3)   Jarvis, Claire Limit 18   Prereq: One English course  What is “marriage”?  This course reads a variety of historical literary texts to examine why “marriage” is currently such a vexed and contentious term.

Dean’s Teaching Fellowship course Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

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MTW 1

060.260 (H)

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MODERNISM AND MODERNITY (3) Attell   Limit 20 per section  A survey of key texts by major figures of literary modernism (1900-1945) in the United States, England, and Ireland. Authors will include: Conrad, Eliot, Faulkner, Hughes, Joyce, Pound, Stein, Stevens, Woolf, and others.

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060.307 (H)

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

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T 5-7:30pm

060.310 (H)

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TRAGEDY (3) Halpern   Limit 9   Must have taken one English Dept. literature course.  Revenge tragedy from Aeschylus to Quentin Tarantino, with emphasis on the form as developed during the English Renaissance by Shakespeare and others. Course canceled 4/10/06

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ThF 1:30-3

060.318 (H)

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ENLIGHTENMENT, COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE NOVEL (3) Molesworth Limit 18   This course examines the extent to which the 18th century novel participated in the philosophical, scientific, and political project known as "Enlightenment" and the extent to which it resisted. Course added 4/11/06

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M 2-4:30

060.332 (H)

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POETRY AND POETICS (3) Jarvis, Simon   Limit 18   Must have taken one English literature course.   This course is particularly concerned with the sensuous or material aspects of poetry (rhythm, metre, “instrumentation”, lineation) and with the possible working-out of an aesthetics adequate to them.

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ThF 10:30-12

060.335 (H)

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SPACES, PLACES, AND BOUNDARIES IN 19TH CENTURY FICTION Armstrong  
Limit 18   Must have taken one English literature course.   We explore the way 19th-century novelists create living spaces, whether domestic, urban or colonial, from Frankenstein to Conrad. We’ll also address theories of social space and cultural geography.

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W 2-4:30

060.384 (H)

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INTERRACIAL INTIMACY AND THE AMERICAN NOVEL (3) Conn    Limit 18  Must have taken one English literature course.   This course examines the novel of interracial intimacy in light of the social, legal, and literary context of intermarriage and interracial sex. Course readings include Faulkner, Baldwin, Kerouac, Himes, and others.

Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

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T 2-4:30

060.388 (H)

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THE RUSSIAN NOVEL (3) Cameron Limit 18   Juniors and seniors only. Must have taken two lower level English courses. “If there is no God, how can I be a captain?” We shall examine this and other philosophical, historical, and religious questions in Tolstoy’s and Dostoyevsky’s novels. Readings include War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Idiot, and The Brother’s Karamazov. Course canceled 4/10/06

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Th 12-2:30

220.394 (H) 

FAULKNER, FITZGERALD & HEMINGWAY (3) Irwin Limit 15   Perm. Req’d. Cross-listed with Writing Seminars

060.501 

INDEPENDENT STUDY

060.505 

INTERNSHIP - ENGLISH

060.613

THE CONTINENTAL RENAISSANCE  Halpern   Limit 8 Major prose works (in translation) by Machiavelli, Castiglione, Erasmus, Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes. We will attend to early modern rhetoric and to the pre-history of the novel. Course added 4/10/06

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F 9-12

060.623

REVENGE TRAGEDY  Halpern   Limit 9 Must have taken one English Dept. literature course.  Revenge tragedy from Aeschylus to Quentin Tarantino, with emphasis on the form as developed during the English Renaissance by Shakespeare and others. Course canceled 4/11/06

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ThF 1:30-3

060.634

RICHARDSON’S CLARISSA, LITERARY CRITICISM, AND ACCOUNTS OF READING Ferguson   Limit 8   We’ll read Richardson’s very substantial novel Clarissa, analyze how it was anthologized, survey the history of its criticism, and think about the impact of scale in novels.  Open to Juniors and Seniors by permission only Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality

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T 2-5pm

060.644

HEGEL: PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT  Jarvis, Simon  Limit 8   We shall aim to work through the whole of this text (in Miller’s translation). The only required reading each week will be the relevant section of the Phenomenology. The course will also consider some of the Phenomenology’s philosophical and literary-theoretical afterlives.

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F 1-4

060.654

IMAGINARY SPACES: SPACE, PLACE, AND BOUNDARY IN THE 19TH CENTURY NOVEL   Armstrong  Limit 8   We address the crucial importance of the novelists's imagination of space in major fiction of the 19th century, through close reading, together with conceptual explorations of spcae from Kant to Merleau-Ponty.

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Th 1-4

060.657

THE CONDITION OF CULTURE NOVEL IN BRITAIN FROM 1890s TO THE PRESENT  Mulhern   Limit 8 Rhetorics of cultural evaluation and formative historical contexts of writing in the novel in Britain: Hardy, Forster, Lawrence, Woolf, Waugh, Spark, Fowles, Naipaul, Rendell, Amis, Kureishi, Smith.

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T 9-12

060.893

INDIVIDUAL WORK.

060.895

JOURNAL CLUB

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