ENGLISH

060.107(H)
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INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY (3) Halpern   Limit 18 Required course for English majors 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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ThF 1:30-3

060.113(H)
(W)

EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Kain / Staff  Limit 15 per section   No Seniors   This course 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

June 14: Course titles will be listed for individual sections.
June 21: Complete course descriptions will be listed for individual sections.

Secs. 15 & 16 canceled 6/11/07
Sec. 09 canceled 6/13/07
Sec. 20 added 8/23/07
Sec. 19 canceled 8/23/07

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060.151 (H)

SHAKESPEARE (THEN AND NOW) (3) HalpernLimit 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.

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060.206 (H)

MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS (3) Cameron   Limit 20 per section; Reading from Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Henry James, Frost, Wallace Stevens, and Flannery O’Connor.

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060.302 (H)
(W)

FORMS OF EARLY MODERN DRAMA (OR, HOW TO DO WITHOUT SHAKESPEARE) (3) Daniel   Limit 18 Prereq: For Juniors and Seniors who have taken at least one English course. This seminar will chart the development of early modern English drama, and provide an “exploded view” of its wildly diverse forms. Starting with a preparatory examination of medieval pageants and miracle plays, we will read Renaissance revenge tragedies, city comedies, closet dramas, court entertainments and masques, as well as Puritan anti-dramatic writings. Authors will include: Kyd, Marlowe, Webster, Ford, Middleton, Jonson, Prynne, and Milton.

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W 2-4:30

060.307 (H)
(W)

TRAINING, WRITING, CONSULTING (1) McCray-Worrall   Limit 10  Perm. Req’d

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T 5-7:30pm

060.321 (H)
(W)

FORMS OF THE 18TH CENTURY NOVEL (3) O'Connell Limit 18  The novel took its modern form in the eighteenth century, but it also immediately divided into different genres. This course offers an overview of its various forms and their literary, social, political, and religious underpinnings. Genres include amatory fiction, the traveler's tale, domestic fiction, the novel of sensibility, the picaresque, the gothic, the political novel, the courtship novel, and historical fiction. Course added 6/11/07

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F 12-2:30

060.323 (H)
(W)

BRITISH LITERATURE AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (3) During Limit 18   This course will introduce students to the cultural ferment that followed the French Revolution by examining a number of important British novels, poems, and essays of the period.

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T 2-4:30

060.327 (H)
W)

CHAOS AND ORDER IN THE 18TH CENTURY (3) Molesworth Limit 18  Must have taken one English course   This course explores the concepts of chaos and order (in their scientific, philosophical, and literary contexts) in works by Alexander Pope, Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, and William Blake.

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M 2-4:30

060.332 (H)
(W)

POETRY AND POETICS (3) Staff Limit 18 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. Course canceled 05/23/07

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ThF 10:30-12

060.347 (H)
(W)

SLAVES, PIRATES, AND (OTHER) PERSONS OF PROPERTY: THE CHARACTER OF INEQUALITY IN BRITISH LITERATURE, 1750-1850 (3)  Stout Limit 18   This course situates the British movement for slavery's abolition within a longer history of the relationships between persons and property as reflected in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century law and literature. Course canceled 05/23/07

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ThF 9-10:30

060.354 (H)
(W)

MARRIAGE AND LITERATURE (3) Jarvis  Limit 18  Note: Anyone who has taken 060.223 in Fall 2006 is not eligible for this course This course reads a variety of historical literary texts to examine why “marriage” is such a vexed and contentious term. Authors surveyed include Defoe, Austen, Mill, Ruskin, Hardy and Woolf.
Cross-listed with Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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MW 2-3:30

060.356  (H)
(W)

REALISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN 19TH CENTURY ENGLAND (3)  Fry Limit 18  Prereq: Must have taken one English course  This course examines how literary realism served not only as a reflection of but also as a response to the new social challenges presented in 19th century England. Course readings include works from Wordsworth, Eliot, Gaskell and Collins. Course canceled 6/06/07

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ThF 12-1:30

060.361 (H) (W)

NATURE AND IDENTITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1804-1913 (3)  Taylor Limit 18  Prereq: Must have taken one English course  This course will examine various accounts of the relationship between nature and personal identity in American writing, from Lewis and Clark’s expedition to the period immediately prior to WWI.

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ThF 1:30-3

060.368 (H) (W)

THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP (3)  Mao   Limit 18  Studies in one of the most influential coteries in the history of British intellectual life. Authors may include Forster, Eliot, Keynes, Strachey, Fry, abd Virginia and Leonard Woolf.

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TW 2-3:30

060.391 (H)
(W)

INTRODUCTION TO 20TH CENTURY AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) Conn  Limit 18   This course explores a wide range of 20th century African-American writing.  Topics and writers include: Du Bois, the Harlem Renaissance, Wright, Hurston, the Black Arts Movement, Morrison, and Octavia Butler.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

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MW 3:30-5

362.200 (H)

AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY AND POETICS (3) Robbins  Limit 25 This course will explore the category, history, and development of African American poetry from Phillis Wheatley to the present.  We will focus on poetry and poetics specifically but will consider the general movement of literature produced by African American writers over the course of three centuries. We will read works by the key contributors to this particular American literary tradition with the goal of understanding the aesthetic, cultural, and critical legacy of African-American poetry to the American literary and musical sensibility of the 21st century.  From 18th century odes to 19th century shouts and spirituals to the jazz poets of the Harlem Renaissance to Black Arts poetry to the blues, hip hop, and rap tradition, we will examine the role that race, cultural identity, legal status, and the impersonal structures (or shackles) of poetic forms have played in shaping and reshaping African American verse.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

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MW 10-12

220.409(H)

READINGS IN FICTION: FAULKNER, FITZGERALD, AND HEMINGWAY (3) Irwin  Limit 15 Perm. Req’d   (Formerly 220.394)
Cross-listed with Writing Seminars

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M 3-6pm

060.501

INDEPENDENT STUDY

060.505

INTERNSHIP - ENGLISH

060.629

LITERATURE, RELIGION, AND BRITISH MODERNITY  During   Limit 8 This course will explore the relation between theology, church-state relations, and British literature in the long eighteenth century.

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Th 1-4

060.651
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19TH CENTURY REALISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE  Anderson  Limit 8  This course will use three major novels of the nineteenth-century (Bleak House,  Middlemarch, and The Way We Live Now) as the occasion to explore key debates on realism.

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T 2-5

060.665

WHITMAN AND DICKINSON Cameron  Limit 8  A study of two major nineteenth-century American poets.

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Th 8:30-11:30

060.691

MODERNISM AND THE PLACE OF UTOPIA Mao Limit 8 An examination of modernist representations of two kinds of places, houses and utopias. Authors may include Forster, Huxley, Joyce, Waugh, Wells, Woolf, Yeats. Some theoretical readings as well.

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T 9-12 Th 8:30-11:30

060.893

INDIVIDUAL WORK.

060.895

JOURNAL CLUB

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