060.107 (H)
             (W)

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF LITERARY CRITICISM (3) Halpern Limit 15   This course is required for English majors. Introduction to the analysis of poetry and prose fiction. Works by Poe, James, Woolf, Nabokov, and others.

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

060.114 (H)
             (W)

EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Staff Limit 15 per section. Perm. Req'd prior to January 31, 2005. Teaches fundamental concepts of academic argument, including problem and motive, thesis, evidence, structure, counter-argument, style.  Students learn to analyze sources, to develop their own ideas with evidence, and to write clear and persuasive arguments that use sources fairly and well.  Individual course descriptions at www.jhu.edu/~ewp/sp2005.htm

Note: 060.114.17 is cross-listed with Sociology
060.114.10 is cross-listed with Africana Studies

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15

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17

MTW 10 9

MTW 10

MTW 10

MTW 11 10

MTW 11

MTW 12 11

MTW 12

MTW 1 12

MTW 1

MTW 2

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

060.121 (H)
             (W)

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. 
Cross-listed with Jewish Studies
 

Sec. 01

M 2-4:30

060.178 (H)
             (W)

AN INTRODUCTION TO YIDDISH LITERATURE (3) Moseley   Limit 15   Traces the development of Yiddish literature from its inception to the post-Holocaust period. Authors include: Gluckel of Hameln, Y.L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, Chaim Grade. All readings in English.  Cross-listed with Jewish Studies    

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

060.206 (H)

MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS (3)  Cameron  Limit 20 per section Perm. Req'd prior to January 31, 2005 Reading from Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Henry James, Frost, Wallace Stevens, and Flannery O’Connor.

Lec.

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02

03

04

060.215 (H)
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ADVANCED EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Kain   Limit 12 Perm Req’d.   Designed for juniors and seniors but open to all students who have taken Expository Writing.  Focuses on the same goals as 060.114 with more complex and more independent writing projects, including at least one substantial essay of students’ own design. Course closed 02/01/05

Sec. 01

MTW  1

060.320 (H)

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LITERATURE & POLITICS IN THE EARLY U.S. 1774-1798 (3) Stein   Limit 15  Focus on the connections between: independence and political freedom; Federalism and family forms; social mobility and moral salvation; gender rights and discourse; property and intimacy.  Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

ThF 1:30-3

060.325 (H)

              (W)

ENGLISH RENAISSANCE POETRY (3)  Goldberg  Limit 15  Perm Req'd. Close reading of poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from Wyatt and Surrey to Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, and others.

Sec. 01

F 1-3:30

060.333 (H)

              (W)

LITERATURE & ENLIGTENMENT (3) O’Connell   Limit 15     How did eighteenth-century writers respond to the culture of enlightenment?  The English novel will be our primary focus, though some poetry, drama or autobiography will be included.  Authors may include Swift, Pope, Defoe, Manley, Richardson, Equiano, Inchbald, Brown, Godwin.

Sec. 01

T 2-4:30

060.349 (H)

             (W)

LITERATURE & EMPIRE (3) During Limit 15  This course examines relations between British literature and imperialism beginning with Robinson Crusoe and ending with Coetzee's Disgrace.  It will focus on how debates over imperialism have taken literary form.

Sec. 01

W 2-4:30

060.355 (H)

              (W)

IMAGINING EUROPE IN THE 19TH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL (3) Kent Limit 15 Prereq: At least one English Literature course required to enroll. How does 19th-century Britain construct its national identity in relation to France, Italy, and Germany? This seminar examines the representation of Europe in a survey of British novels.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

MT 2-3:30

060.371 (H)

              (W)

LITERARY THEORY (3) Anderson Limit 20  A survey and examination of the major schools of literary criticism and theory, including structuralism, formalism, Marxism, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, cultural studies, and post-colonial theory.

Sec. 01

Th 12-2:30

060.377 (H)
              (W)

MESSIANISM, MYSTICISM, AND MAGIC IN MODERN JEWISH LITERATURE (3) Moseley Limit 15    Traces the transmigrations of Jewish mystical and messianic motifs within the modern literary context. Authors include: Gershom Scholem, I. Bashevis Singer, Sh. Ansky, Walter Benjamin. All readings in English.   Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

Th 2-4:30

300.200 (H)

CITIES: FOR EXAMPLE, BALTIMORE (3) Hertz 
Limit 20 per section  
Cross-listed with Humanities, Romance Languages, German, and History of Art

Lec.

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02

03

M 11

W 3-5

W 3-5

W 3-5

300.303 (H)
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EARLY MODERN WOMEN WRITERS: POETRY OF THE EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE (3) Patton   Limit 15  
Cross-listed with Humanities, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

300.326 (H)

LIVING IN DOUBTS: SKEPTICISM IN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND FILM (3) Fenno   Limit 20  
Cross-listed with Humanities, Philosophy, and Film and Media Studies
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

M 2-4,
T 3

300.363 (H)
              (W)

READING JUDITH SHAKESPEARE (3) Patton   Limit 15 
Cross-listed with Humanities, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

Th 2-5

060.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY Staff

060.504

DIRECTED RESEARCH Staff

060.614

MARVELL  Goldberg  Limit 8   Andrew Marvell’s poetry and prose and his changing critical fortunes. From T.S. Eliot and William Empson to current criticism and scholarship.

Sec. 01

Th 1-4 2-5

060.653

VICTORIAN VISUAL TECHNOLOGIES & TEXT: OPTICAL CULTURE, SPECTACLE & THE LITERARY TEXT  Armstrong Limit 8   A poetics of the lens explored through the technologies both of high science (e.g. telescope, microscope) and ludic toys (e.g. stereoscope, kaleidoscope), print culture, poetry, and some short fiction.

Sec. 01

W 2-5

060.662

EDWARDS, EMERSON, THOREAU Cameron  Limit 8   Reading of three authors with emphasis on latter two.

Sec. 01

Th 8:30-11:30

060.693

POETRY & TRUTH IN THE 20TH CENTURY Grossman  Limit 8   Yeats, Pound (Pisan Cantos), Stevens, Lowell, Bishop, Crane, Celon. Selected texts in Plato, Heidegger, G.E. Moore, Richard Rarty. What counts as truth in twentieth century poetry, and what difference that makes.

Sec. 01

T 2-5

060.696

JOURNAL CLUB Staff

Sec. 01

TBA

060.713

READINGS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY  Halpern  Limit 8  Major issues in psychoanalytic theory, with particular attention to its rhetorical and literary dimensions. Close reading of selected works by Freud, Lacon, Derrida, and others.

Sec. 01

F 1-4

300.604

LITERATURE OF THE CITY Hertz   Limit 20   Cross-listed with Humanities, German, Romance Languages and History of Art

Sec. 01

F 10-12

060.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY