ENGLISH

060.101 (H)
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THE STUDY OF LITERATURE: 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES (3) Goldberg  Limit 20 per section  English literature of the Renaissance and 17th century, from Wyatt and Surrey to Milton and Marvell.

Lec.

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03

MT 12

W 12

W 12

W 12

060.107 (H)
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PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF LITERARY CRITICISM (3) Halpern Limit 15   This course is required for English majors.  Perm Req'd. Introduction to the analysis of poetry and prose fiction. Prose works by Brothers Grimm, Poe, Hawthorne, James, and Nabokov; poems by Shakespeare, Donne, Keats, Dickinson, Stevens and many others.

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

060.114 (H)
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EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Kain/Staff Limit 15 per section. 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 of all sections is using analysis to create arguments.  To check individual course/section descriptions go to: http://www.jhu.edu/ewp/spr2006.htm

Sec.18 canceled 11/15/05

Sec.03 canceled 01/18/06

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MTW 10

MTW 10

MTW 10

MTW 11

MTW 11

MTW 11

MTW 12

MTW 12

ThF 12-1:30
MTW 12

MTW 1

MTW 1

MTW 1

ThF9-10:30

ThF10:30-12

ThF10:30-12

ThF10:30-12

ThF12-1:30

ThF12-1:30

060.201 (H)
            

19TH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL (3) Anderson    Limit 20 per section    Authors include: Austen, E. Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell, Collins, Wilde

Sec. 04 added 01/18/06 - (limit 10)

Lec.

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04

MT 1

W 1

W 1

W 1

W 1

060.215 (H)
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ADVANCED EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Evans   Limit 12 per section.  Designed for juniors and seniors with experience in using analysis to make clear and persuasive arguments, but open to any students who have taken Expository Writing (060.113/114), this course focuses on more complex and independent research and writing projects, including at least one substantial essay of students’ own design.  Emphasis is on independent inquiry and the advanced skills of argument.

Sec. 01

02

MTW 1

MTW 2

060.256 (H)

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POSTWAR BRITISH LITERATURE (3) During   Limit 20 per section   This course will introduce students to poetry, prose and criticism written in Britain between 1945 and 1960. Authors will include T.S.Eliot, V.S. Naipul, Richard Hoggart, Doris Lessing, and Iris Murdoch.

Lec.

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02

03

ThF 12

W 12

W 12

W 12

060.334 (H)

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RELIGION AND 18TH CENTURY LITERARY CULTURE (3)  O’Connell Limit 15  Prereq: must have taken at least one English course.   What role did matters of religious faith, dogma, and skepticism play in the development of 18th-century literature?  We will consider Augustan satire, travelers’ tales, sentimental novels, oriental tales, and horror literature.

Sec. 01

T 2-4:30

060.346 (H)

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ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN CHILDHOODS (3) Kent   Limit 15     Prereq: must have taken at least one English course.   This course examines the way in which nineteenth century poets, novelists, and philosophers of education treat "childhood," an emerging concept, as a critical period of education and character formation.

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

060.352 (H)

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WHITMAN, FROST, STEVENS (3) Cameron   Limit 15 Perm Req'd.   Prereq: must have taken at least two introductory literature courses.  This course will examine the way in which the body, nature, and the imagination are developed as central tropes in the poetry of Whitman, Frost, and Stevens.

Sec. 01

F 12-2:30

060.360 (H)

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AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE GILDED AGE (3) Stein   Limit 15  Perm Req'd. The development of realist writing in relation to social problems after the Civil War.  Authors include Child, Whitman, Twain, James, Howells, Henry Adams, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Frances Harper.

Sec. 01

W 2-4:30

060.374 (H)

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INTERNATIONAL MODERNISM (3) Moon   Limit 15 per section  Sec. 02 Perm Req'd. A broad map of Modernist writing from the American Midwest (Cather) to New York (Wharton, Deren) and Harlem (Larsen, Hughes), London (Forster), Paris (Stein, Hemingway, the Surrealists), Prague (Kafka), Vienna and Berlin (Musil).  Some themes of the course: nationalisms and sexualities; politics of groups and masses.

Sec. 02 added 02/03/06

Sec. 01

02

M 2-4:30

T 2-4:30

060.397 (H)
              (W)

THOMAS PYNCHON (3) Attell     Limit 15    A reading of Pynchon’s first four novels - V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, and Vineland - focusing on, among other things, his representations of American history, paranoia, religion, and technology.

Sec. 01

W 2-4:30

300.303 (H)
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EARLY MODERN WOMEN WRITERS: POETRY OF THE EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE (3) Patton   Limit 12 15

Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

F 10-12

300.363 (H)
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READING JUDITH SHAKESPEARE: WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND (3) Patton   Limit 15

Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

Th 10-12

060.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY Staff

060.617

SPENSERIAN ASKESIS   Goldberg  Limit 8   Spenserian poetics as suggested by the letter to Ralegh; book one of The Faerie Queen read along with Augustine's Confessions and Paul's epistles and theoretical work by such writers as Agamben, Arendt, Badiou, Boyarin, inter alia; book two, Aristotle, Hadot, and Foucauldian hermeneutics of the self.

Sec. 01

M 2-5

060.642

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EDUCATION IN THE LATE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURIES  Ferguson   Limit 8   This seminar will consider the philosophical accounts of education offered by Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Bentham and the more popular writings of More, Trimmer, Lancaster, Bell, Barbauld, and the Edgeworths.

Sec. 01

T 2-5

060.665

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

Sec. 01

Th 9-12

060.667

JAMESIAN LEGACY: MODERNISM, GENDER, GENIUS, CHILDHOOD Moon   Limit 8  This course will examine the "uptake" of Henry James's work by a wide array of women and/or queer writers:  Wharton, Stein, Cather, Forster, Compton-Burnett, Bowen, Baldwin, Highsmith, Murdoch, and Hollinghurst, in relation to contemporaneous debates such as "the woman of genius" and childhood sexuality.

Course canceled 02/08/06

Sec. 01

T 9-12

060.696

JOURNAL CLUB Staff

Sec. 01

TBA

060.717

MARX FOR/AGAINST PHILOSOPHY Halpern   Limit 8  Readings in Marx and later commentators, focusing on the vexed relation between Marxism and philosophy.  Readings by Althusser, Derrida, Karatani and others.

Sec. 01

F 1-4

060.722

COLONIALISM AND METROPOLITAN LITERARY CULTURE During   Limit 8 This course will explore certain relations between colonialism and literary writing since 1800, partly as mediated through key texts in postcolonial critique and recent work on global literature.

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

300.672

THOMAS HARDY Hertz   Limit 20

Cross-listed with Humanities Center

Sec. 01

F 9 -12

060.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY