060.107 (H)
(W)

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY (3) Hertz  Limit 18  This is a course in how to read alertly and write cogently about a variety of literary forms--poems, essays, short fiction, and at least one really good novel.

Sec. 01

MW 2-3:30

060.114 (H)
(W)

EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) 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.
Please note: Seniors must have the permission of the director to register.  To review individual course descriptions, go to the following web site: http://web.jhu.edu/ewp .

Secs. 11 & 14 canceled 11//02/06

Sec. 08 canceled 01/08/07

Sec. 20 added 01/08/07

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ThF 9-10:30
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ThF 10:30-12
ThF 12-1:30
ThF 12-1:30 ThF 10:30-12

060.201 (H)

             

19TH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL (3) Anderson    Limit 20 per section The novel in nineteenth-century Britain was a hugely popular cultural form, much like the serial television drama today.  It was also a form of cultural expression that began to compete with the claims and consolations of some of the most influential intellectual and moral discourses of the time, including social science and religion.  In this course we will read celebrated writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot as well as lesser-known authors whose novels hold special artistic, intellectual, and/or political interest.  This course has been designated a Gilman Lecture Course in the Humanities.

Section 04 added 10/30/06
Section 04 canceled 12/05/06

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MT 12

W 12

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W 12

060.215 (H)
(W)

ADVANCED EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Kain/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 the advanced skills of argument.  Students learn to draw inferences from the evidence, use sources in a variety of ways to develop their thinking, and structure complex arguments.

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02

MTW 1

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060.256 (H)
(W)

POST WAR BRITISH LITERATURE (3) During   Limit 20 per section This course will introduce students to poetry, prose, and drama important to British literary culture between 1945 and 1960.  Authors will include Iris Murdoch, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, and Harold Pinter.

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ThF 12

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W 12

060.306 (H)
(W)

EARLY MODERN LITERATURE AND TECHNOLOGY (3) Myers    Limit 18   This seminar examines how early modern writers represent the positive and negative effects of technology on the individual and society.  Dean’s Teaching Fellowship course

Sec. 01

F 1-3:30

060.326 (H)
(W)

EARLY GOTHIC LITERATURE (3) Molesworth   Limit 18   This course explores the origins, growth, and eventual "effulgence" of the Gothic aesthetic, as seen in works by Horace Walpole, Edmund Burke, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley.

Cross-listed with Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Sec. 01

T 2-4:30

060.330 (H)
(W)

LITERATURE, TRAVEL, EMPIRE 1700-1820 (3) O’Connell   Limit 18   Prereq: Must have taken one English course      How did eighteenth-century British writers represent encounters with foreign and/or colonized peoples, landscapes, and cultures?  We will read accounts of Scotland, the Ottoman Empire, colonial America, India, the Caribbean and the South Seas.

Sec. 01

W 2-4:30

060.378 (H)
(W)

JEWISH AMERICAN WRITERS AND RACE (3) Conn   Limit 18   Prereq: Must have taken one English Literature course   This course explores the dynamic and tempestuous relationship between Jewish Americans and African Americans as embodied and depicted in the writings of several canonical authors (Stein, Bellow, Roth, Malamud, Ozick).
Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01

MW 3:30-5

060.386 (H)
(W)

POETRY IN AMERICA POST WW II (3) Noble   Limit 18   Prereq: Must have taken one English Literature Class     This course will study the works of six mid-century American poets (Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Ginsberg, O’Hara, and Ashberry) in order to examine the complex relationship between American poetry and culture after WWII.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

060.395 (H)
(W)

THE MODERN IRISH WRITERS (3) Attell   Limit 18   Prereq:  Must have taken one English course In reading a number of the 20th century's major literary texts, we will inquire into the ways in which Irish modernism raises fundamental questions about such things as the relation between language and national identity, the nature of modernism's "newness," colonial, postcolonial, and "semicolonial" culture, the political uses of literature, and the contending forces of cosmopolitanism and nationalism in the modern period.

Sec. 01

M 2-5
M 2-4:30

213.347 (H)

CREATURE FEATURE (3) Kolarov  Limit 15     We will study the emblematic signatures of the creature between text and film. Direct hits like Creature of the Black Lagoon, King Kong, Godzilla, and Faust I serve as raw data, whereas campy works like Faust II, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Huysmans’ La-Bas frame the creature in more livable contexts.  A few of Freud’s famous cases along with other examples from German literature provide the map for the course experiment and a container for the toxic legacies of the creature.
Cross-listed with Film and Media Studies and German and Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01
Scr.

M  1-3
Th 7-9pm

220.379 (H)

ELIOT, CRANE, AND STEVENS (3) Irwin   Juniors and Seniors only     Perm. Req’d.   Limit 14 An examination of the poetry of Eliot, Crane and Stevens in the context of the modernist movement in the verbal and visual arts.    
Cross-listed with Writing Seminars   

Sec. 01

W 3-6pm

060.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY Staff

060.506 (H)

INTERNSHIP  

060.646

HISTORY OF READING & PRACTICAL CRITCISM   Ferguson   Limit 8   Discussions of what reading is, how one can become better at it, how one can display understanding in the course of reading -- from the 18th century to the present.

Sec. 01

T 2-5

060.656

JOSEPH CONRAD During   Limit 8 This course will examine Conrad's writing and career focusing in particular on its relation to empire, secularity, and the restructuring of the European literary field.

Sec. 01

W 2-5

060.696

JOURNAL CLUB Staff

Sec. 01

TBA

060.704

QUEER TIMES:  NARRATIVE, SEQUENCE, SEXUALITY Jagose  Limit 8   An exploration of recent critical work in queer temporalities, this seminar takes twentieth-century literature as its general framework with a specific concentration on autobiography and the contemporary historical novel.
Cross-listed with Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Sec. 01

T 9-12

060.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY

300.604

LITERATURE OF THE CITY:PARIS Hertz  Limit 20  
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center

Sec. 01

F 9-12

300.619

TRAUMA THEORY NOW Leys    Limit 20  A discussion of current debates about trauma, testimony, and representation after Auschwitz.  Texts by Freud, Derrida, Felman, Caruth, Spiegelman, Agamben, and others.
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center, History, History of Science and Technology, Anthropology, and Philosophy

Sec. 01

T 1-4

300.671

STANLEY CAVELL’S “THE CLAIM OF REASON” de Vries/Marrati      Limit 15  This seminar will explore Cavell’s magnum opus and discuss his contribution to the understanding of philosophical skepticism, literature, film, ethics, politics, and religion.   Cross-listed with Philosophy, Anthropology, Political Science, German and Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Humanities Center

Sec. 01

Th 1-4