ENGLISH

060.101 (H)

THE STUDY OF LITERATURE: BRITISH LITERATURE I: MIDDLE AGES TO 18th CENTURY (3) Halpern Limit 80 An introductory survey of major works by British writers, designed to give some sense of the literary and cultural history of the period. Texts: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (selected); Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book 1; Milton, Paradise Lost; Pope, The Rape of the Lock.

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060.107 (H)
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INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY (3) Daniel   Limit 18 Required course for English majors In this course we will read and analyze a formally diverse selection of literature ranging from Renaissance sonnets to contemporary fiction.  Assigned reading will include poetry, folk tales, short fiction, literary criticism, and novels by Sidney, Marlowe, Brothers Grimm, Armantrout, Propp, Melville, Cooper and others.

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TTh 3-4:15

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.
Please note: Seniors must have the permission of the Director of Expository Writing to register.  To review individual course descriptions, go to the following web site: http://web.jhu.edu/ewp .

Sec. 11 canceled 11/08/07
Sec. 18 canceled 11/27/07
Sec 11 reinstated 11/27/07
Sec. 11 canceled 01/25/08

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060.215 (H)
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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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MW 12-1:15

MW 1:30-2:45

060.308 (H)
(W)

THE APOCALYPSE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3) Noble Limit 18 Prereq: Must have taken one English department course.This course will explore the relationship between prophetic belief and cultural imagination in American literary history.  We will examine a wide variety of texts: from Jonathan Edwards’s sermons (1740s), to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851), to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2005).

Sec. 01

TTh 9-10:15

060.309 (H)
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THOMAS HARDY SERIAL FICTION AND VICTORIAN CULTURE (3) Jarvis   Limit 18   Prereq: One writing- intensive English class.  This course examines the work of the 19th century British writer Thomas Hardy. Hardy is often seen as bridging the gap between the Victorian age and modernism. Readings include Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, and selected stories and poems.
This course will examine Wilkie Collins’ 1859-1860 novel The Woman in White in the context of its publication.  We will read the novel serially together with literary and journalistic texts published during the same years (1859-1860).  Selections from the following:  Darwin’s The Origin of Species, Tennyson’s The Idylls of the King, Mill’s On Liberty, Ruskin’s Modern Painters IV, Punch, The Illustrated London News, and The London Times.
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality

Sec. 01

TTh  12-1:15

060.316 (H)
(W)

MILTON IN DEBATE   (3) Daniel   Limit 18   Juniors and Seniors only  Represented by some recent critics as a militant engaged in a hostile takeover of classical forms and Jewish source material on behalf of a Puritan extremist agenda, Milton has a bad reputation for being “one-sided”—yet his work centers upon conversation and debate. Starting with his early translations and working through A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle [‘Comus’] (1634), Paradise Lost (1667), Paradise Regained (1671), and Samson Agonistes (1671), this reading- intensive seminar will ask you to consider Milton’s writing in both its formal richness and in the sustained complexity of its political, theological and marital arguments. After a brief examination of the rhetoric of conversation in his tract The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), a series of conversations and debates between The Lady and Comus, Adam and Eve, Christ and Satan, and Samson and Delilah will be read as embodiments of the dialectic conflict between Milton’s poetics of temptation and his politics of radical commitment. 

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4 3-5:30pm

060.317(H)
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SURVEY OF MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE (3) Stinson   Limit 18   This course is designed to provide a broad introduction to medieval English literature, covering a range of texts from some of the earliest extant English poems to the later medieval period, and exploring numerous types of literature typical of the Middle Ages, including heroic poetry, courtly romance, allegorical dream vision, personal devotion, drama, didactic poetry, and alliterative and lyric verse.

Sec. 01

MW 12-1:15

060.328 (H)
(W)

THE SATIRICAL BODY, 1660-1740 (3) Molesworth   Limit 18   Prereq: Must have taken one English class. This course examines the flourishing of English satirical literature during the late Stuart and early Hanover period, paying special attention to the discursive formation of the human body (in its sensory, sexual, and excremental capacities).  Authors studied will include Dryden, Behn, Pope, Swift, and Fielding.
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality

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M 3-5:30pm

060.331 (H)
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CERTITUDE, FASCINATION, AND THE STRANGE IN EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1624-1799 (3) Hoppe   Limit 18 Prereq:  At least one English department course other than Expository Writing. Texts include travelogues, captivity narratives, memoirs, sermons, scientific treatises, verse, a novel; topics include the relationship of the sensuous to the didactic, scientific curiosity to sociability, and ethnography to social order.

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MW 1:30-2:45

060.345 (H)
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RENAISSANCE KEYWORDS (3) Parris   Limit 18   Prereq: At least one English department course.  This seminar will work through a set of popular Renaissance texts (drama, poetry, prose, epic, and philosophy) as well as relevant theoretical/critical writings, in an attempt to map out an inquiry of “keywords” for the period we loosely call the English Renaissance (ca. 1558-1689).  Authors include Shakespeare, Spenser, Nashe, Cavendish, Mary Sidney, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari.

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060.350 (H)
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BLACK, WHITE AND READ ALL OVER: THE AMERICAN SLAVE NARRATIVE RECONSIDERED (1830s-1850s) (3) Bynum Limit 18   This course seeks to reconsider the American slave narrative by addressing the social and political concerns of African American authors alongside those of the American Renaissance rather than separately. Those larger social concerns will include: race, gender, manhood and womanhood and American identity.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

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TTh 10:30-11:45

060.357 (H)
(W)

RACE, AFFECT, AND AMBIGUITY IN AMERICAN FICTION (3) Conn   Limit 18 Prereq: One English department  course. This course will examine the dynamic interplay between the key terms “race,” “affect,” and “ambiguity” in American fiction, from the American Renaissance to the 1980s. Writers will include Melville, Stein, Larsen, Faulkner, Ellison, Baldwin, and others.  

Sec. 01

MW 4:30-5:45pm

060.363 (H)
(W)

HENRY JAMES (3)   Cameron   
Limit 18 Prereq: Junior/Senior Seminar, two lower level English department courses exclusive of Expository Writing.   
A reading of the major novels. 

Sec. 01

F 1:30-4

213.332 (H)
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ZIONISM IN MODERN LITERATURE: JEWISH OR ISRAELI? (3) M. Caplan   Limit 20
Cross-listed with Jewish Studies, German and Romance Languages, and the Humanities Center

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

214.371 (H)
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IMAGINING MEDIEVAL ITALIAN CULTURE: THE NAME OF THE ROSE (3) Stephens   Limit 20
Cross-listed with Film & Media Studies, History, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the Humanities Center, and German and Romance Languages

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T 2-4:30

220.412 (H)

READING IN POETRY: ELIOT, CRANE AND STEVENS (3) Irwin Perm. Req’d Limit 14 Cross-listed with Writing Seminars

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W 3-6pm

060.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY Staff

060.506

INTERNSHIP-ENGLISH Staff  

060.619

SPENSER AND ETHICS   Halpern   Limit 9  We will read The Faerie Queene in the light of philosophical ethics–principally Aristotle but also more recent theorists and commentators, mostly of an anti-Kantian persuasion.

Sec. 01

Th 1-3:50

060.670
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HENRY JAMES   Cameron   Limit 9 
A reading of the major novels. 

Sec. 01

F Th 9-11:50

060.681
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LITERARY THEORY Anderson 
Limit 9 This course will examine key texts of theory that have strongly influenced the practice of literary criticism in recent decades.  We will also analyze important debates within the theoretical field as well as metacritiques of certain tendencies within theory.

Sec. 01

W 1-3:50

060.696

JOURNAL CLUB Staff   

213.646

FANTASY NARRATIVES OF THE 19TH CENTURY M. Caplan   Limit 15  
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and the Humanities Center

Sec. 01

Th 12-1:50

214.748

VICO AND THE OLD SCIENCE Stephens   Limit 15
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages, the Humanities Center, and Philosophy

Sec. 01

W 12-1:50

060.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY