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3.00 Credits
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. No seniors. (15 per section) Please note: Each course has a different topic. To check individual course descriptions, go to the EWP web site: http://sites.jhu.edu/ewp
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a selective but vivid sample of the literature of the British Empire in the 20th century. Beginning in India at the dawn of the century and ending in post-apartheid South Africa, the readings in this course compel us to revisit our received ideas about modernity and development, race relations, and the roles of sexuality and intimacy in cross-cultural encounters. Alongside these works, we will discuss the concepts of imperialism and colonialism, and situate the British Empire in our notion of modern English-speaking culture. We will also explore the ways in which different literary styles emerge out of historical circumstances and political situations.
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1.00 Credits
This winter we’ll appreciate not being on a tropical island while investigating the figure of the castaway in a series of texts, from Shakespeare’s The Tempest to Robert Zemeckis’s 2000 film “Cast Away.” We’ll consider the lasting appeal of the genre while also exploring questions of individual and national identity, (post)colonialism, and the psychology of loneliness. Other readings include Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe," J. M. Coetzee’s "Foe," and several New Yorker cartoons.
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1.00 Credits
This class examines how the local media articulates and defines the city of Baltimore. How does the media create and reinforce perceptions of urban space and fears of urban danger? To what extent do local news organizations foster a shared identity in their audience? We will look at contemporary and historical news to understand the relationship between the media and the city. Field trips may include the Baltimore Sun and TV Hill.
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1.00 Credits
Claimed by both the left and the right, George Orwell is remembered for his analysis of propaganda— writing designed to persuade and which therefore may be distorting or downright false. The relationship between telling the “truth” and taking a political stand troubled Orwell, and continues to trouble us today. This course offers a critical look at Orwell’s legacy. Readings: Orwell’s essays about politics and language; his attempts at truthful propaganda against fascism and for socialism; and his dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
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1.00 Credits
This intersession course will focus on three of the Beat Generation’s representative texts: Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” (1956), Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road" (1957), and William Burrough’s "Naked Lunch" (1959). Alongside these fictional works we will read short essays by Kerouac and Burroughs on “spontaneous prose”, selections from Ginsberg’s journals, and some of the letters that Ginsberg and Kerouac wrote to each other in the late 50's. There will be three short reader-response papers (1-2 pages) due at the start of each week and a five-page paper that will be submitted at the end of the course.
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1.00 Credits
How did 19th century women lay claim to the authority of print—and why did they at times refuse it? We will examine a variety of forms that American and British women used to navigate print culture from about 1820 to 1900: sentimental novels, newspaper poetry, gift books, periodicals, diaries and scrap-books. Classes will focus on close investigation of manuscripts and rare books and will meet at the 19th-century Peabody Library, accessible by shuttle.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will read four of Shakespeare’s plays (Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night’s Dream) alongside a movie adaptation of each that belongs to a genre rarely subjected to serious study: teen film. Participants will consider the costs and benefits of viewing the Shakespearean canon through the lens of teenage experience. Pre 1800 course.
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1.00 Credits
As the moniker "The city that reads" might indicate, Baltimore has a long and distinguished tradition of literary production. In this course, we will focus on two of Baltimore's most famous writers: Edgar Poe and H.L. Mencken, both of whom were widely read and fiercely discussed in their day. We will read a variety of works from both, including a number of Poe's short stories and Mencken's coverage of the Scopes trial, and vist some of the Baltimore institutions dedicated to them. These include Poe's grave and possibly his house, and the Mencken collection at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the formalistic innovations and major themes, as well as the interplay of aesthetics and politics in literary modernism, by looking in depth at the novels of four of the most influential modernist writers in the twentieth century. Novels will include Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway; and Franz Kafka's The Castle.
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