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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.100.728 (01)
Historical Writing in the Middle Ages
Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Spiegel, Gabrielle M
Gilman 314
HIST-EUROPE
Historical Writing in the Middle Ages AS.100.728 (01)
The course will begin with readings of literary and critical theory, as a preparation for the study of modes of historical writing in the Middle Ages. We will then read a sampling of medieval historiographical texts, beginning with Eusebius.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE
AS.215.718 (01)
Contemporaneity and Crisis
T 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Seguin, Becquer D
Gilman 479
GRLL-ENGL, GRAD-CAMS
Contemporaneity and Crisis AS.215.718 (01)
How should one study contemporary literature and culture? Is “the contemporary” a period in and of itself? Does it require a distinct conceptual approach? This graduate seminar will examine various approaches that have emerged since Michel Foucault called his genealogies a “history of the present.” We will pay special attention to contemporary literature and culture’s most distinguishing feature today: crisis. Considering theories of crisis and “the contemporary” together, the course will explore how living in a time of overlapping crises—economic, political, social, cultural, environmental, and others—affects the way we interpret the world.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/18
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL, GRAD-CAMS
AS.211.754 (01)
Modernist Primitivism
Th 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Gilman 479
GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-GERM
Modernist Primitivism AS.211.754 (01)
This course will explore the aesthetics and politics of primitivism in European modernity, focusing on the visual arts and literature in German and Yiddish, but looking at the wider European context, including France and Russia. We will begin with the backgrounds of primitivism in Romanticism, looking especially at its ethnographic and colonial sources. We will then focus on the presence of anthropological and ethnographic discourses within various registers of modernist thought, literature, and visual culture, with special attention to visual and literary primitivism. Our central concerns will include: the attempt to create a modernist aesthetics grounded in ethnography; the primitivist critique of modernity; the place of primitivism in the historical avant-garde; the development of the notion of “culture” in modernity; and the aesthetics of modern ethnic and national identity. Key thinkers, artists, and writers to be considered include Herder; Gauguin; Picasso; Wilhelm Worringer; Carl Einstein; Hannah Höch; and Emil Nolde.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/12
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-GERM
AS.300.800 (04)
Independent Study
Marrati, Paola
Independent Study AS.300.800 (04)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/1
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.801 (02)
Ind Stdy-Field Exams
Eakin Moss, Anne, Marrati, Paola
Ind Stdy-Field Exams AS.300.801 (02)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 0/2
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.621 (01)
Immersive Poetics and Permeable Screens
T 1:30PM - 3:50PM
Eakin Moss, Anne
Gilman 208
Immersive Poetics and Permeable Screens AS.300.621 (01)
Victor Shklovsky claimed that the art exists “to return sensation to life, to make us feel objects, to make a stone feel stony.” This seminar examines various ways of understanding Shklovsky’s concept of ostranenie (“enstrangement”) across media (literature, art, cinema, and beyond) and in comparative perspective, considering the problematics of politics, philosophy, and aesthetic form. Students will be encouraged to present on texts in their own area of expertise over the course of the term.
Abandoned by Theseus, Ariadne lamenting on the shore of Naxos embodies one of the most powerful tropes in literature and the arts. The fate of the heroine who helped Theseus out of the labyrinth became herself a thread (indeed, an inexhaustible series of threads) running across the ages and populating the imagination of poets, painters, composers. After exploring in detail the classical sources that canonized Ariadne’s myth (Catullus, Carmina, 64; Ovid, Heroides, 10) as well as references to the myth found in other classical authors (Homer, Hesiod, Pausanias, Plutarch, Propertius), we will turn to the reception of Ariadne in literature and music (Ariosto, Rinuccini-Monteverdi, Haydn, Nietzsche, Strauss-Von Hofmannsthal). The analysis of the various case studies will focus on the rhetorical and poetical devices used by poets and composers to reenact the vocal features of Ariadne’s lament.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/14
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-ITAL
AS.300.801 (03)
Ind Stdy-Field Exams
Lisi, Leonardo
Ind Stdy-Field Exams AS.300.801 (03)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/2
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.803 (01)
Dissertation Research
Lisi, Leonardo
Dissertation Research AS.300.803 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.809 (01)
In Study Field Exam
Lisi, Leonardo
In Study Field Exam AS.300.809 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.809 (02)
In Study Field Exam
Lisi, Leonardo
In Study Field Exam AS.300.809 (02)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/2
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.805 (01)
Literary Pedagogy
Lisi, Leonardo
Literary Pedagogy AS.300.805 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.211.777 (01)
The Critical Unconscious
Th 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Egginton, William
Mergenthaler 431
GRLL-ENGL
The Critical Unconscious AS.211.777 (01)
Criticism in the 21st century has tended to relegate psychoanalysis to a dustbin of fads that proliferated at the end of the prior century but that today are of interest only to balkanized cliques of devotees. Bucking this trend, this seminar will examine the intellectual history and abiding influence of psychoanalysis’s key critical concept: the unconscious. Basing our discussions on in-depth readings from key thinkers in the analytic tradition such as Freud, Lacan, and Klein, as well as the post-analytic philosophical tradition, including Zizek, Butler, Laclau and Mouffe, Deleuze and Guattari, and Jameson, we will work to distill an understanding of the unconscious as essential to the practice of criticism tout court, and as inhering even in those discourses that have sought most stridently to distance themselves from it. Seminar discussions will take place in English; readings will be available in the original as well as in translation.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/20
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL
AS.215.613 (01)
Ricardo Piglia, Borges, Derrida and Argentina's Eighteenth Century
T 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Gonzalez, Eduardo
Gilman 479
GRLL-ENGL
Ricardo Piglia, Borges, Derrida and Argentina's Eighteenth Century AS.215.613 (01)
A voice in Piglia’s Artificial Respiration claims that Argentina did not have an eighteenth century or the Eighteenth Century. Besides Piglia’s palimpsest novel, we’ll study a handful of texts by Borges. Passages from Leopoldo Marechal’s Adan Buenosayres, and Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign Volume Two, in reference to Heidegger’s The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Taught in English.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL
AS.300.802 (01)
Independent Study Field Exam
Marrati, Paola
Independent Study Field Exam AS.300.802 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.619 (01)
Theory and Praxis of Modern Tragedy
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Lisi, Leonardo
Gilman 208
Theory and Praxis of Modern Tragedy AS.300.619 (01)
This course will examine the philosophy and drama of modern tragedy through the close reading and comparison of a number of key works. We will study plays by Shakespeare (Hamlet and King Lear), de la Barca (Life is a Dream), Racine (Phèdre), Hölderlin (Death of Empedocles), and Ibsen (Master Builder and Hedda Gabler) in conjunction with philosophical writings by Pascal, Leopardi, Hegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, Heidegger and Cavell. Course is open to open to advanced undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.211.606 (01)
Literature and Truth: Forgery and Fakes
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Havens, Earle Ashcroft, II., Stephens, Walter E
BLC Macksey
GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-ITAL
Literature and Truth: Forgery and Fakes AS.211.606 (01)
Forgery is an eternal problem. It is a literary tradition in its own right, with connections to politics, Classics, religion, philosophy, and literary theory. Spurious writings impinge on social and political realities to a degree rarely confronted by criticism. This course offers a reading of the sort traditionally reserved for canonical works of poetry and prose fiction, spotlighting forgery’s imaginative vitality and its sinister impact on scholarship. Students will study manuscripts and incunabula drawn from JHU’s Bibliotheca Fictiva, the world’s premier collection of literary forgeries.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/12
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-ITAL
AS.300.806 (01)
Literary Pedagogics
Staff
Literary Pedagogics AS.300.806 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.804 (01)
Dissertation Research
Lisi, Leonardo
Dissertation Research AS.300.804 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available:
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.802 (04)
Independent Study Field Exam
Ong, Yi-Ping
Independent Study Field Exam AS.300.802 (04)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.638 (01)
Happy and Unhappy Words: Austin, Wittgenstein, and Cavell
M 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Marrati, Paola
Gilman 208
Happy and Unhappy Words: Austin, Wittgenstein, and Cavell AS.300.638 (01)
This seminar studies how words help shaping the world we inhabit and how the power and limits of language affect the possibility of living in a shared world in the works of Austin, Wittgenstein, Cavell and others.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 17/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.010.632 (01)
Painting and Subjectivity
W 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Warnock, Molly
Gilman 177
HART-MODERN
Painting and Subjectivity AS.010.632 (01)
Readings from a range of theoretically and philosophically interesting texts on painting and the visual arts. Among our authors: Cavell, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, Nancy, Lyotard.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): HART-MODERN
AS.300.601 (01)
How to Read Proust?
W 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Ender, Evelyne
Gilman 208
How to Read Proust? AS.300.601 (01)
Given the difficulty of his prose, closely and patiently would seem the best way to read Proust, but who has time – time to read a book that, ironically, begins with “Longtemps” and ends with “le temps”? This course will offer for critical examination surgically selected passages of A la Recherche du Temps Perdu as a training ground for the (lost?) art of close reading and as entry points into wide-ranging aspects of literary criticism and theory. Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of the instructor. Taught in English. Knowledge of French is desirable, but not required.
