Introduction To English Major

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1. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
1607-1800
American Romantic Period


2. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

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3. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'

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4. (Period and characteristics)

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5. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

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6. Discovery of Americas
Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


7. (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images


8. Conscious efforts to innovate
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.


9. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'

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10. (Title and period)
Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Transnational/Postcolonial
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe


11. Belief in reason (America)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
Site of affluence and consumer culture - Whitman as radical forebear: celebration of bohemia - Contrast of America then and now in the last stanza - 'What America did you have?'


12. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
1960-present
Modernism
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people


13. John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

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14. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Author = William Blake
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Interest in imagination
Victorian Period


15. Each person is innately divine
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Realism/Realistic Period


16. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Free verse
Naturalism/Realist Period
Kiowa tale
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot


17. (Period and characteristics)
Harlem Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Often in form of an argument - Analytic approach - originality - wit - and intellectual tone - Use of colloquial language - Rough or irregular rhythmic patterns - Metaphysical conceit: elaborate - o
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain) 'To see a world in a grain of sand - And a heaven in a wild flower - Hold infinity in the palm of your hand - And eternity in an hour.'


18. Decolonization throughout 20th century
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Romantic Period (Britain) 'To see a world in a grain of sand - And a heaven in a wild flower - Hold infinity in the palm of your hand - And eternity in an hour.'


19. Aim of postcolonial criticism
'The Lynching' by McKay
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Realism/Realistic Period


20. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram


21. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
Victorian Period literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
The working of misogyny - Woman = supreme object of desire AND most loathed object because she is the obstacle to masculine power and mastery - The same style - reveal 'urbanity - wit - licentiousness'
20th-Century Modern Period


22. T. S. Eliot

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23. Reign of Queen Victoria
Romantic Period (Britain)
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Industrialization: new forms of manufacturing - driven by machines - Transformation of agriculture: land became privately owned and consolidated - New labor: new mass of workers living in mill towns to serve


24. Sense of loss or disillusionment
Modernist literature
Modernism
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Romantic Period (Britain)


25. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernist literature


26. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
1830-1901
Victorian Period literature
Earnest - sincere
Interest in imagination


27. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem


28. Postcolonial literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Literally - a 'seize the day' poem - Emphasizes uncertainty of life and need to live in the present - Represents a scaling back of hopes and suspicion about future - Aftermath of all the chaos of Eng
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations


29. Example of the politicized sonnet

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30. What period is marked by industrialization?
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Ordinary speech - dialogue - Nature - Personal experience - Spontaneous wisdom - The imagination - Valorization of life as a mystery to be experienced - not interrogated - Virtue of doing nothing
Postmodernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally


31. (Title and period)
Victorian Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Realistic Period
American Romantic Period


32. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Victorian Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Creates intensity


33. 'Put a bullet in his head'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Ordinary speech - dialogue - Nature - Personal experience - Spontaneous wisdom - The imagination - Valorization of life as a mystery to be experienced - not interrogated - Virtue of doing nothing


34. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Transnational/Postcolonial
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
1960-present


35. Dates of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
1500-1660
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau


36. From the Civil War to World War II
Postmodernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
1500-1660
Realistic Period


37. Types of literature from Colonial Period
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Creates intensity
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period


38. Empirically based scientific beliefs
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)


39. Affluence and consumer culture
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernism
Victorian Period
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines


40. Ishmael Reed (Title and period)

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41. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period literature


42. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
Realistic Period
Author = William Blake
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers


43. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape

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44. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Romantic Period (Britain)


45. Deflates pretensions and ideals
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Site of affluence and consumer culture - Whitman as radical forebear: celebration of bohemia - Contrast of America then and now in the last stanza - 'What America did you have?'
Realism/Realistic Period
Victorian Period


46. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Modernist literature
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Realistic Period


47. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?

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48. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Realist Period
Modernist literature
The expanded line - Form mirrors content - The expanded line can hold a complete idea - Lets the line expand so that poet can say everything necessary for the subject of that line


49. (Period and definiton)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
American Romantic Period


50. Rejects style of neoclassical period
450AD-1500
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Romantic Period (Britain)