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Introduction To English Major

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1. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Victorian Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Romantic Period (Britain)

2. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Modernist literature
Postmodernist literature

3. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images
Helps characters survive
Postmodernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Modernist literature

4. (Period and definition)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

5. What period - and what did this result in?
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry

6. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
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.'
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
Victorian Period
Creates intensity

7. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy

8. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Modernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Helps characters survive

9. Radically experimental and diverse
Modernism
Postmodernist literature
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self

10. Focus on technologies of stimulation
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
There is hope (not confident about this)
Postmodernist literature
The loss of faith in modern age

11. Not rejecting American history

12. Scientific revolutions
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)

13. Impact of WWI
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism

14. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)

15. (Period and characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Reflects the continental traffic of new ideas - Old subject matter - new form - Shows off learning and the mind of the individual
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Realistic Period

16. Earnest - didactic - sincere
Victorian Period literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Realist Period

17. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

18. Belief in reason (America)
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period

19. Rebellious movement
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Harlem Renaissance
Modernism
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

20. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature

21. Empirically based scientific beliefs
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

22. Growth of British Empire
Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Importance of reason as an essential condition of mankind - Toll of universal truths led to new thinking about gov't: Individual rights and individual liberty - Jefferson and American Constitution - Paine an
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

23. Transition from Victorian to Modernist

24. Responds to crises of the period
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Victorian Period literature
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence

25. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Victorian Period literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

26. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Postmodernist literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

27. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
1660-1785
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period

28. Religious controversy and persecution
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

29. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
'The Lynching' by McKay
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period

30. Subdivisions of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment

31. Beat Generation
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Postmodernism
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Class conflict

32. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification

33. (Period and definiton)
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Author = William Blake

34. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)

35. (Period and definition)
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Modernist literature
Characteristics: An expansion of the traditional scope of the sonnet beyond love - Takes in politics and world events - Shows suppleness and adaptability of the sonnet
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)

36. Empirically based scientific beliefs
Realist Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early National 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

37. Decolonization throughout 20th century
20th-Century Modern Period
Realistic Period
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Transnational/Postcolonial

38. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
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.'
Helps characters survive
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Harlem Renaissance

39. Minimalism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Postmodernist literature

40. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
Romantic Period (Britain)
1830-1901
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
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'

41. Avoids sentimentalism
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Realism/Realistic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'

42. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
20th-Century Modern Period

43. European contact and loss of native cultures
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Victorian Period

44. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Themes of hybridity (Africa and England) - Ambivalence - 'Where shall I turn - divided to the vein?' - Tug-of-war of identities = should I look back to Europe or Africa for my legacy? - Question of moral
Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales

45. What period is marked by industrialization?
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature

46. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
1607-1800
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period

47. Development of printing press
The divine workings on 'this creature' - Her tribulations and visions - Reactions of clergy and laypeople to her - Her attempts to have written record of her experiences made
Philip Freneau - Early National Period/Early American Lit. Direct address to flower - Untouched by humans - protected by nature - But destined to die ('I grieve to see your future doom') - Life is as fleeting as a flower ('the space between - is but
Free verse
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture

48. Conscious efforts to innovate
Postmodernist literature
1. Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare 2. 'The Sun Rising' by John Donne 3. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson 4. 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell 5. 'One the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by John Milton
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet

49. The Age of Reason in action
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Serious - directive
Romantic Period (Britain)

50. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Creates intensity
20th-Century Modern Period