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Introduction To English Major

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1. Not rejecting American history

2. Not rejecting American history

3. William Butler Yeats

4. Phillis Wheatley

5. Religious controversy and persecution
Creates intensity
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Naturalism/Realist Period

6. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Characteristics: Male sexual conquest and vulnerability - Extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' - Downfall = premature ejaculation and impotence 'Trembling - confused - despaired - limber - dry - A wishing - weak - un
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

7. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

8. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Serious - directive
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified

9. Growth of public education and literacy
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
20th-Century Modern Period

10. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet

11. Isolation and alienation from society
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story

12. English colonization
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)

13. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period

14. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Modernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

15. Stabilizing of middle class and concern for morality
Victorian Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Ideas: Religious toleration - Separation of church and state - Freedom of press censorship - Popular sovereignty - Poetic responses: 'To His Coy Mistress' by Marvell (carpe diem) - 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by Milton (politicized sonnet)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe

16. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

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

18. (Title and period)

19. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?

20. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Realistic Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

21. Westward expansion
Characteristics: Male sexual conquest and vulnerability - Extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' - Downfall = premature ejaculation and impotence 'Trembling - confused - despaired - limber - dry - A wishing - weak - un
Modernist literature
American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry

22. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
'The Lynching' by McKay
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period

23. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Creates intensity
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realist Period

24. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Modernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

25. Hybridity
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Naturalism/Realist Period

26. Growing economic inequality
Modernist literature
Victorian Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars

27. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
1607-1800

28. 'Put a bullet in his head'
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Modernist literature
Victorian Period literature

29. Modernist alienation from mainstream

30. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance

31. Christianized Germanic culture
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence

32. Derek Walcott

33. William Blake Interest in imagination

34. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
The loss of faith in modern age
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique

35. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England

36. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Fusing mind and nature
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

37. Time of crisis - turmoil - and disillusionment for many writers
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

38. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
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
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story

39. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period
1660-1785
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Class conflict

40. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Harlem Renaissance
Transnational/Postcolonial
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

41. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)

42. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
Victorian Period literature
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
The loss of faith in modern age
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art

43. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
To explain and edify
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

44. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
1660-1785
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition

45. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Realism/Realistic Period
There is hope (not confident about this)
Postmodernist literature
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

46. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Victorian Period

47. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

48. (Period and definiton)
Iroquois prayer-song
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Postmodernist literature

49. Scientific revolutions
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

50. 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period