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Introduction To English Major

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1. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Romantic Period (Britain)
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 Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Victorian Period

2. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)
'The Lynching' by McKay
Kiowa tale
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI

3. Sense of loss or disillusionment
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature
Modernism
American Romantic Period

4. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
American Romantic Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

5. Puritanism and gender
Class conflict
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
1660-1785
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

6. (Period and types)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Free verse
1830-1901
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

7. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles

8. Empirically based scientific beliefs
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

9. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Iroquois prayer-song
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

10. Each person is innately divine
Modernist literature
Iroquois prayer-song
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Examines issues of home and exile - Power of art to explore and resolve differences - Explores issues of hybridity through own family - One of her great-grandfathers (an Irish sailor) abandoned his creol

11. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Postmodernism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story

12. Earnest - didactic - sincere
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Victorian Period literature
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

13. (Period and definition)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

14. Romantic rejection of reason
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Realism/Realistic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem

15. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems

16. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment
Victorian Period
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story

17. Religious controversy and persecution
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernism
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism

18. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
1830-1901

19. (Period and types)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition

20. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
1660-1785
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Examines issues of home and exile - Power of art to explore and resolve differences - Explores issues of hybridity through own family - One of her great-grandfathers (an Irish sailor) abandoned his creol
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
Class conflict

21. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
1785-1830
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England

22. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Realism/Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)

23. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Postmodernist literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty

24. Return to classics
Modernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
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)
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

25. Subdivisions of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Serious - directive
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English

26. (Period and characteristics)
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
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
Iroquois prayer-song
1830-1901

27. Radically experimental and diverse
Realist Period
Postmodernist literature
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Modernist literature

28. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Victorian Period
1660-1785
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

29. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
1660-1785
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture

30. Romantic rejection of reason
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
1830-1901
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

31. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
1900-1945
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair

32. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Helps characters survive
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism

33. Dates of the Victorian Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
1830-1901
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

34. Sometimes referred to as the 'Pre-Romantic' period
Serious - directive
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
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
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem

35. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Victorian Period
Class conflict
Realism/Realistic Period

36. Beat Generation
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)
Postmodernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period

37. What period - and what was it?
Romantic Period (Britain)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
'The Lynching' by McKay

38. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

39. Writes devotional poetry
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

40. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
Transnational/Postcolonial
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
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
Romantic Period (Britain)

41. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Lynching' by McKay
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

42. Oral tradition
American Romantic Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory

43. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
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
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces

44. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Naturalism/Realist Period

45. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Realism/Realistic Period

46. (Period and effect)
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Postmodernist literature
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

47. Exalted view of art
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Lynching' by McKay
Modernist literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

48. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason

49. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

50. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
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

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