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Introduction To English Major
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1. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
20th-Century Modern Period
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Transnational/Postcolonial
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
2. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?
Romantic Period (Britain)
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Serious - directive
3. Pessimism and alienation in 'The Darkling Thrust'
Helps characters survive
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
A Victorian response to 20th century
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
4. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment
5. Tone = very modern - omniscience
6. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
To explain and edify
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Modernism
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
7. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Victorian Period
Harlem Renaissance
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Postmodernist literature
8. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
1500-1660
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
9. Similar to Enlightenment
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
10. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
11. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
Speaker needs strength due to illness
1900-1945
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
12. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Naturalism/Realist Period
Victorian Period
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
13. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Romantic Period (Britain)
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
14. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'
15. (Period and definition)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
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
16. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson
17. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment
18. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Romantic Period (Britain)
19. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Harlem Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Romantic Period (Britain)
20. Expresses concern about the state of English culture
21. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Class conflict
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
22. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet
23. Continuations of realism - but more pessimistic
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Naturalism/Realist Period
24. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Naturalism/Realist Period
The loss of faith in modern age
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
25. Reign of Queen Victoria
Victorian Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
'The Lynching' by McKay
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
26. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?
27. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic 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)
28. Tomato soup can
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
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
To explain and edify
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
29. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Modernist literature
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
30. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Victorian Period
1660-1785
31. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
1607-1800
Realism/Realistic Period
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
32. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Modernist literature
Victorian Period
33. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
34. Example of the carpe diem poem
35. (Period and characteristics)
Earnest - sincere
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
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
36. Dates of early American literature
1607-1800
Transnational/Postcolonial
Transnational/Postcolonial
Cunning weapon
37. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Postmodernist literature
38. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
39. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Postmodernist literature
40. Impact of WWII
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
41. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
42. Symbolic landscape
43. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
44. How does 'A Supermarket in California' reflect the post-war conditions of the US?
45. 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
46. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
1960-present
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
47. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Realistic Period
Victorian Period literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
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
48. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'
49. Not rejecting American history
50. Responds to crises of the period
Victorian Period literature
American Romantic Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control