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Introduction To English Major

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1. (Period and characteristics)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
1785-1830
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically

2. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
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
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Postmodernist literature

3. Pessimism and alienation in 'The Darkling Thrust'
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
A Victorian response to 20th century

4. Example of early modern sonnet
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
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Postmodernism

5. Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
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) 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

6. Example of the politicized sonnet
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Author = William Blake
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet

7. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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
Modernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

8. English colonization
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Modernist literature

9. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
Postmodernism
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Victorian Period

10. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Modernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
1660-1785

11. Radical break with tradition
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Victorian Period
Modernism
Interest in imagination

12. Seriousness and sobriety
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Naturalism/Realist Period

13. Sentimentality and emerging ideology of the 'vanishing Indian'
Victorian Period literature
Modernism
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

14. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Transnational/Postcolonial
Postmodernist literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

15. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
1500-1660
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

16. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Postmodernism
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)

17. Discovery of Americas
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

18. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
1660-1785
Class conflict

19. (Period and effect)
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Class conflict
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

20. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernist literature

21. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Romantic Period (Britain)

22. Dates of Modernism
Naturalism/Realist Period
1900-1945
Victorian Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'

23. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

24. (Period and characteristics)
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes

25. Puritanism and gender
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
20th-Century Modern Period
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
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

26. (Title and period)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
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)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

27. Example of the carpe diem poem
Postmodernism
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Romantic Period (Britain)

28. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Earnest - sincere
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Transnational/Postcolonial
20th-Century Modern Period

29. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
20th-Century Modern Period
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period

30. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
There is hope (not confident about this)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Romantic Period (Britain)

31. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
20th-Century Modern Period
Interest in imagination
The plight of the author when dependent on patrons - Jonson flatters his patron with idealized portrait of the patron's estate - Examples: Fantasy of laborless bounty (fish and fowl offer themselves) - Happy laborers (they give to the estate's lord).
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

32. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
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
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Postmodernist literature
Constantly read and interpret everything as signs of God's favor or punishment - Early man is full of sin - Monitoring self for signs of grace = crucial

33. (Title and period)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Victorian Period literature

34. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Author = William Blake
Victorian Period literature
Victorian Period

35. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

36. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'

37. Allusive style
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Postmodernism

38. Growth of British Empire
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period

39. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
450AD-1500
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

40. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature

41. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Class conflict
Victorian Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

42. Similar to Enlightenment
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism

43. (Period and types)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Serious - directive
Earnest - sincere
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales

44. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism

45. Symbolic landscape
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

46. Paine - Jefferson - 'Declaration of Independence -' The Federalist Papers
American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars

47. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
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
Postmodernist literature
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use

48. (Period and definition)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Victorian Period
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

49. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
20th-Century Modern Period
Harlem Renaissance
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Earnest - sincere

50. In the Kiowa tale - language =
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic 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
Cunning weapon

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