Introduction To English Major

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1. (Title and period)

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2. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)


3. (Period and effect)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
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 Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


4. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period


5. 'The Disappointment' - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

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6. the 'Poet of the American Revolution'

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7. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces


8. 'The Disappointment' - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

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9. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Free verse
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period


10. Oral tradition
Modernism
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism


11. Motivated by industrial reform
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period
Transnational/Postcolonial


12. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Transnational/Postcolonial
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Naturalism/Realist Period


13. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
'The Lynching' by McKay
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period


14. Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply'
American Romantic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet


15. Moving from neoclassical to Romantic (America) - (Title and period)

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16. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it


17. the 'Poet of the American Revolution'

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18. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

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19. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Postmodernist literature
1607-1800
Harlem Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period


20. William Butler Yeats

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21. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Fusing mind and nature


22. Not rejecting American history

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23. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Creates intensity
1900-1945


24. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature

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25. Hybridity
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature


26. Radically experimental and diverse
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)


27. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)


28. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles


29. (Period and characteristics)

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30. What period - and what did they imitate?

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31. Tone = very modern - omniscience

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32. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)

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33. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Creates intensity
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period


34. Sense of loss or disillusionment
Modernist literature
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
Naturalism/Realist Period
Victorian Period


35. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet

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36. (Title and period)

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37. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
American Romantic Period
Realistic Period


38. Radically experimental and diverse
Kiowa tale
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)


39. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair


40. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Earnest - sincere
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'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernism


41. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread


42. Associated with prudishness/repression
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self


43. (Title and period)

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44. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Kiowa tale
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes


45. Religious controversy and persecution
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


46. 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
Realism/Realistic Period
Site of affluence and consumer culture - Whitman as radical forebear: celebration of bohemia - Contrast of America then and now in the last stanza - 'What America did you have?'
Full of self-assertion and radical vision


47. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Realism/Realistic Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision


48. Primary texts of the Middle Ages

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49. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

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50. Dates of the Victorian Period
1830-1901
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Middle Ages/Medieval Period