Introduction To English Major

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1. What is this an example of? And name the piece

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2. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Realism/Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot


3. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain) 'To see a world in a grain of sand - And a heaven in a wild flower - Hold infinity in the palm of your hand - And eternity in an hour.'
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


4. Motivated by industrial reform
Victorian Period
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)
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period


5. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature


6. (Period and characteristics)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
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
Postmodernist literature


7. What does the extraordinary 'breaking in' upon everyday existence suggest about Romantics?
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)


8. 'Relentless change'
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
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


9. Dates of early American literature
1607-1800
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester


10. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'


11. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
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


12. Primary texts of the Middle Ages

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13. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England


14. (Period and characteristics)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
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
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces


15. What period - and what did this result in?
Kiowa tale
450AD-1500
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry


16. Celebration of common people

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17. Dramatic political changes
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
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
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.


18. What is this an example of? And name the piece

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19. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
1900-1945
Romantic Period (Britain)
450AD-1500


20. Development of printing press
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Fusing mind and nature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower


21. (Period and definition)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
To explain and edify
Victorian Period literature


22. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
Kiowa tale
Realism/Realistic Period
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
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau


23. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Romantic Period (Britain) 'To see a world in a grain of sand - And a heaven in a wild flower - Hold infinity in the palm of your hand - And eternity in an hour.'
Modernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


24. The Age of Reason in action
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
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
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


25. Pessimism and alienation in 'The Darkling Thrust'
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
A Victorian response to 20th century


26. Stabilizing of middle class and concern for morality
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


27. 'Put a bullet in his head'
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Postmodernism
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)


28. Christianized Germanic culture
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Romantic Period (Britain)
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).


29. Valuing of external world of nature
20th-Century Modern Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)


30. What does the line 'the space between - is but an hour' mean?

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31. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet


32. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
Realism/Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)


33. A spiritual biography (Title and period)
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy


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

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35. Symbolic landscape

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36. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
20th-Century Modern Period
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Romantic Period (Britain)


37. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

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38. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
450AD-1500
Victorian Period literature
Author = William Blake
Victorian Period


39. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Modernist literature


40. What period - and what did they imitate?

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41. Moral responsibility
Modernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
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


42. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
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).
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature


43. Example of the metaphysical poem

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44. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
'The Lynching'
Victorian Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)


45. Growth of British Empire
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Victorian Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


46. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period


47. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Realism/Realistic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory


48. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Victorian Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England


49. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Free verse
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
1800-1900


50. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Naturalism/Realist Period
Helps characters survive
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum