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Introduction To English Major

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1. About the exaltation of art
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press

2. Types of literature from Colonial Period
1785-1830
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

3. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Realistic Period
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Postmodernist literature

4. Minimalism
Helps characters survive
Postmodernist literature
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification

5. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Postmodernist literature

6. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Victorian Period

7. Sentimentality and emerging ideology of the 'vanishing Indian'
1. 'Fowles in the Frith' 2. 'Erthe Tok of Erthe' 3. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 4. Book of Margery Kempe 5. Troy Book by John Lydgate
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
1500-1660
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

8. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Modernist literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

9. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English

10. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Victorian Period literature
Victorian Period

11. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Interest in imagination
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period

12. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Victorian Period
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'

13. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
20th-Century Modern 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)
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism

14. Radically experimental and diverse
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Postmodernist literature

15. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self

16. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
Romantic Period (Britain)
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial

17. Age of Transcendentalism
Postmodernist literature
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
Serious - directive
American Romantic Period

18. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernist literature

19. (Period and characteristics)
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Postmodernist literature
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
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

20. Reformist bent
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Victorian Period literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
Transnational/Postcolonial

21. (Title and period)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Realism/Realistic Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified

22. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Realism/Realistic Period
The loss of faith in modern age

23. Example of the country house poem
Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
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)
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem

24. Ordinary language - plain diction
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'

25. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

26. Often compared to Thomas Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Lynching' by McKay

27. (Period and definition)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature

28. What does the extraordinary 'breaking in' upon everyday existence suggest about Romantics?
Romantic Period (Britain)
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Cunning weapon

29. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Transnational/Postcolonial

30. (Period and definition)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism

31. John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Romantic Period (Britain)

32. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
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'
Postmodernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

33. Transnational literature
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
1660-1785

34. Personal experience > learned knowledge
Modernist literature
American Romantic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair

35. (Period and effect)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Modernist literature
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

36. Thomas Hardy
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
Victorian Period literature
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI

37. (Period and characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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

38. Sometimes referred to as the 'Pre-Romantic' period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
American Romantic Period

39. Edwin Arlington Robinson
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Victorian Period

40. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
Class conflict
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
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
Romantic Period (Britain)

41. Example of the country house poem
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernism
Victorian Period
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem

42. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

43. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'
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?'
Victorian Period literature
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
20th-Century Modern Period

44. Moral responsibility
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory

45. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Class conflict
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Modernism
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

46. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Postmodernist literature
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

47. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
There is hope (not confident about this)
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Victorian Period literature
'The Lynching' by McKay

48. Culmination of Enlightenment
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

49. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Realism/Realistic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'

50. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
1500-1660
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces

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