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Introduction To English Major

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1. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Romantic Period (Britain)

2. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
20th-Century Modern Period
Kiowa tale
Romantic Period (Britain)
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries

3. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Modernism
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram

4. Freud and psychoanalysis
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
20th-Century Modern Period

5. Personal experience > learned knowledge
Class conflict
Realism/Realistic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Harlem Renaissance

6. Aim of postcolonial criticism
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
20th-Century Modern Period
1900-1945

7. What is this an example of? And name the piece
20th-Century Modern Period
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Postmodernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

8. Symbolic landscape
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use

9. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
Transnational/Postcolonial
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

10. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

11. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Interest in imagination
American Romantic Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

12. (Period and definition)
'The Lynching' by McKay
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum

13. Reign of Queen Victoria
Victorian Period
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature

14. Sentimentality and emerging ideology of the 'vanishing Indian'
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit

15. Tomato soup can
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images

16. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
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
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

17. Modernist alienation from mainstream
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
'The Lynching' by McKay
Postmodernist literature

18. Rejects kinds of political and social oppression
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age

19. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
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
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

20. Dates of early American literature
1607-1800
There is hope (not confident about this)
Realism/Realistic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

21. Each person is innately divine
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental

22. On the cusp of romanticism/realism
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
450AD-1500
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

23. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

24. Christianized Germanic culture
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Postmodernist literature
The loss of faith in modern age
Kiowa tale

25. Detachment from moral bearings
Postmodernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
Early National Period/Early American Lit.

26. Moving from neoclassical to Romantic (America) - (Title and period)
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
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).
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
20th-Century Modern Period

27. Age of Transcendentalism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial

28. (Period and effect)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature

29. 'Put a bullet in his head'
Transnational/Postcolonial
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Serious - directive
Realism/Realistic Period

30. Hybridity
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
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'

31. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
Modernist literature
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story

32. Celebration of common people
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet

33. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
Victorian Period
Harlem Renaissance
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

34. (Period and definition)
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
1800-1900
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

35. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Realism/Realistic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Romantic Period (Britain)

36. 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
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
20th-Century Modern Period
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem

37. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
A Victorian response to 20th century

38. The Age of Reason in action
Transnational/Postcolonial
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

39. Growth of literature associated with social protest/cultural nationalist movements
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)

40. Transition from Victorian to Modernist
Postmodernism
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
1785-1830

41. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period

42. Tone = very modern - omniscience
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Realistic Period
American Romantic Period

43. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Postmodernist literature
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
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Creates intensity

44. William Butler Yeats
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality

45. (Period and characteristics)
Harlem Renaissance
Modernist literature
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

46. Responds to crises of the period
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Harlem Renaissance
Victorian Period literature
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)

47. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

48. Associated with prudishness/repression
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
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
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature

49. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

50. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Naturalism/Realist Period

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