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Introduction To English Major
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1. Radically experimental and diverse
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
Modernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period literature
2. Human nature is essentially good
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
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
3. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
4. Emergence of distinctively American literature
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'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
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
5. Sense of loss or disillusionment
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
Modernism
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
Modernist literature
6. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)
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7. Tone = very modern - omniscience
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8. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Earnest - sincere
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
9. Sentimentality and emerging ideology of the 'vanishing Indian'
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10. Transnational literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Modernism
11. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
Romantic Period (Britain)
American Romantic Period
Harlem Renaissance
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
12. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Victorian Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
13. Impact of WWI
20th-Century Modern Period
Modernist literature
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
14. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature
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15. Writes devotional poetry
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
20th-Century Modern Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
16. About the exaltation of art
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17. Westward expansion
American Romantic 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
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
18. (Period and definition)
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
19. Protest movements and counterculture
Naturalism/Realist Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Postmodernism
20. Growth of public education and literacy
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
1900-1945
20th-Century Modern Period
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
21. (Period and effect)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Realism/Realistic Period
22. William Blake Interest in imagination
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23. Emphasis on individual
American Romantic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
24. Visionary - celebrates the imagination
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
25. Conscious efforts to innovate
Realism/Realistic Period
Realist Period
Postmodernist literature
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
26. (Period and definition)
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).
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
27. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
There is hope (not confident about this)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
28. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period literature
The loss of faith in modern age
29. Each person is innately divine
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
30. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Iroquois prayer-song
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Naturalism/Realist Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
31. Individualistic - skeptical of society
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'
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
32. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
'The Lynching' by McKay
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
33. Transition from Victorian to Modernist
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34. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
35. What is this an example of? And name the piece
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36. Uses ordinary language
Realism/Realistic 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).
Author = William Blake
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
37. Belief in reason (America)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
1830-1901
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Realism/Realistic Period
38. Primary texts of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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39. (Title and period)
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40. 'The Disappointment' - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
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41. Interested in singular character (not symbolic - not unnamed)
Realism/Realistic Period
A Victorian response to 20th century
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
42. Growing economic inequality
Cunning weapon
Victorian Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
43. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
44. Claude McKay
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45. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Postmodernist literature
46. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
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
American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
47. Moving from neoclassical to Romantic (America) - (Title and period)
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48. '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
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
49. Impact of WWII
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Postmodernism
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
1500-1660
50. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
Realism/Realistic Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Realistic Period
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
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