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Introduction To English Major

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1. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

2. Each person is innately divine
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic 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'
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman

3. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
Victorian Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

4. Example of the country house poem

5. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
20th-Century Modern Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story

6. Avoids sentimentalism
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

7. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
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
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

8. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)

9. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Modernism
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Modernist literature
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism

10. Detachment from moral bearings
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Postmodernist literature
Class conflict
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem

11. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period literature
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason

12. How does 'A Supermarket in California' reflect the post-war conditions of the US?

13. Age of Transcendentalism
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period

14. Dates of Modernism
1900-1945
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
20th-Century Modern Period

15. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
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
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
Postmodernist literature
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified

16. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
'The Lynching' by McKay
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Modernist literature
American Romantic Period

17. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Modernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernist literature

18. (Period and characteristics)
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
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

19. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Interest in imagination
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment

20. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
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).

21. In the Kiowa tale - language =
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Cunning weapon
Realism/Realistic Period

22. What period - and what was it?
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
'The Lynching' by McKay
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

23. (Title and period)

24. Growth of public education and literacy
To explain and edify
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet

25. Ishmael Reed (Title and period)

26. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

27. Interested in singular character (not symbolic - not unnamed)
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Postmodernist literature
1785-1830
Realism/Realistic Period

28. Return to classics
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem

29. (Period and characteristics)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

30. On the cusp of romanticism/realism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence

31. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Interest in imagination
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
1785-1830
Modernist literature

32. Jonathan Swift

33. Protest movements and counterculture
Postmodernism
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Realistic Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

34. Radically experimental and diverse
Postmodernist literature
Modernism
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'

35. Sentimentality and emerging ideology of the 'vanishing Indian'

36. Discipline - economy - restraint
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

37. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
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).
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars

38. Deflates pretensions and ideals
Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period

39. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Modernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period

40. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Romantic Period (Britain)
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Helps characters survive
Transnational/Postcolonial

41. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Class conflict
Victorian Period

42. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'

43. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Victorian Period

44. What was literature's goal in the Augustan Age?
To explain and edify
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America

45. Monarchy and episcopacy restored
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Modernism
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

46. Subdivisions of early American literature
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Realistic Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

47. (Title and period)
Modernism
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)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality

48. Minimalism
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)

49. What period - and what did they imitate?

50. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness