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Introduction To English Major

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1. Urbanity - wit - licentiousness
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Ordinary speech - dialogue - Nature - Personal experience - Spontaneous wisdom - The imagination - Valorization of life as a mystery to be experienced - not interrogated - Virtue of doing nothing

2. Responds to crises of the period
Victorian Period
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Harlem Renaissance
Victorian Period literature

3. (Title and period)

4. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)

5. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

6. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)

7. Aim of postcolonial criticism
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Victorian Period
Victorian Period literature
Modernism

8. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism

9. (Title and period)

10. Radically experimental and diverse
Harlem Renaissance
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Postmodernist literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

11. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
'The Lynching'
Realism/Realistic Period
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)

12. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Victorian Period literature
450AD-1500
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment

13. Primary texts of the Middle Ages

14. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?

15. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy

16. Motivated by industrial reform
Naturalism/Realist Period
Victorian Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

17. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
To explain and edify
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)

18. (Period and characteristics)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Earnest - sincere
There is hope (not confident about this)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

19. 'Relentless change'
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
1785-1830
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

20. Romantic rejection of reason

21. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
Postmodernist literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions

22. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism

23. Uses ordinary language
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Realism/Realistic Period

24. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
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
20th-Century Modern Period
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial

25. Transnational literature
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.

26. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
1785-1830
Victorian Period literature

27. (Period and definition)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Romantic Period (Britain)

28. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
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
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
1500-1660

29. Deflates pretensions and ideals
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Realism/Realistic Period
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism

30. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
1960-present
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Victorian Period

31. the 'Poet of the American Revolution'

32. Example of Literature of Contact
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
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?'
Kiowa tale

33. Thomas Gray

34. Responds to crises of the period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Cunning weapon
Victorian Period literature

35. Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply'
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Ordinary speech - dialogue - Nature - Personal experience - Spontaneous wisdom - The imagination - Valorization of life as a mystery to be experienced - not interrogated - Virtue of doing nothing
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

36. Deflates pretensions and ideals
A Victorian response to 20th century
1900-1945
Realism/Realistic Period
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

37. Sometimes referred to as the 'Pre-Romantic' period
Modernism
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period

38. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

39. Assertion of personal experience and the individual author as source of art

40. Radical break with tradition
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life

41. Growth of British Empire
Victorian Period
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Modernist literature
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story

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

43. Motivated by industrial reform
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature

44. Protestant Reformation
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period
1607-1800

45. Impact of WWII on postmodernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

46. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'

47. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Harlem Renaissance

48. From the Civil War to World War II
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realistic Period
Modernist literature
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

49. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Earnest - sincere
Postmodernist literature

50. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions