Introduction To English Major

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1. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
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
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'


2. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?

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3. Emphasis on individual
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Romantic Period (Britain) 'To see a world in a grain of sand - And a heaven in a wild flower - Hold infinity in the palm of your hand - And eternity in an hour.'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.


4. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Modernist literature
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Postmodernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture


5. Minimalism
Postmodernist literature
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
Transnational/Postcolonial
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)


6. Example of the politicized sonnet

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7. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)

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8. Reign of Queen Victoria
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Victorian Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Realism/Realistic Period


9. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman


10. Transnational character
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature


11. Dates of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1500-1660
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature


12. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason


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

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

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15. What is this an example of? And name the piece

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16. Story of the Trojan War (Title - author and period)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Postmodernism


17. Motivated by industrial reform
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Industrialization: new forms of manufacturing - driven by machines - Transformation of agriculture: land became privately owned and consolidated - New labor: new mass of workers living in mill towns to serve
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Victorian Period


18. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Postmodernist literature
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy


19. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Transnational/Postcolonial
Fusing mind and nature
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).


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

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21. Impact of WWI
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Victorian Period


22. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Romantic Period (Britain)


23. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
Victorian Period
1900-1945
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period


24. Return to classics
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
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).
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material


25. Isolation and alienation from society
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Modernist literature
Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)


26. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


27. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Modernism
Victorian Period literature
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism


28. Thomas Gray

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29. Reformist bent
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period literature


30. What period is marked by industrialization?
American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English


31. Aim of postcolonial criticism
American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Fusing mind and nature


32. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
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)
Class conflict
Postmodernist literature
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance


33. Moral responsibility
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Transnational/Postcolonial 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'
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


34. Jonathan Swift

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35. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Realism/Realistic Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism


36. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance

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37. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
Realist Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism


38. (Period and characteristics)

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39. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Victorian Period
Early National Period/Early American Lit.


40. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness

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41. Example of the country house poem

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42. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
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


43. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'

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44. What was literature's goal in the Augustan Age?
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
To explain and edify
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith


45. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


46. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)


47. Rejection of Victorian ideals of organic wholeness and progress
450AD-1500
Modernist literature
Victorian Period
Modernism


48. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Modernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


49. Romantic rejection of reason

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50. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
Victorian Period literature
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Realism/Realistic Period