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Introduction To English Major

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1. (Period and definition)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
A Victorian response to 20th century
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)

2. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?
Realism/Realistic Period
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Serious - directive

3. Westward expansion
Naturalism/Realist Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
American Romantic Period

4. Rebellious movement
Postmodernist literature
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Modernism
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history

5. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?

6. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
The loss of faith in modern age
Modernism
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower

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

8. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Kiowa tale

9. Freud and psychoanalysis
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernist literature

10. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'

11. Beat Generation
Postmodernism
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
20th-Century Modern Period

12. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
1785-1830
Modernist literature

13. Transnational
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernist literature
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries

14. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)

15. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Realistic Period
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
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

16. Interest in the unconscious
Harlem Renaissance
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
20th-Century Modern Period

17. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Victorian Period literature

18. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
Postmodernist literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature

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

20. What does the line 'the space between - is but an hour' mean?

21. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Postmodernist literature
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum

22. Avant-garde
Naturalism/Realist Period
Harlem Renaissance
Modernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period

23. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Victorian Period

24. Culmination of Enlightenment
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
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).
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

25. Uses ordinary language
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
'The Lynching' by McKay
Realism/Realistic Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

26. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture

27. (Period and definition)
Class conflict
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

28. Human nature is essentially good
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry

29. 'The Disappointment' - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

30. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
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

31. Motivated by industrial reform
Victorian Period literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Victorian Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'

32. Dates of Postmodernism
1960-present
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
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Modernism

33. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Harlem Renaissance

34. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'

35. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)

36. (Period and definition)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

37. (Period and aftermath)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

38. Time of crisis - turmoil - and disillusionment for many writers
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realistic Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'

39. Primary texts of the Middle Ages

40. Langston Hughes

41. Aim of postcolonial criticism
Realistic Period
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry

42. Emphasis on individual
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
'Dover Beach' by Arnold

43. Modernist alienation from mainstream

44. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature

45. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
American Romantic Period
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life

46. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'

47. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
Modernist literature
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
Earnest - sincere
Romantic Period (Britain)

48. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Interest in imagination
Realism/Realistic Period

49. Rebellious movement
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Modernism
Modernist literature

50. Growing economic inequality
Postmodernism
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature