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Introduction To English Major
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1. Example of the politicized sonnet
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2. Growth of British Empire
450AD-1500
Victorian Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
3. Legacy of European colonialism
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Postmodernism
Victorian Period literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
4. Impact of WWI
Naturalism/Realist Period
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern 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
5. What does the extraordinary 'breaking in' upon everyday existence suggest about Romantics?
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1. 'Fowles in the Frith' 2. 'Erthe Tok of Erthe' 3. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 4. Book of Margery Kempe 5. Troy Book by John Lydgate
Iroquois prayer-song
6. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
7. Detachment from moral bearings
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
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'
Postmodernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
8. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Importance of reason as an essential condition of mankind - Toll of universal truths led to new thinking about gov't: Individual rights and individual liberty - Jefferson and American Constitution - Paine an
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
9. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Harlem Renaissance
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
10. (Period and definition)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
11. Jonathan Swift
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12. (Period and definition)
Postmodernist literature
To explain and edify
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
13. (Period and effect)
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)
Realism/Realistic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
14. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)
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15. Puritan world-view
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16. From the Civil War to World War II
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Harlem Renaissance
Realistic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
17. (Period and aftermath)
Realism/Realistic Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
18. Ordinary language - plain diction
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19. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Realistic Period
1785-1830
20. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Fusing mind and nature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Creates intensity
Naturalism/Realist Period
21. Decolonization throughout 20th century
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).
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Transnational/Postcolonial
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
22. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
20th-Century Modern Period
23. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images
Postmodernist literature
Harlem Renaissance
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
24. Exalted view of art
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Modernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
25. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
'The Lynching' by McKay
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
Modernist literature
26. Motivated by industrial reform
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Victorian Period
27. 'Put a bullet in his head'
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
1607-1800
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
28. Interest in the unconscious
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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)
29. On the cusp of romanticism/realism
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
To explain and edify
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
30. What does the extraordinary 'breaking in' upon everyday existence suggest about Romantics?
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Interest in imagination
Modernism
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
31. Modernist alienation from mainstream
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32. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Earnest - sincere
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Romantic Period (Britain)
33. Beat Generation
A Victorian response to 20th century
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Postmodernism
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
34. Postcolonial literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Postmodernist literature
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
35. (Period and definiton)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Romantic Period (Britain)
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
36. Freud and psychoanalysis
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
37. Protest movements and counterculture
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
Victorian Period
Postmodernism
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
38. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
39. Radically experimental and diverse
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Realism/Realistic Period
40. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
Modernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
41. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
Modernism
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
42. Writes devotional poetry
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
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
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
43. William Butler Yeats
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44. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Postmodernist literature
A Victorian response to 20th century
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
45. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?
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46. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
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
47. (Period and characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Author = William Blake
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
48. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernism
49. Phillis Wheatley
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50. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Victorian Period literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem