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Introduction To English Major

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1. What period is marked by industrialization?
Romantic Period (Britain)
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Naturalism/Realist Period

2. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
The divine workings on 'this creature' - Her tribulations and visions - Reactions of clergy and laypeople to her - Her attempts to have written record of her experiences made
Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

3. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Lynching' by McKay
Postmodernist literature
Kiowa tale

4. Pessimism and alienation in 'The Darkling Thrust'
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
A Victorian response to 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).

5. Psychoanalytic focus
Modernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Modernism

6. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Iroquois prayer-song
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
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).

7. Culmination of Enlightenment
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
20th-Century Modern Period

8. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
20th-Century Modern Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Romantic Period (Britain)

9. Form of Iroquois prayer-song
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Creates intensity

10. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem

11. (Period and definition)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Transnational/Postcolonial
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester

12. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
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
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
20th-Century Modern Period
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'

13. Legacy of European colonialism
Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact

14. Puritan world-view

15. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

16. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique

17. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
20th-Century Modern Period
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Romantic Period (Britain)

18. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

19. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
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
Realism/Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial

20. (Period and definition)
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
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

21. Motivated by industrial reform
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
20th-Century Modern Period

22. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions

23. What period - and what did this result in?
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Modernism

24. Responds to crises of the period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period literature
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
1607-1800

25. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Victorian Period
Modernism

26. Sense of loss or disillusionment
Modernist literature
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'

27. Avoids sentimentalism
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Realism/Realistic Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Victorian Period

28. (Period and characteristics)
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
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
Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

29. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Postmodernist literature
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Interest in imagination

30. Tone = very modern - omniscience

31. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
20th-Century Modern Period

32. (Period and types)
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
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
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet

33. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
20th-Century Modern Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period

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

35. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape

36. Belief in reason (America)
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Lynching' by McKay
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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

37. Thomas Gray

38. Phillis Wheatley

39. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period
Modernist literature
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

40. What was literature's goal in the Augustan Age?
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
To explain and edify
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture

41. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)

42. T. S. Eliot

43. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Fusing mind and nature
Postmodernism

44. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Kiowa tale
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernist literature

45. Focus on technologies of stimulation
Modernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

46. Growth of public education and literacy
20th-Century Modern Period
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period

47. Example of Literature of Contact
American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Kiowa tale

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

49. Claude McKay

50. T. S. Eliot