Introduction To English Major

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1. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Romantic Period (Britain)
American Romantic Period
Modernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period


2. Urbanity - wit - licentiousness
'The Lynching' by McKay
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Harlem Renaissance


3. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period


4. Valuing of external world of nature
Victorian Period literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces


5. Rebellious movement
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Modernism


6. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Realistic Period
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism


7. Beat Generation
1830-1901
Postmodernism
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism


8. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
1785-1830
Iroquois prayer-song
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence


9. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)
The loss of faith in modern age
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars


10. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
1830-1901
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
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England


11. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
Modernism
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
Harlem Renaissance
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period


12. Christianized Germanic culture
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?'
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory


13. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Harlem Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
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.'
Romantic Period (Britain)


14. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Postmodernist literature
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy


15. Celebration of common people

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16. Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

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18. Questioning of traditional religion
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Modernism
20th-Century Modern Period


19. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Postmodernist literature
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Victorian Period


20. English colonization
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem


21. Radical break with tradition
A Victorian response to 20th century
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Modernism
Transnational/Postcolonial


22. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
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
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature


23. the 'Poet of the American Revolution'

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24. (Period and definition)
Harlem Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Modernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press


25. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
Cunning weapon
Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty


26. (Title and period)

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27. (Period and definition)
Modernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact


28. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
1800-1900
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Realism/Realistic Period


29. Radical break with tradition
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period literature
Modernism


30. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Modernist literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.


31. (Title and period)

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32. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Modernist literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature


33. A spiritual biography (Title and period)
Victorian Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Iroquois prayer-song


34. Impact of WWII
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem


35. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period
Realism/Realistic Period


36. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
Interest in imagination
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions


37. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial


38. (Title and period)

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39. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness

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40. Dates of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period
1500-1660
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period


41. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
20th-Century Modern Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Realistic Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use


42. Thomas Hardy

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43. Protest movements and counterculture
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it


44. Development of printing press
Earnest - sincere
Naturalism/Realist Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)


45. Westward expansion
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
American Romantic Period
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy


46. Responds to crises of the period
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
Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernist literature
Victorian Period literature


47. Radically experimental and diverse
1660-1785
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Naturalism/Realist Period
Postmodernist literature


48. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness

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49. Avant-garde
Modernist literature
Victorian Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


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

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