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Introduction To English Major

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1. Allusive style

2. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

3. Focus on technologies of stimulation
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
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).
Postmodernist literature

4. Pessimism and alienation in 'The Darkling Thrust'
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
A Victorian response to 20th century
Transnational/Postcolonial
Earnest - sincere

5. Allusive style

6. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period

7. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment

8. Moving from neoclassical to Romantic (America) - (Title and period)

9. Influenced by Darwin
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Naturalism/Realist Period

10. Age of Transcendentalism
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
American Romantic 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
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem

11. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
American Romantic Period
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Postmodernist literature

12. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet

13. Example of the politicized sonnet

14. the 'Poet of the American Revolution'

15. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)

16. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Realist Period
Interest in imagination
Romantic Period (Britain)

17. Motivated by industrial reform
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Creates intensity
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Victorian Period

18. (Title and period)
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe

19. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story

20. Modernist alienation from mainstream

21. Affluence and consumer culture
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernism

22. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Realistic Period
1785-1830
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Realism/Realistic Period

23. Dates of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1500-1660
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Romantic Period (Britain)

24. Satire becomes popular
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
A Victorian response to 20th century
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

25. Example of the metaphysical poem

26. (Period and aftermath)
Modernism
Victorian Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Postmodernist literature

27. Beat Generation
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Postmodernism
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

28. Time of crisis - turmoil - and disillusionment for many writers
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
Postmodernism
Postmodernism

29. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
Victorian Period
Victorian Period literature
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
20th-Century Modern Period

30. (Period and effect)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Interest in imagination
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality

31. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
450AD-1500
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
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

32. Growth of public education and literacy
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
20th-Century Modern Period
Transnational/Postcolonial

33. Primary texts of Early Modern Period/Renaissance

34. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Realist Period

35. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness

36. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Naturalism/Realist Period

37. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

38. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
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
A Victorian response to 20th century
Free verse
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

39. What is the focus of the Book of Mergery Kempe?

40. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
20th-Century Modern Period
1960-present
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism

41. Example of Literature of Contact
Kiowa tale
20th-Century Modern Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

42. Example of the carpe diem poem

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

44. Dates of early American literature
Modernist literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
1607-1800

45. Discipline - economy - restraint
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

46. Focus on the fight for survival in a world of urban decay
Naturalism/Realist Period
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Postmodernist literature
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

47. Dates of Modernism
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
1900-1945

48. Exalted view of art
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)

49. (Author and period)
Romantic Period (Britain)
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
'The Lynching'

50. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
Naturalism/Realist Period
Victorian Period literature
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)