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Introduction To English Major

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1. Each person is innately divine
Fusing mind and nature
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower

2. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy

3. Often abstract and non-representational
To explain and edify
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism
Modernist literature

4. (Period and types)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Postmodernism
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty

5. Celebration of common people

6. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines

7. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Postmodernist literature
'The Lynching'
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically

8. Culmination of Enlightenment
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism

9. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines

10. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

11. Thomas Gray

12. Motivated by industrial reform
Realism/Realistic Period
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

13. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Postmodernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)

14. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

15. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Fusing mind and nature
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Iroquois prayer-song

16. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
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).
Earnest - sincere

17. (Period and aftermath)
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
American Romantic Period

18. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty

19. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance

20. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'

21. (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Harlem Renaissance
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem

22. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

23. How does 'A Supermarket in California' reflect the post-war conditions of the US?

24. Culmination of Enlightenment
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
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
Modernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

25. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
Realism/Realistic Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period

26. Thomas Hardy

27. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Romantic Period (Britain)
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?'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'

28. Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply'
Victorian Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
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
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art

29. Romantic rejection of reason

30. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
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
1800-1900
Romantic Period (Britain)
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair

31. Associated with prudishness/repression
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernist literature
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

32. The Age of Reason in action
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

33. Romantic rejection of reason

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

35. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period

36. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism
Victorian Period
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified

37. Puritan world-view

38. Oral tradition
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
1830-1901

39. The Age of Reason in action
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Characteristics: Male sexual conquest and vulnerability - Extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' - Downfall = premature ejaculation and impotence 'Trembling - confused - despaired - limber - dry - A wishing - weak - un
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Realism/Realistic Period

40. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
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
20th-Century Modern Period
20th-Century Modern Period

41. Moral responsibility
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

42. Form of Iroquois prayer-song
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
'The Lynching' by McKay
1500-1660
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions

43. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment

44. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Naturalism/Realist Period
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

45. Isolation and alienation from society
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

46. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
1830-1901
Speaker needs strength due to illness

47. Earnest - didactic - sincere
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernism

48. 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
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions

49. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Speaker needs strength due to illness
The loss of faith in modern age

50. Reformist bent
Modernism
Realist Period
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Victorian Period literature