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Introduction To English Major

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1. Aim of postcolonial criticism
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
American Romantic Period

2. Thomas Hardy

3. Reformist bent
Victorian Period literature
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernism

4. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
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
Postmodernist literature

5. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

6. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'

7. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

8. Isolation and alienation from society
Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernism
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Romantic Period (Britain)

9. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
Victorian Period literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

10. Dates of early American literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
1830-1901
1607-1800

11. Often abstract and non-representational
Modernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernist literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

12. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Harlem Renaissance
Philip Freneau - Early National Period/Early American Lit. Direct address to flower - Untouched by humans - protected by nature - But destined to die ('I grieve to see your future doom') - Life is as fleeting as a flower ('the space between - is but
Romantic Period (Britain)

13. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Free verse
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
1800-1900

14. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
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
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Cunning weapon

15. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience

16. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
Realism/Realistic Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
1800-1900

17. Ishmael Reed (Title and period)

18. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Naturalism/Realist Period
There is hope (not confident about this)

19. Paine - Jefferson - 'Declaration of Independence -' The Federalist Papers
Victorian Period literature
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

20. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America

21. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
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
Romantic Period (Britain)

22. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Victorian Period
Earnest - sincere

23. Pessimism and alienation in 'The Darkling Thrust'
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
A Victorian response to 20th century
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

24. Ordinary language - plain diction

25. (Author and period)
'The Lynching' by McKay
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
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

26. Types of literature from Colonial Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental

27. Thomas Hardy

28. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'

29. Belief in reason (America)
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
A Victorian response to 20th century
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

30. (Period and characteristics)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Harlem Renaissance

31. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Postmodernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
20th-Century Modern Period

32. In the Kiowa tale - language =
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Cunning weapon
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'

33. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'

34. Avant-garde
Modernism
Modernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Romantic Period (Britain)

35. Radically experimental and diverse
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Postmodernist literature
Realistic Period

36. Celebration of common people

37. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance

38. Modernist alienation from mainstream

39. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
1500-1660
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Postmodernist literature
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence

40. (Title and period)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism

41. Associated with prudishness/repression
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Victorian Period

42. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control

43. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet

44. Puritan world-view

45. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

46. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
1800-1900
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)

47. William Blake Interest in imagination

48. 'Put a bullet in his head'
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
20th-Century Modern Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem

49. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans

50. Modernist alienation from mainstream