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1. (Period and effect)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
1960-present
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language


2. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'

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3. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Interest in imagination


4. Uses ordinary language
Realism/Realistic Period
1830-1901
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations


5. Allusive style

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6. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Earnest - sincere
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty


7. Interested in singular character (not symbolic - not unnamed)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Realism/Realistic Period
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy


8. 'Relentless change'
Victorian Period literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem


9. Interest in the unconscious
Victorian Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period


10. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Modernist literature


11. Religious controversy and persecution
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Romantic Period (Britain)


12. Conventions of the Augustan Age
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines


13. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
Class conflict
Serious - directive
1960-present
The loss of faith in modern age


14. The proofs - the figures' for 'the mystical moist night-air' is an example of...

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15. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'

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16. Reign of Queen Victoria
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Author = William Blake
Victorian Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness


17. (Title and period)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Romantic Period (Britain)
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience


18. (Period and characteristics)
Postmodernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Earnest - sincere
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism


19. About the exaltation of art

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20. What period - and what did this result in?
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Victorian Period


21. Form of Iroquois prayer-song
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Helps characters survive
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.


22. Return to classics
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason


23. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems


24. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
Victorian Period
20th-Century Modern Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Kiowa tale


25. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
Victorian Period literature
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Modernism
1607-1800


26. Radical break with tradition
Modernism
Postmodernist literature
The working of misogyny - Woman = supreme object of desire AND most loathed object because she is the obstacle to masculine power and mastery - The same style - reveal 'urbanity - wit - licentiousness'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales


27. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)

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28. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Modernism
20th-Century Modern Period


29. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy

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30. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Lynching' by McKay
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot


31. Monarchy and episcopacy restored
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
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
Cunning weapon


32. Belief in reason (America)
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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Lynching' by McKay


33. Oral tradition
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
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
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
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period


34. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
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?'
Harlem Renaissance
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism


35. Psychoanalytic focus
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Modernist literature
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe


36. Detachment from moral bearings
Postmodernist literature
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period literature


37. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
'The Lynching' by McKay
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


38. Dates of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Examines issues of home and exile - Power of art to explore and resolve differences - Explores issues of hybridity through own family - One of her great-grandfathers (an Irish sailor) abandoned his creol
1500-1660
Victorian Period


39. Conscious efforts to innovate
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Postmodernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period


40. Thomas Hardy

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41. Not rejecting American history

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42. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period


43. Puritan world-view

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44. (Title and period)

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45. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
Modernism
Victorian Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Realism/Realistic Period


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

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47. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
20th-Century Modern Period


48. Continuations of realism - but more pessimistic
Naturalism/Realist Period
Postmodernist literature
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Harlem Renaissance


49. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Modernist literature
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)


50. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Transnational/Postcolonial
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem