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Introduction To English Major
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1. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
1785-1830
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
2. (Title and period)
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
3. Postcolonial literature
Modernist literature
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
4. Example of the politicized sonnet
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
5. (Period and definition)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
6. (Period and aftermath)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
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
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
7. Transition from Victorian to Modernist
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
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
8. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
9. (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Realist Period
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
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
10. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
11. Dates of Postmodernism
1960-present
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Postmodernist literature
12. In the Kiowa tale - language =
1660-1785
Cunning weapon
Realism/Realistic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
13. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Romantic Period (Britain)
A Victorian response to 20th century
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
14. Return to classics
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Victorian Period literature
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
15. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Postmodernism
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
16. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Cunning weapon
17. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Fusing mind and nature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
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
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
18. Empirically based scientific beliefs
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
19. Subdivisions of early American literature
Iroquois prayer-song
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
20. On the cusp of romanticism/realism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
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
Postmodernist literature
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
21. Sense of loss or disillusionment
1500-1660
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Modernist literature
22. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
23. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Earnest - sincere
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.'
20th-Century Modern Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
24. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
Creates intensity
American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
25. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
26. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Postmodernist literature
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Modernism
27. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Earnest - sincere
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
28. Dramatic political changes
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
29. Hybridity
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
30. Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Realism/Realistic 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
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
31. Often compared to Thomas Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Naturalism/Realist Period
32. Example of the politicized sonnet
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Romantic Period (Britain)
33. Jonathan Swift
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
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) 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
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
34. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
Helps characters survive
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
35. Ishmael Reed (Title and period)
Victorian Period
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
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?'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
36. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Modernist literature
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
37. The Age of Reason in action
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
38. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
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
39. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - 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
Victorian Period
40. Thomas Gray
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Author = William Blake
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
41. (Period and definiton)
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Victorian Period literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
42. Beat Generation
Postmodernism
1900-1945
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
43. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
44. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?
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'
20th-Century Modern Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
45. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
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
Victorian Period literature
46. Primary texts of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
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
Victorian Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
47. Oral tradition
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
48. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
49. (Period and definition)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
50. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
Victorian Period literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Modernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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