Introduction To English Major

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1. Protest movements and counterculture
Postmodernist literature
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Cunning weapon
Postmodernism


2. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Lynching'
Interest in imagination
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use


3. William Butler Yeats

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4. Influenced by Darwin
Naturalism/Realist Period
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason


5. Interest in nature
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
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'
Romantic Period (Britain)
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England


6. Interested in singular character (not symbolic - not unnamed)
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
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
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


7. Celebration of common people

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8. Thomas Gray

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9. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1660-1785


10. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period
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
Serious - directive


11. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
20th-Century Modern Period
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Transnational/Postcolonial literature


12. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

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13. Scientific revolutions
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence


14. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Harlem Renaissance
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period


15. What period - and what was it?
Victorian Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally


16. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
20th-Century Modern Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial


17. (Period and definition)

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18. Development of printing press
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Fusing mind and nature


19. Detachment from moral bearings
Postmodernist literature
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
1660-1785
Realistic Period


20. (Period and aftermath)
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
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
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism


21. Tomato soup can
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Postmodernist literature


22. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
The loss of faith in modern age
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Victorian Period


23. What is this an example of? And name the piece

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24. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
American Romantic Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision


25. Scientific revolutions
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified


26. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
Realism/Realistic Period
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
American Romantic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period


27. Transition from Victorian to Modernist

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28. What does the line 'the space between - is but an hour' mean?

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29. Interest in nature
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive


30. 'A Far Cry from Africa' (Period and characteristics)

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31. Disintegration of British Empire
Transnational/Postcolonial
Kiowa tale
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes


32. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Realism/Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature
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
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence


33. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
Victorian 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
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period


34. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
Realism/Realistic Period
Victorian Period literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans


35. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'

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36. Focus on technologies of stimulation
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
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


37. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Earnest - sincere
Modernist literature
450AD-1500
Modernism


38. What period - and what did this result in?
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
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry


39. Jonathan Swift

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40. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
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
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press


41. (Period and characteristics)
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. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Author = William Blake


42. From the Civil War to World War II
Realistic Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem


43. Edwin Arlington Robinson

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44. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
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
A Victorian response to 20th century


45. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
1500-1660
Realistic Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Postmodernist literature


46. Puritan world-view

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

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48. Rejects kinds of political and social oppression
Naturalism/Realist Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Realism/Realistic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


49. Questioning of traditional religion
Modernist literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
20th-Century Modern Period


50. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Free verse
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art