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Introduction To English Major

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1. Dates of the Victorian Period
1785-1830
Postmodernist literature
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
1830-1901

2. Story of the Trojan War (Title - author and period)
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
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

3. (Period and characteristics)
Postmodernist literature
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

4. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

5. Aim of postcolonial criticism
Romantic Period (Britain)
The loss of faith in modern age
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Modernism

6. Primary texts of the Middle Ages

7. (Period and characteristics)

8. Derek Walcott

9. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Postmodernism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
20th-Century Modern Period

10. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
1800-1900
20th-Century Modern Period
American Romantic Period

11. Legacy of European colonialism
1830-1901
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial

12. Monarchy and episcopacy restored
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
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

13. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Victorian Period

14. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
1800-1900
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use

15. What period - and what did this result in?
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism

16. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
Victorian Period literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Fusing mind and nature
Modernist literature

17. What is the focus of the Book of Mergery Kempe?

18. Empirically based scientific beliefs
1607-1800
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

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

20. (Period and definition)
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
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
20th-Century Modern Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material

21. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Victorian Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

22. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
American Romantic Period
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Realism/Realistic Period

23. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
Postmodernist literature
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
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)

24. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

25. Growing economic inequality
Victorian Period literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period

26. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
20th-Century Modern Period
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Iroquois prayer-song

27. Human nature is essentially good
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)

28. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
Realistic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period

29. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Fusing mind and nature
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers

30. Return to classics
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Helps characters survive
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason

31. Satire becomes popular
Modernism
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Realistic Period

32. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment

33. 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)
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story

34. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
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

35. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'

36. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Postmodernism
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

37. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)

38. Oral tradition
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive

39. (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Modernist literature
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
20th-Century Modern Period

40. (Title and period)

41. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Victorian Period
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes

42. (Title and period)

43. Dates of Postmodernism
1960-present
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
'The Lynching'

44. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Naturalism/Realist Period
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Cunning weapon

45. Questioning of traditional religion
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period

46. Dates of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
1500-1660
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language

47. Puritan world-view

48. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
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

49. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
American Romantic Period
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet

50. Rejection of Victorian ideals of organic wholeness and progress
Modernism
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)