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Introduction To English Major

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1. Subdivisions of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

2. Each person is innately divine
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
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

3. Dates of early American literature
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
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
1607-1800
'Richard Cory' by Robinson

4. Protestant Reformation
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

5. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Iroquois prayer-song
Modernism
The plight of the author when dependent on patrons - Jonson flatters his patron with idealized portrait of the patron's estate - Examples: Fantasy of laborless bounty (fish and fowl offer themselves) - Happy laborers (they give to the estate's lord).

6. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period literature

7. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?

8. Discipline - economy - restraint
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Romantic Period (Britain)

9. Minimalism
Romantic Period (Britain)
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Postmodernist literature
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

10. Culmination of Enlightenment
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Harlem Renaissance

11. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Romantic Period (Britain)

12. Often compared to Thomas Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'

13. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

14. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
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
Earnest - sincere
Postmodernism

15. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Free verse
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
20th-Century Modern Period
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

16. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)

17. Example of the country house poem

18. Postcolonial literature
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature

19. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
American Romantic Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

20. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)

21. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

22. Growth of public education and literacy
Transnational/Postcolonial
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
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
20th-Century Modern Period

23. Earnest - didactic - sincere
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Victorian Period literature

24. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

25. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

26. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images

27. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Themes of hybridity (Africa and England) - Ambivalence - 'Where shall I turn - divided to the vein?' - Tug-of-war of identities = should I look back to Europe or Africa for my legacy? - Question of moral
Victorian Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

28. Radically experimental and diverse
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life

29. Seriousness and sobriety
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period

30. A spiritual biography (Title and period)
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Themes of hybridity (Africa and England) - Ambivalence - 'Where shall I turn - divided to the vein?' - Tug-of-war of identities = should I look back to Europe or Africa for my legacy? - Question of moral
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Middle Ages/Medieval Period

31. Satire becomes popular
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature

32. Belief in reason (America)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Romantic Period (Britain)

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

34. William Blake Interest in imagination

35. Return to classics
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Postmodernist literature
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

36. 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)
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Victorian Period literature
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI

37. (Period and definition)

38. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Realistic Period

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

40. What ideas did the end of the Commonwealth Period give birth to? What were the poetic responses?

41. Time of crisis - turmoil - and disillusionment for many writers
Transnational/Postcolonial
Realistic Period
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Iroquois prayer-song

42. Moving from neoclassical to Romantic (America) - (Title and period)

43. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
1800-1900
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Realism/Realistic Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

44. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
A Victorian response to 20th century
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Themes of hybridity (Africa and England) - Ambivalence - 'Where shall I turn - divided to the vein?' - Tug-of-war of identities = should I look back to Europe or Africa for my legacy? - Question of moral
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Realistic Period

45. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Modernist literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Speaker needs strength due to illness

46. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet

47. Ishmael Reed (Title and period)

48. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
Fusing mind and nature
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet

49. Dates of Postmodernism
1960-present
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Modernist literature
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial

50. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance