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Introduction To English Major

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1. Satire becomes popular
1607-1800
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature

2. In the Kiowa tale - language =
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
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Cunning weapon

3. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
Victorian Period
'The Lynching'
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Realistic Period

4. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality

5. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Postmodernist literature
Free verse
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles

6. Visionary - celebrates the imagination
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Realistic Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
20th-Century Modern Period

7. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
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'
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines

8. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Postmodernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
American Romantic Period

9. Ordinary language - plain diction
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Realism/Realistic Period

10. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
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
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).

11. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Characteristics: Male sexual conquest and vulnerability - Extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' - Downfall = premature ejaculation and impotence 'Trembling - confused - despaired - limber - dry - A wishing - weak - un
Victorian Period literature

12. Responds to crises of the period
Victorian Period literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

13. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith

14. What is this an example of? And name the piece
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
Realist Period
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

15. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

16. From the Civil War to World War II
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Realistic Period

17. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions

18. Growth of public education and literacy
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Ideas: Religious toleration - Separation of church and state - Freedom of press censorship - Popular sovereignty - Poetic responses: 'To His Coy Mistress' by Marvell (carpe diem) - 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by Milton (politicized sonnet)

19. What period is marked by industrialization?
Modernist literature
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Modernist literature

20. Influenced by Darwin
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernism
Naturalism/Realist Period
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism

21. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Ideas: Religious toleration - Separation of church and state - Freedom of press censorship - Popular sovereignty - Poetic responses: 'To His Coy Mistress' by Marvell (carpe diem) - 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by Milton (politicized sonnet)
Iroquois prayer-song

22. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
American Romantic 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
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Romantic Period (Britain)

23. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Romantic Period (Britain)
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith

24. Drive for learning and artistic expression
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period literature

25. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Realism/Realistic Period
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)

26. Oral tradition
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.'
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Romantic Period (Britain)
1660-1785

27. Impact of WWII on postmodernism
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Realist Period

28. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
1785-1830
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry

29. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Romantic Period (Britain)

30. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Characteristics: Male sexual conquest and vulnerability - Extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' - Downfall = premature ejaculation and impotence 'Trembling - confused - despaired - limber - dry - A wishing - weak - un
Harlem Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'

31. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Postmodernist literature

32. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
To explain and edify
Romantic Period (Britain)
Interest in imagination

33. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason

34. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Realism/Realistic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature

35. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)
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
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Ideas: Religious toleration - Separation of church and state - Freedom of press censorship - Popular sovereignty - Poetic responses: 'To His Coy Mistress' by Marvell (carpe diem) - 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by Milton (politicized sonnet)
Romantic Period (Britain)

36. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Kiowa tale
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
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

37. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Romantic Period (Britain)
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

38. Similarities between 'The Indian Burying Ground' and 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial

39. What is the focus of the Book of Mergery Kempe?
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
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernist literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age

40. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Helps characters survive
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

41. 'Put a bullet in his head'
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)

42. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
1785-1830
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period

43. Westward expansion
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

44. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Harlem Renaissance
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique

45. Return to classics
Postmodernist literature
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism

46. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

47. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
1800-1900
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Modernism

48. Claude McKay
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
'The Lynching'
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

49. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet
Realism/Realistic Period
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Victorian Period literature

50. Ordinary language - plain diction
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

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