Introduction To English Major

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1. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Class conflict
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


2. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)

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3. Growth of literature associated with social protest/cultural nationalist movements
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period


4. (Period and types)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
A Victorian response to 20th century
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'


5. (Period and effect)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance


6. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Realism/Realistic Period


7. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Naturalism/Realist Period


8. William Butler Yeats

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9. About the exaltation of art

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10. Impact of WWI
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
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
450AD-1500
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread


11. Oral tradition
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
20th-Century Modern Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Creates intensity


12. Dates of Modernism
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
1900-1945
Naturalism/Realist Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press


13. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
450AD-1500
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


14. Age of Transcendentalism
American Romantic Period
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Victorian Period literature
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines


15. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Realism/Realistic Period
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines


16. 'Put a bullet in his head'
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Modernist literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental


17. Empirically based scientific beliefs
Realism/Realistic Period
Fusing mind and nature
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


18. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Harlem Renaissance
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Kiowa tale
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem


19. Example of early modern sonnet
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


20. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Postmodernism
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


21. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

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22. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
There is hope (not confident about this)
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason


23. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realistic Period
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith


24. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Victorian Period
Interest in imagination
American Romantic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.


25. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
Realism/Realistic Period
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Realist Period


26. (Author and period)

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27. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
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


28. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Realistic Period


29. (Period and characteristics)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
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)


30. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
1500-1660
1900-1945
Modernism
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


31. What period - and what did they imitate?

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32. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?

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33. Transnational
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)


34. Reformist bent
Victorian Period literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality


35. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period


36. Primary texts of the Middle Ages

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37. William Blake Interest in imagination

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38. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Realistic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
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


39. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Postmodernist literature
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Romantic Period (Britain)


40. Tone = very modern - omniscience

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41. Motivated by industrial reform
American Romantic Period
Victorian Period
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason


42. Conscious efforts to innovate
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason


43. Puritan world-view

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44. Isolation and alienation from society
Serious - directive
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
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)


45. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Realism/Realistic Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Postmodernist literature


46. What was literature's goal in the Augustan Age?
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
To explain and edify
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet


47. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance

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48. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
American Romantic Period
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England


49. Legacy of European colonialism
Postmodernism
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Transnational/Postcolonial


50. Impact of WWII
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Postmodernist literature
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