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Introduction To English Major

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1. What does the line 'the space between - is but an hour' mean?
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair

2. Puritan world-view
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Kiowa tale
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
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'

3. Interested in singular character (not symbolic - not unnamed)
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Realism/Realistic Period
Realistic Period
Postmodernism

4. the 'Poet of the American Revolution'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'

5. Radically experimental and diverse
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Victorian Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Postmodernist literature

6. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance
Author = William Blake
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive

7. 'Put a bullet in his head'
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
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.'

8. Visionary - celebrates the imagination
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Earnest - sincere
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

9. (Title and period)
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

10. Human nature is essentially good
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernism
Cunning weapon
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device

11. Seriousness and sobriety
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

12. Transnational literature
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
1960-present
'Richard Cory' by Robinson

13. Dates of early American literature
1607-1800
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)

14. Story of the Trojan War (Title - author and period)
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Lynching' by McKay
Transnational/Postcolonial
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique

15. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
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
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)

16. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
Realism/Realistic 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
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Class conflict

17. Freud and psychoanalysis
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period
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

18. Subdivisions of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

19. (Period and definition)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

20. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Romantic Period (Britain)
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Modernist literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

21. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Modernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period

22. Dramatic political changes
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

23. Edwin Arlington Robinson
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Iroquois prayer-song
Modernist literature

24. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
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
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)

25. The proofs - the figures' for 'the mystical moist night-air' is an example of...
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Transnational/Postcolonial 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
Romantic Period (Britain)

26. Transition from Victorian to Modernist
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period

27. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Realism/Realistic Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

28. Questioning of traditional religion
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
20th-Century Modern Period

29. Not rejecting American history
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes

30. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period

31. In the Kiowa tale - language =
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Cunning weapon
Postmodernism

32. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Romantic Period (Britain)

33. 'A Far Cry from Africa' (Period and characteristics)
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
20th-Century Modern Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic 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

34. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Transnational/Postcolonial
Serious - directive
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).

35. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet
Victorian Period literature
Realist Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience

36. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)
Postmodernist literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial

37. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Naturalism/Realist Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
American Romantic Period
Realist Period

38. What period - and what was it?
Harlem Renaissance
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans

39. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism

40. How does 'A Supermarket in California' reflect the post-war conditions of the US?
Site of affluence and consumer culture - Whitman as radical forebear: celebration of bohemia - Contrast of America then and now in the last stanza - 'What America did you have?'
A Victorian response to 20th century
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

41. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
1607-1800
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Postmodernist literature
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces

42. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature

43. Rejects kinds of political and social oppression
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Serious - directive
Postmodernist literature

44. Thomas Hardy
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Victorian Period literature
Modernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

45. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence

46. (Period and definition)
Modernism
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Naturalism/Realist Period

47. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism

48. Valuing of external world of nature
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Romantic Period (Britain)

49. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Lynching' by McKay

50. Psychoanalytic focus
Cunning weapon
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
American Romantic Period
Modernist literature

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