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Introduction To English Major

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1. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?

2. Sometimes referred to as the 'Pre-Romantic' period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Free verse
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Postmodernist literature

3. Pessimism and alienation in 'The Darkling Thrust'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
A Victorian response to 20th century
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
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

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

5. (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
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

6. Puritan world-view

7. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Romantic Period (Britain)

8. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art

9. Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply'
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
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
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty

10. English colonization
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
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
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England

11. (Title and period)

12. Langston Hughes

13. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?

14. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Helps characters survive
Romantic Period (Britain)

15. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
Modernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Realist Period
Realism/Realistic Period

16. T. S. Eliot

17. (Title and period)

18. Claude McKay

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

20. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Victorian Period literature
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence

21. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'

22. In the Kiowa tale - language =
Naturalism/Realist Period
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Cunning weapon

23. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Postmodernism
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

24. Conscious efforts to innovate
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Postmodernist literature
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism

25. Example of the carpe diem poem

26. Drive for learning and artistic expression
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

27. Avoids sentimentalism
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
20th-Century Modern Period
Realism/Realistic Period
'Dover Beach' by Arnold

28. Minimalism
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
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Postmodernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

29. Detachment from moral bearings
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Postmodernist literature
The loss of faith in modern age

30. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
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
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control

31. Development of printing press
Naturalism/Realist Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
1785-1830
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture

32. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape

33. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

34. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
Serious - directive
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Examines issues of home and exile - Power of art to explore and resolve differences - Explores issues of hybridity through own family - One of her great-grandfathers (an Irish sailor) abandoned his creol

35. (Title and period)

36. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
20th-Century Modern Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

37. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Modernist literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

38. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

39. William Blake Interest in imagination

40. 'Relentless change'
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
The loss of faith in modern age

41. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
1800-1900
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental

42. Example of the metaphysical poem

43. Each person is innately divine
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

44. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Kiowa tale
Modernism
450AD-1500
20th-Century Modern Period

45. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'

46. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
1830-1901

47. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Examines issues of home and exile - Power of art to explore and resolve differences - Explores issues of hybridity through own family - One of her great-grandfathers (an Irish sailor) abandoned his creol
Harlem Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period

48. (Period and definition)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Romantic Period (Britain)

49. (Period and effect)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Victorian Period literature
Modernist literature

50. Freud and psychoanalysis
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
20th-Century Modern Period
1900-1945
Early Modern Period/Renaissance