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Introduction To English Major

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1. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
Class conflict
Modernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
Modernism

2. Protestant Reformation
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

3. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Creates intensity
1830-1901
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.

4. Derek Walcott
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism

5. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

6. 'A Far Cry from Africa' (Period and characteristics)
1900-1945
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
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit

7. Ordinary language - plain diction
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval 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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

8. Legacy of European colonialism
Transnational/Postcolonial
Realist Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

9. Focus on the fight for survival in a world of urban decay
Characteristics: An expansion of the traditional scope of the sonnet beyond love - Takes in politics and world events - Shows suppleness and adaptability of the sonnet
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
1960-present
Naturalism/Realist Period

10. Empirically based scientific beliefs
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
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

11. What is this an example of? And name the piece
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Serious - directive
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith

12. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Victorian Period
There is hope (not confident about this)
Romantic Period (Britain)

13. Satire becomes popular
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Postmodernist literature
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive

14. Personal experience > learned knowledge
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'

15. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Characteristics: An expansion of the traditional scope of the sonnet beyond love - Takes in politics and world events - Shows suppleness and adaptability of the sonnet

16. English colonization
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
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

17. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
'The Lynching' by McKay
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism

18. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
There is hope (not confident about this)
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'

19. Tone = very modern - omniscience
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Transnational/Postcolonial
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence

20. Detachment from moral bearings
Postmodernist 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
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason

21. From the Civil War to World War II
1800-1900
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial

22. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Naturalism/Realist Period
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines

23. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Victorian Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

24. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)
Realism/Realistic Period
Realistic Period
Modernist literature
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial

25. How does 'A Supermarket in California' reflect the post-war conditions of the US?
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
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?'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Postmodernist literature

26. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Serious - directive
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

27. Similar to Enlightenment
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive

28. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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.'
American Romantic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

29. The proofs - the figures' for 'the mystical moist night-air' is an example of...
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Naturalism/Realist Period

30. Often compared to Thomas Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Fusing mind and nature
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions

31. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Postmodernism
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period
20th-Century Modern Period

32. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Modernist literature
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism

33. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
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?'

34. Return to classics
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

35. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
Postmodernist literature
1800-1900
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Modernist literature

36. Motivated by industrial reform
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Realistic Period
Victorian Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period

37. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

38. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
1607-1800
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

39. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Victorian Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair

40. (Period and characteristics)
Postmodernist literature
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
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
Postmodernist literature

41. (Title and period)
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
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
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period

42. Postcolonial literature
Serious - directive
American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations

43. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Creates intensity
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial

44. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Modernist literature

45. Dates of Modernism
1900-1945
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
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

46. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Realistic Period
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial

47. Subdivisions of early American literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

48. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
1785-1830
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period

49. Impact of WWI
Modernism
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

50. (Period and characteristics)
Kiowa tale
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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control

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