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Introduction To English Major
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1. Emergence of distinctively American literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Realism/Realistic Period
2. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
There is hope (not confident about this)
Postmodernist literature
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
3. Monarchy and episcopacy restored
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Realism/Realistic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
4. Isolation and alienation from society
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
5. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Fusing mind and nature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
6. Symbolic landscape
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
7. On the cusp of romanticism/realism
American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
8. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Helps characters survive
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
9. Culmination of Enlightenment
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
10. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Creates intensity
11. Edwin Arlington Robinson
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Modernism
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
12. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
Fusing mind and nature
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
13. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
14. 'Relentless change'
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
20th-Century Modern Period
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
15. Transition from Victorian to Modernist
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
16. (Period and definiton)
'The Lynching'
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Victorian Period
17. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Romantic Period (Britain)
18. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)
Victorian Period literature
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
19. Ambivalence
Serious - directive
1660-1785
Victorian Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
20. Growth of British Empire
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
21. Aim of postcolonial criticism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
22. A spiritual biography (Title and period)
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Modernism
Postmodernism
23. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
24. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Earnest - sincere
Modernist literature
25. Radical break with tradition
Fusing mind and nature
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
Modernism
26. (Title and period)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
27. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Interest in imagination
Modernist literature
28. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
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
29. Pessimism and alienation in 'The Darkling Thrust'
A Victorian response to 20th century
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Author = William Blake
Romantic Period (Britain)
30. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
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
Free verse
31. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
32. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
33. Tomato soup can
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
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 - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
34. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Postmodernist 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
35. Rebellious movement
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
To explain and edify
Modernism
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
36. Example of the politicized sonnet
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
American Romantic Period
37. (Period and definition)
Modernism
Victorian Period literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
38. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Postmodernist literature
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Postmodernism
39. William Blake Interest in imagination
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Postmodernist literature
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
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.'
40. Postcolonial literature
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
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
Naturalism/Realist Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
41. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson
Realism/Realistic Period
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).
American Romantic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
42. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature
Fusing mind and nature
Realistic Period
'The Lynching' by McKay
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
43. What ideas did the end of the Commonwealth Period give birth to? What were the poetic responses?
Modernist literature
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
450AD-1500
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)
44. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Victorian Period literature
1800-1900
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
45. Culmination of Enlightenment
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
20th-Century Modern Period
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
46. 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?'
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
47. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Modernist literature
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
1607-1800
Romantic Period (Britain)
48. Protestant Reformation
Realism/Realistic Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
49. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Modernism
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Author = William Blake
50. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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