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Introduction To English Major

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

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

3. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Helps characters survive
Victorian Period literature
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)

4. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
Modernism
Serious - directive
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
1660-1785

5. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Naturalism/Realist Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason

6. Interest in nature
1960-present
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)
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

7. Interested in singular character (not symbolic - not unnamed)
Modernism
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Transnational/Postcolonial
Realism/Realistic Period

8. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
'The Lynching' by McKay
20th-Century Modern Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

9. Moral responsibility
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

10. Freud and psychoanalysis
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
20th-Century Modern Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem

11. Isolation and alienation from society
Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
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

12. Focus on technologies of stimulation
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience

13. 'A Far Cry from Africa' (Period and characteristics)

14. Religious controversy and persecution
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence

15. Dramatic political changes
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Romantic Period (Britain)
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'

16. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)
Philip Freneau - Early National Period/Early American Lit. Direct address to flower - Untouched by humans - protected by nature - But destined to die ('I grieve to see your future doom') - Life is as fleeting as a flower ('the space between - is but
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

17. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

18. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
Kiowa tale
Naturalism/Realist Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Romantic Period (Britain)

19. Langston Hughes

20. Earnest - didactic - sincere
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry

21. European contact and loss of native cultures
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Realism/Realistic Period
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)

22. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness

23. Earnest - didactic - sincere
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period literature

24. In the Kiowa tale - language =
A Victorian response to 20th century
Cunning weapon
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines

25. Questioning of traditional religion
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
20th-Century Modern Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem

26. Rejects kinds of political and social oppression
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

27. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)

28. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England

29. Discipline - economy - restraint
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
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'

30. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)
Realism/Realistic Period
Earnest - sincere
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
Romantic Period (Britain)

31. (Title and period)

32. Claude McKay

33. Disintegration of British Empire
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Transnational/Postcolonial

34. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
1660-1785
Iroquois prayer-song
American Romantic Period

35. (Title and period)

36. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Harlem Renaissance
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Modernist literature

37. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman

38. Radical break with tradition
Modernist literature
Modernism
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

39. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
'The Lynching' by McKay
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers

40. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

41. (Author and period)

42. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower

43. (Title and period)

44. (Period and definition)
Victorian Period literature
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

45. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance

46. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Interest in imagination
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

47. Influenced by Darwin
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Naturalism/Realist Period
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story

48. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

49. Reformist bent
Victorian Period literature
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial

50. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
Postmodernist literature
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period