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Introduction To English Major

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1. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Postmodernism
Interest in imagination
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
1660-1785

2. Interest in nature
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
Kiowa tale
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Romantic Period (Britain)

3. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Romantic Period (Britain)

4. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness

5. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)

6. Romantic rejection of reason

7. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy

8. Beat Generation
The working of misogyny - Woman = supreme object of desire AND most loathed object because she is the obstacle to masculine power and mastery - The same style - reveal 'urbanity - wit - licentiousness'
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Postmodernism
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use

9. (Period and types)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period

10. Often abstract and non-representational
Modernist literature
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

11. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Author = William Blake
Postmodernist literature
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

12. Visionary - celebrates the imagination
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Realist Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America

13. 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

14. Example of the carpe diem poem

15. Psychoanalytic focus
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
The working of misogyny - Woman = supreme object of desire AND most loathed object because she is the obstacle to masculine power and mastery - The same style - reveal 'urbanity - wit - licentiousness'
Modernist literature

16. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images
Postmodernist literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

17. Freud and psychoanalysis
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
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period

18. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
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
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Modernism

19. William Butler Yeats

20. (Author and period)
To explain and edify
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device

21. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period
Creates intensity
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines

22. Uses ordinary language
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces

23. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Earnest - sincere
Realistic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI

24. The Age of Reason in action
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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

25. Aim of postcolonial criticism
Postmodernist literature
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Modernist literature
Modernism

26. Emergence of distinctively American literature
A Victorian response to 20th century
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Modernist literature
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)

27. Individualistic - skeptical of society
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it

28. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Postmodernist literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature
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)

29. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
The loss of faith in modern age
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.'
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Realistic Period

30. Emergence of distinctively American literature
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions

31. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
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
Realistic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism

32. Valuing of external world of nature
Romantic Period (Britain)
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

33. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy

34. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

35. Tone = very modern - omniscience

36. Writes devotional poetry
Postmodernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive

37. How does 'A Supermarket in California' reflect the post-war conditions of the US?

38. Belief in reason (America)
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period

39. Motivated by industrial reform
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Modernist literature

40. Growth of literature associated with social protest/cultural nationalist movements
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism

41. Puritanism and gender
Cunning weapon
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
20th-Century Modern Period

42. What period - and what did this result in?
Realism/Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Fusing mind and nature
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment

43. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Victorian Period
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self

44. Sense of loss or disillusionment
'The Lynching' by McKay
Modernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars

45. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Victorian Period

46. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Romantic Period (Britain)
American Romantic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

47. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance

48. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
American Romantic Period
'The Lynching' by McKay
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
'The Lynching' by McKay

49. The proofs - the figures' for 'the mystical moist night-air' is an example of...

50. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
Realism/Realistic Period
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period