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Introduction To English Major

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1. Dates of Postmodernism
Speaker needs strength due to illness
1960-present
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
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).

2. Types of literature from Colonial Period
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Romantic Period (Britain)

3. Sense of loss or disillusionment
Modernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period

4. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press

5. Example of the country house poem

6. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
Realism/Realistic Period
Victorian Period
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'

7. Emphasis on individual
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
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).

8. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

9. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
20th-Century Modern Period
450AD-1500
Postmodernist literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

10. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
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
Interest in imagination

11. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)

12. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Helps characters survive
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence

13. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
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
Modernism
Harlem Renaissance
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence

14. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?

15. (Period and types)
Realistic Period
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Romantic Period (Britain)

16. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
Victorian Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

17. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Class conflict
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art

18. Story of the Trojan War (Title - author and period)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period

19. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America

20. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Naturalism/Realist Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

21. (Period and types)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Modernist literature

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

23. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)

24. Paine - Jefferson - 'Declaration of Independence -' The Federalist Papers
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
Modernist literature
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

25. Human nature is essentially good
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
1500-1660
Romantic Period (Britain)
Free verse

26. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
Postmodernism
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Serious - directive
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience

27. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
Modernist literature
1800-1900
Harlem Renaissance
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

28. Stabilizing of middle class and concern for morality
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans

29. What does the extraordinary 'breaking in' upon everyday existence suggest about Romantics?
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

30. the 'Poet of the American Revolution'

31. Tomato soup can
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period

32. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)

33. Affluence and consumer culture
Postmodernism
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
450AD-1500
Fusing mind and nature

34. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?

35. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

36. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Postmodernist literature
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience

37. Ambivalence
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Serious - directive
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

38. Radically experimental and diverse
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

39. What does the line 'the space between - is but an hour' mean?

40. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
20th-Century Modern Period
Creates intensity
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry

41. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
1785-1830
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

42. Responds to crises of the period
Victorian Period literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

43. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
Realism/Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines

44. (Title and period)

45. Freud and psychoanalysis
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
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
20th-Century Modern Period

46. Focus on technologies of stimulation
Creates intensity
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Postmodernist literature

47. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Modernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory

48. Hybridity
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI

49. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Romantic Period (Britain)
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

50. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Harlem Renaissance
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period