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Introduction To English Major

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1. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
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. - The reasoning self
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature

2. (Title and period)

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

4. Religious controversy and persecution
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernist literature

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

6. Interest in nature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

7. Culmination of Enlightenment
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance

8. What was literature's goal in the Augustan Age?
To explain and edify
Modernist literature
American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

9. (Period and definition)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design

10. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Naturalism/Realist Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'

11. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'

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

13. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Modernist literature
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial

14. Rejection of Victorian ideals of organic wholeness and progress
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Modernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

15. Writes devotional poetry
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
20th-Century Modern Period
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
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

16. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Age of Sensibility/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
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers

17. 'Put a bullet in his head'
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. - Self-improvement through rational design
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)

18. Development of printing press
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair

19. Similar to Enlightenment
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
1607-1800

20. (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

21. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Class conflict
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

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

23. Avant-garde
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Modernist literature
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images

24. Uses ordinary language
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Realism/Realistic Period
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'

25. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Serious - directive
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
1830-1901
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

26. Naturalistic Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Realist Period
Kiowa tale

27. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
American Romantic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life

28. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
Victorian Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control

29. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Romantic Period (Britain)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art

30. Aim of postcolonial criticism
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
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory

31. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

32. Oral tradition
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
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Fusing mind and nature

33. Thomas Hardy

34. What ideas did the end of the Commonwealth Period give birth to? What were the poetic responses?

35. Discipline - economy - restraint
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
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

36. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
1785-1830
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment

37. Interested in singular character (not symbolic - not unnamed)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Realism/Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
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.'

38. Satire becomes popular
Realistic Period
Creates intensity
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

39. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Free verse
Postmodernist literature
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem

40. Postcolonial literature
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Helps characters survive
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

41. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
Helps characters survive
Victorian Period literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Creates intensity

42. (Period and aftermath)
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
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English

43. Types of literature from Colonial Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Victorian Period literature
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment

44. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

45. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Harlem Renaissance
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period

46. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Modernist literature
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England

47. English colonization
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
1830-1901
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

48. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Victorian Period literature

49. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
Realistic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period

50. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Modernist literature