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Introduction To English Major

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1. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Romantic Period (Britain)
Fusing mind and nature
Postmodernist literature

2. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair

3. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

4. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
There is hope (not confident about this)
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
1800-1900

5. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Postmodernism
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Realism/Realistic Period

6. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)
Postmodernist literature
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
The expanded line - Form mirrors content - The expanded line can hold a complete idea - Lets the line expand so that poet can say everything necessary for the subject of that line

7. What period - and what did this result in?
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
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
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

8. Personal experience > learned knowledge
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
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
Postmodernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

9. Ambivalence
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life

10. Earnest - didactic - sincere
Romantic Period (Britain)
Interest in imagination
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Victorian Period literature

11. (Period and characteristics)
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
American Romantic Period

12. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
Romantic Period (Britain)
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Postmodernist literature
1900-1945

13. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature

14. 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' Restoration Period/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
1800-1900
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

15. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Postmodernist literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period

16. Emphasis on individual
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature
The loss of faith in modern age
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry

17. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
Realistic Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
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

18. Example of early modern sonnet
The loss of faith in modern age
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet

19. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
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
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Class conflict

20. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines

21. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
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
Victorian Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)

22. Scientific revolutions
1660-1785
Postmodernist literature
A Victorian response to 20th century
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

23. Uses ordinary language
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Realism/Realistic Period

24. Tone = very modern - omniscience
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental

25. Interest in nature
Serious - directive
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism

26. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Fusing mind and 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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet

27. Writes devotional poetry
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Romantic Period (Britain)

28. Hybridity
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

29. (Period and definition)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

30. What period is marked by industrialization?
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

31. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
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
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
The loss of faith in modern age

32. Interest in the unconscious
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
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
20th-Century Modern Period
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England

33. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Realism/Realistic Period

34. Freud and psychoanalysis
20th-Century Modern Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
American Romantic Period
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it

35. Influenced by Darwin
1830-1901
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Realistic Period

36. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Victorian Period

37. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
Modernist literature
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Realism/Realistic Period

38. (Title and period)
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Modernism

39. Types of literature from Colonial Period
20th-Century Modern Period
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

40. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story

41. Transition from Victorian to Modernist
Postmodernist literature
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

42. Minimalism
Postmodernist literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

43. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
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
1830-1901
1785-1830
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI

44. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'
Victorian Period
Victorian Period literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems

45. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
20th-Century Modern Period
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period

46. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)
Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

47. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

48. Satire becomes popular
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period

49. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?
Romantic Period (Britain)
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'
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Modernist literature

50. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
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
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

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