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1. Deflates pretensions and ideals
Realism/Realistic Period
Helps characters survive
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Romantic Period (Britain)

2. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
450AD-1500
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'

3. Subdivisions of early American literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Postmodernist literature

4. Modernist alienation from mainstream
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
'The Lynching' by McKay

5. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson
Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
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).
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

6. Legacy of European colonialism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Transnational/Postcolonial

7. Seriousness and sobriety
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Earnest - sincere
Victorian Period

8. Valuing of external world of nature
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

9. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'

10. Urbanity - wit - licentiousness
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Modernist literature

11. 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)
Victorian Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory

12. What period - and what was it?
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Fusing mind and nature

13. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'
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.'
Modernist literature
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

14. Rebellious movement
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernism
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

15. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
Transnational/Postcolonial
To explain and edify
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)

16. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Modernist literature
Helps characters survive
Romantic Period (Britain)
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

17. William Butler Yeats
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Postmodernism
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial

18. What period - and what was it?
Postmodernism
There is hope (not confident about this)
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans

19. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
1800-1900
Class conflict

20. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
Author = William Blake
1785-1830
1800-1900
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

21. (Period and definition)
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'

22. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Author = William Blake

23. Reformist bent
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Harlem Renaissance
Victorian Period
Victorian Period literature

24. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
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
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
1800-1900
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified

25. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period

26. Culmination of Enlightenment
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

27. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
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
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Helps characters survive
Postmodernist literature

28. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
450AD-1500
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Victorian Period literature

29. What does the extraordinary 'breaking in' upon everyday existence suggest about Romantics?
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
20th-Century Modern Period

30. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Modernist literature

31. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Modernist literature
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Postmodernist literature

32. Belief in reason (America)
Earnest - sincere
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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).

33. (Period and characteristics)
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
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
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

34. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Postmodernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period

35. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
1900-1945

36. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
Realistic Period
Iroquois prayer-song
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
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

37. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

38. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
Victorian Period
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Postmodernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period

39. Impact of WWII
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period

40. Satire becomes popular
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

41. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Victorian Period

42. Tone = very modern - omniscience
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Victorian Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental

43. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
Naturalism/Realist Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
20th-Century Modern Period

44. Ishmael Reed (Title and period)
Victorian Period literature
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Victorian Period
'The Lynching' by McKay

45. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
1960-present
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy

46. Impact of WWII on postmodernism
Modernist literature
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism

47. (Title and period)
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Postmodernism
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism

48. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?
Free verse
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Serious - directive

49. Dates of Modernism
1900-1945
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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

50. Oral tradition
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
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory

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