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Introduction To English Major

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1. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Modernism
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem

2. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period

3. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
20th-Century Modern Period
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

4. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Modernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Realistic Period
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries

5. English colonization
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

6. Religious controversy and persecution
'The Lynching' by McKay
1830-1901
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

7. What is the focus of the Book of Mergery Kempe?

8. Subdivisions of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Interest in imagination
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

9. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images
Postmodernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
American Romantic Period
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

10. Growth of British Empire
Victorian Period
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
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).

11. 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
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period

12. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
Realistic Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self

13. Dates of Postmodernism
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
1960-present
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period

14. American Renaissance
Victorian Period
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
American Romantic Period

15. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period
The loss of faith in modern age
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet

16. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment

17. Example of the country house poem

18. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
American Romantic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

19. (Period and definition)

20. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design

21. (Title and period)

22. Tone = very modern - omniscience

23. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars

24. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
20th-Century Modern Period
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)

25. Freud and psychoanalysis
Creates intensity
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernism
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry

26. (Period and definition)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'

27. Tone = very modern - omniscience

28. Dramatic political changes
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism

29. Radically experimental and diverse
Naturalism/Realist Period
Postmodernist literature
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Site of affluence and consumer culture - Whitman as radical forebear: celebration of bohemia - Contrast of America then and now in the last stanza - 'What America did you have?'

30. A spiritual biography (Title and period)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
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
Modernism

31. Example of the metaphysical poem

32. Ordinary language - plain diction

33. Westward expansion
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period
American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

34. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)

35. Puritan world-view

36. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Creates intensity

37. Detachment from moral bearings
Postmodernist literature
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
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

38. (Period and characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Modernism
Victorian Period

39. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
Modernism
Postmodernist literature
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).
Romantic Period (Britain)

40. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

41. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
Victorian Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

42. Subdivisions of early American literature
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Victorian Period
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age

43. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Harlem Renaissance
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

44. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
Victorian Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Romantic Period (Britain)
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'

45. Modernist alienation from mainstream

46. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Modernism
Modernism
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique

47. (Author and period)

48. Each person is innately divine
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press

49. Sometimes referred to as the 'Pre-Romantic' period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernist literature
Class conflict
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

50. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
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).
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
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