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Introduction To English Major
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1. Not rejecting American history
2. Pessimism and alienation in 'The Darkling Thrust'
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
A Victorian response to 20th century
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
3. (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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
4. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Helps characters survive
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
5. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
6. Example of the politicized sonnet
7. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
Postmodernist literature
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Speaker needs strength due to illness
8. Oral tradition
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Postmodernist literature
9. (Title and period)
10. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
20th-Century Modern Period
Author = William Blake
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Harlem Renaissance
11. Return to classics
Victorian Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
The loss of faith in modern age
12. Seriousness and sobriety
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
13. (Period and definition)
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
14. Transnational character
Modernist literature
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
15. 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
16. Edwin Arlington Robinson
17. Impact of WWI
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
18. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
Victorian Period literature
Iroquois prayer-song
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
19. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Fusing mind and nature
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
20. Human nature is essentially good
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
21. Minimalism
Postmodernist literature
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Transnational/Postcolonial
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
22. Phillis Wheatley
23. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial
Postmodernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
24. Age of Transcendentalism
'The Lynching'
American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
25. What period - and what did they imitate?
26. What does the extraordinary 'breaking in' upon everyday existence suggest about Romantics?
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
450AD-1500
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
27. Thomas Gray
28. Protest movements and counterculture
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
29. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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.'
Romantic Period (Britain)
30. Dates of early American literature
Victorian Period literature
1607-1800
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
31. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Postmodernist literature
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Transnational/Postcolonial
32. Interest in nature
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Modernist literature
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Romantic Period (Britain)
33. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Modernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
34. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Author = William Blake
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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
35. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
Postmodernist literature
36. (Period and definition)
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Modernism
Postmodernist literature
37. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
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'
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
38. (Title and period)
39. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Creates intensity
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
20th-Century Modern Period
40. European contact and loss of native cultures
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
41. Story of the Trojan War (Title - author and period)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Postmodernist literature
42. About the exaltation of art
43. Disintegration of British Empire
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
44. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history
45. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
Creates intensity
Realism/Realistic Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
46. Rebellious movement
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernism
47. Expresses concern about the state of English culture
48. Phillis Wheatley
49. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Modernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Speaker needs strength due to illness
50. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Fusing mind and nature