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Introduction To English Major

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1. Romantic rejection of reason

2. Discovery of Americas
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

3. (Title and period)

4. (Period and definition)

5. What period - and what was it?
Kiowa tale
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans

6. Interested in singular character (not symbolic - not unnamed)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI

7. William Blake Interest in imagination

8. Transnational
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.

9. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Cunning weapon
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
1607-1800

10. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Romantic Period (Britain)
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism

11. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Postmodernism
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Naturalism/Realist Period

12. Oral tradition
Victorian Period literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines

13. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Cunning weapon
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Harlem Renaissance

14. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

15. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature

16. Christianized Germanic culture
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
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
American Romantic Period

17. From the Civil War to World War II
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Realistic Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

18. Visionary - celebrates the imagination
Victorian Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

19. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism

20. (Author and period)

21. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
'The Lynching' by McKay
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

22. Dates of the Victorian Period
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
1607-1800
1830-1901
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

23. Development of printing press
Transnational/Postcolonial
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript 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
Realism/Realistic Period

24. Satire becomes popular
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Romantic Period (Britain)

25. Transnational literature
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

26. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Romantic Period (Britain)

27. (Period and definition)

28. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

29. Valuing of external world of nature
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature

30. Types of literature from Colonial Period
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England

31. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Helps characters survive
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers

32. Allusive style

33. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Realism/Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism

34. Exalted view of art
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature

35. What is this an example of? And name the piece

36. Scientific revolutions
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
American Romantic Period
450AD-1500
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material

37. Paine - Jefferson - 'Declaration of Independence -' The Federalist Papers
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernism
20th-Century Modern Period
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature

38. Stabilizing of middle class and concern for morality
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language

39. (Period and definition)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

40. Legacy of European colonialism
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'

41. (Period and characteristics)

42. What period - and what did they imitate?

43. About the exaltation of art

44. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature

45. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Postmodernist literature
Early National Period/Early American Lit.

46. (Author and period)

47. (Period and definition)
Modernism
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)

48. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
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
Modernist literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'

49. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
American Romantic Period
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
1607-1800

50. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Modernism
Helps characters survive
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Early Modern Period/Renaissance