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Introduction To English Major

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1. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Modernist literature
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'

2. Legacy of European colonialism
20th-Century Modern Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
1800-1900
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

3. Age of Transcendentalism
Postmodernist literature
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
American Romantic Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

4. Motivated by industrial reform
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Victorian Period
Modernist literature

5. Earnest - didactic - sincere
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period literature
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

6. (Title and 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
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Romantic Period (Britain)

7. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
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?'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language

8. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental

9. Human nature is essentially good
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
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
A Victorian response to 20th century
Romantic Period (Britain)

10. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?

11. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
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
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.

12. Sense of loss or disillusionment
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Modernist literature
1960-present

13. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
Characteristics: An expansion of the traditional scope of the sonnet beyond love - Takes in politics and world events - Shows suppleness and adaptability of the sonnet
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism

14. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

15. Empirically based scientific beliefs
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

16. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Victorian Period
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

17. Avoids sentimentalism
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism

18. Culmination of Enlightenment
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
'The Lynching' by McKay
Modernism
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

19. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
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
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history

20. Minimalism
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
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment

21. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
Modernism
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces

22. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature

23. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Victorian Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram

24. Conventions of the Augustan Age
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

25. What period - and what was it?
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
1660-1785
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
Modernism

26. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
450AD-1500

27. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Characteristics: An expansion of the traditional scope of the sonnet beyond love - Takes in politics and world events - Shows suppleness and adaptability of the sonnet
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions

28. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Romantic Period (Britain)
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
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
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

29. Legacy of European colonialism
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Postmodernist literature

30. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
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
Postmodernism
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature

31. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Victorian Period
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

32. Naturalistic Period
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Realist Period
Realistic Period
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age

33. T. S. Eliot

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

35. Belief in reason (America)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

36. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
American Romantic Period
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles

37. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1960-present
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Realism/Realistic Period

38. Age of Transcendentalism
American Romantic Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
'The Lynching' by McKay

39. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
Romantic Period (Britain)
The loss of faith in modern age
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature

40. Example of early modern sonnet
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
'The Lynching' by McKay
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

41. What period - and what did they imitate?

42. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Postmodernism

43. Dramatic political changes
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Modernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans

44. Subdivisions of early American literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Ideas: Religious toleration - Separation of church and state - Freedom of press censorship - Popular sovereignty - Poetic responses: 'To His Coy Mistress' by Marvell (carpe diem) - 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by Milton (politicized sonnet)
Victorian Period literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age

45. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England

46. The proofs - the figures' for 'the mystical moist night-air' is an example of...

47. Not rejecting American history

48. Aim of postcolonial criticism
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
1800-1900

49. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
There is hope (not confident about this)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
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'
Romantic Period (Britain)

50. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Characteristics: An expansion of the traditional scope of the sonnet beyond love - Takes in politics and world events - Shows suppleness and adaptability of the sonnet
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Victorian Period