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Introduction To English Major

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1. Assertion of personal experience and the individual author as source of art

2. (Author and period)

3. (Title and period)

4. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment

5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
1800-1900
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers

6. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory

7. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Modernism
Transnational/Postcolonial

8. Reformist bent
Naturalism/Realist Period
Victorian Period literature
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'

9. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Free verse
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence

10. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
'The Lynching' by McKay
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Victorian Period

11. Visionary - celebrates the imagination
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
Interest in imagination
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

12. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

13. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

14. Example of the metaphysical poem

15. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy

16. 'A Far Cry from Africa' (Period and characteristics)

17. Christianized Germanic culture
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Postmodernist literature
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism

18. On the cusp of romanticism/realism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

19. What does the line 'the space between - is but an hour' mean?

20. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy

21. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
'Dover Beach' by Arnold

22. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
Victorian Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Modernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)

23. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
1500-1660
Postmodernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Iroquois prayer-song

24. Radically experimental and diverse
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Postmodernist literature
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism

25. T. S. Eliot

26. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'

27. Puritanism and gender
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Postmodernist literature
Victorian 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

28. (Title and period)

29. Religious controversy and persecution
Modernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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

30. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Naturalism/Realist Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI

31. Symbolic landscape

32. Example of the metaphysical poem

33. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
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
Transnational/Postcolonial

34. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

35. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester

36. Example of the country house poem

37. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
Victorian Period literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment

38. Naturalistic Period
Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Romantic Period (Britain)

39. In the Kiowa tale - language =
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernism
Cunning weapon
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

40. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Romantic Period (Britain)
1500-1660
Postmodernist literature

41. Monarchy and episcopacy restored
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Realism/Realistic Period

42. Growing economic inequality
Victorian Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
1500-1660
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe

43. Beat Generation
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
Postmodernism
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
Romantic Period (Britain)

44. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape

45. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Speaker needs strength due to illness
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

46. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Postmodernist literature
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Romantic Period (Britain)

47. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
Harlem Renaissance
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe

48. Nation-states with strong monarchs develop
Victorian Period literature
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
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).

49. How does 'A Supermarket in California' reflect the post-war conditions of the US?

50. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
Modernism
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem