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Introduction To English Major
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1. (Period and definition)
Naturalism/Realist Period
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
2. Growing economic inequality
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature
3. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Fusing mind and nature
4. (Period and effect)
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
5. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
American Romantic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
6. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
Postmodernist literature
Iroquois prayer-song
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
7. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
8. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Postmodernist literature
Harlem Renaissance
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
9. Postcolonial literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
To explain and edify
10. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
Realism/Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
11. Expresses concern about the state of English culture
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
'The Lynching'
12. Writes devotional poetry
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
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
13. Subdivisions of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Naturalism/Realist Period
14. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Modernism
Free verse
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
15. Aim of postcolonial criticism
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
Kiowa tale
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
16. About the exaltation of art
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
17. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Postmodernist literature
Kiowa tale
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
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
18. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
19. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
20. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
20th-Century Modern Period
Modernist literature
21. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Modernist literature
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
22. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
450AD-1500
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
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
23. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
1800-1900
24. Often abstract and non-representational
'The Lynching' by McKay
Modernist literature
Free verse
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
25. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
26. A spiritual biography (Title and period)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Modernism
Cunning weapon
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
27. T. S. Eliot
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Transnational/Postcolonial
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
28. 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
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
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
1830-1901
29. Continuations of realism - but more pessimistic
1607-1800
Naturalism/Realist Period
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
30. Primary texts of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Modernist literature
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
31. Minimalism
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Postmodernist literature
32. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
Romantic Period (Britain)
To explain and edify
The loss of faith in modern age
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
33. Story of the Trojan War (Title - author and period)
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
34. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Postmodernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
35. Culmination of Enlightenment
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Postmodernist literature
36. Transition from Victorian to Modernist
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Class conflict
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
37. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
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)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Romantic Period (Britain)
38. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Cunning weapon
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period
39. Rejection of Victorian ideals of organic wholeness and progress
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Modernism
Modernist literature
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
40. Seriousness and sobriety
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Kiowa tale
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
41. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
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
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
42. (Title and period)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
20th-Century Modern Period
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
43. (Period and characteristics)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Often in form of an argument - Analytic approach - originality - wit - and intellectual tone - Use of colloquial language - Rough or irregular rhythmic patterns - Metaphysical conceit: elaborate - o
Victorian Period
20th-Century Modern Period
44. Ordinary language - plain diction
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
45. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
46. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Victorian Period
47. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Victorian Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
48. Dates of Modernism
1900-1945
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
49. Deflates pretensions and ideals
Realism/Realistic Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Serious - directive
50. How does 'A Supermarket in California' reflect the post-war conditions of the US?
Creates intensity
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?'
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
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
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