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Introduction To English Major

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1. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
American Romantic Period
Victorian Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

2. Similar to Enlightenment
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
1660-1785
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture

3. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Speaker needs strength due to illness

4. (Period and characteristics)
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
Victorian Period
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment

5. Interest in nature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance

6. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period literature

7. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)

8. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'

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

10. (Period and characteristics)
Victorian Period
American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

11. Monarchy and episcopacy restored
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

12. Example of the politicized sonnet

13. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Victorian Period
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

14. American Renaissance
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Postmodernist literature

15. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
1660-1785
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature

16. Types of literature from Colonial Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
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

17. Modernist alienation from mainstream

18. Nation-states with strong monarchs develop
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

19. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Modernism
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Interest in imagination

20. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Free verse
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

21. (Period and definition)
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Victorian Period
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Romantic Period (Britain)

22. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
450AD-1500
Realistic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

23. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
1500-1660
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans

24. Questioning of traditional religion
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
Harlem Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period
Realism/Realistic Period

25. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Creates intensity
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial

26. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self

27. (Title and period)

28. (Period and definition)
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
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'

29. Example of the metaphysical poem

30. Postcolonial literature
Victorian Period
Victorian Period
Modernism
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations

31. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
Romantic Period (Britain)
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.'
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

32. Claude McKay

33. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem

34. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

35. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
There is hope (not confident about this)

36. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Harlem Renaissance
'The Lynching' by McKay
Romantic Period (Britain)

37. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI

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

39. Return to classics
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Transnational/Postcolonial
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernism

40. Growth of public education and literacy
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
20th-Century Modern Period

41. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment

42. Langston Hughes

43. What does the extraordinary 'breaking in' upon everyday existence suggest about Romantics?
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Harlem Renaissance

44. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
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
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

45. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images

46. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

47. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape

48. What was literature's goal in the Augustan Age?
To explain and edify
Victorian Period literature
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature

49. European contact and loss of native cultures
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Modernist literature

50. Symbolic landscape