Introduction To English Major

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1. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Harlem Renaissance
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
20th-Century Modern Period


2. Discovery of Americas
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernism
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'


3. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
Victorian Period literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


4. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
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 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'
American Romantic Period


5. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

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6. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
The loss of faith in modern age
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
A Victorian response to 20th century


7. What is the focus of the Book of Mergery Kempe?

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8. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Realism/Realistic Period
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
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


9. Seriousness and sobriety
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


10. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Postmodernist literature
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI


11. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
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).
Realism/Realistic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


12. (Title and period)

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13. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'


14. (Author and period)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device


15. (Period and effect)
Earnest - sincere
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Victorian Period literature


16. English colonization
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Constantly read and interpret everything as signs of God's favor or punishment - Early man is full of sin - Monitoring self for signs of grace = crucial
Author = William Blake
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces


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

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18. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
American Romantic Period
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Free verse
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles


19. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


20. Jonathan Swift

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

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22. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
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
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
1660-1785
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period


23. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
20th-Century Modern Period
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Constantly read and interpret everything as signs of God's favor or punishment - Early man is full of sin - Monitoring self for signs of grace = crucial


24. Valuing of external world of nature
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Literally - a 'seize the day' poem - Emphasizes uncertainty of life and need to live in the present - Represents a scaling back of hopes and suspicion about future - Aftermath of all the chaos of Eng
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period


25. American Renaissance
American Romantic Period
20th-Century Modern 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
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers


26. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
20th-Century Modern Period
Author = William Blake
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Naturalism/Realist Period


27. What period - and what was it?
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.


28. Naturalistic Period
Victorian Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Literally - a 'seize the day' poem - Emphasizes uncertainty of life and need to live in the present - Represents a scaling back of hopes and suspicion about future - Aftermath of all the chaos of Eng
Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)


29. Seriousness and sobriety
Victorian Period literature
Victorian Period literature
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device


30. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Author = William Blake
Victorian Period literature


31. Emphasis on individual
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Victorian Period
A Victorian response to 20th century
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry


32. Transnational character
Victorian 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
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


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

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34. Sentimentality and emerging ideology of the 'vanishing Indian'

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35. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

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36. Motivated by industrial reform
Naturalism/Realist Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Victorian Period
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith


37. Religious controversy and persecution
Modernism
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower


38. (Period and definition)
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Modernist literature
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.'
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people


39. What ideas did the end of the Commonwealth Period give birth to? What were the poetic responses?

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40. Thomas Gray

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41. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

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

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43. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
1800-1900


44. Culmination of Enlightenment
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period


45. Avant-garde
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)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Modernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period


46. Subdivisions of early American literature
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age


47. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
1660-1785
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory


48. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Romantic Period (Britain)
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Romantic Period (Britain)


49. Questioning of traditional religion
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
20th-Century Modern Period
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification


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

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