Introduction To English Major

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1. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

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2. Tomato soup can
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Modernist literature
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'


3. What period is marked by industrialization?
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions


4. Focus on the fight for survival in a world of urban decay
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period
Naturalism/Realist Period


5. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

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6. In the Kiowa tale - language =
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
The loss of faith in modern age
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Cunning weapon


7. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Victorian Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence


8. Christianized Germanic culture
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Modernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism


9. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.


10. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

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11. Discipline - economy - restraint
Iroquois prayer-song
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Victorian Period


12. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'

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13. William Blake Interest in imagination

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14. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
A Victorian response to 20th century


15. Rejection of Victorian ideals of organic wholeness and progress
Modernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Postmodernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot


16. Urbanity - wit - licentiousness
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI


17. Transnational character
Author = William Blake
Modernist literature
1607-1800
Modernism


18. Human nature is essentially good
Romantic Period (Britain)
American Romantic Period
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


19. Writes devotional poetry
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
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally


20. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Modernism
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


21. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period


22. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy


23. Deflates pretensions and ideals
Creates intensity
Realism/Realistic Period
Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'


24. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use


25. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
'The Lynching' by McKay
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
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


26. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Realistic Period
There is hope (not confident about this)


27. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
Victorian Period
American Romantic Period
Modernism
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period


28. English colonization
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period


29. (Title and period)

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30. From the Civil War to World War II
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Postmodernism
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Realistic Period


31. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
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
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy


32. Reformist bent
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period literature


33. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment


34. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Cunning weapon
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot


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

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36. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
'The Lynching' by McKay
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period


37. Visionary - celebrates the imagination
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence


38. Postcolonial literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
450AD-1500


39. Types of literature from Colonial Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Lynching'
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England


40. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
Victorian Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
20th-Century Modern Period
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified


41. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Realistic Period
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Realism/Realistic Period


42. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


43. On the cusp of romanticism/realism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic 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'
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
To explain and edify


44. (Period and aftermath)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Transnational/Postcolonial
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device


45. Not rejecting American history

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46. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
450AD-1500
Postmodernist literature
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically


47. Westward expansion
American Romantic Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Modernism
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it


48. From the Civil War to World War II
Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes


49. Exalted view of art
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Modernist literature


50. Sometimes referred to as the 'Pre-Romantic' period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Realistic Period
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet