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Introduction To English Major

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1. Freud and psychoanalysis
Victorian Period
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
20th-Century Modern Period
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)

2. Detachment from moral bearings
Postmodernist literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Victorian Period

3. Thomas Gray

4. Beat Generation
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Postmodernism

5. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Modernist literature

6. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature

7. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
There is hope (not confident about this)
The loss of faith in modern age
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

8. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

9. Edwin Arlington Robinson

10. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
There is hope (not confident about this)
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition

11. Exalted view of art
Victorian Period
Helps characters survive
Modernist literature
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions

12. Legacy of European colonialism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

13. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Postmodernist literature

14. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?
Serious - directive
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental

15. Growth of literature associated with social protest/cultural nationalist movements
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Modernism
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)

16. Emergence of distinctively American literature
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
1660-1785
American Romantic Period

17. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Earnest - sincere
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Realism/Realistic Period

18. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
Modernist literature
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Victorian Period

19. (Title and period)

20. Dates of Modernism
Realist Period
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
1900-1945
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

21. Impact of WWII
Class conflict
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Romantic Period (Britain)
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

22. T. S. Eliot

23. John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

24. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

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

26. Psychoanalytic focus
Victorian Period literature
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Modernist literature

27. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

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

29. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
20th-Century Modern Period
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith

30. Transition from Victorian to Modernist

31. Empirically based scientific beliefs
Modernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature

32. Form of Iroquois prayer-song
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language

33. Rejection of Victorian ideals of organic wholeness and progress
Modernism
20th-Century Modern Period
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Romantic Period (Britain)

34. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
'The Lynching'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
To explain and edify

35. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
American Romantic Period
Victorian Period

36. (Period and definition)
Postmodernist literature
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design

37. Development of printing press
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions

38. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

39. (Title and period)

40. (Title and period)

41. T. S. Eliot

42. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape

43. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
Romantic Period (Britain)
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Realism/Realistic Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality

44. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet

45. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Victorian Period literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material

46. (Period and characteristics)

47. Radically experimental and diverse
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
1830-1901
Postmodernist literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

48. (Period and characteristics)

49. Impact of WWI
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period

50. (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period