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Introduction To English Major

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1. Dates of the Victorian Period
'The Lynching' by McKay
1830-1901
Victorian Period literature
20th-Century Modern Period

2. (Period and characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Romantic Period (Britain)

3. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

4. (Period and types)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
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)

5. Discovery of Americas
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet

6. (Period and definition)
Author = William Blake
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

7. 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.

8. Interest in nature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period

9. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Modernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

10. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Victorian Period
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.'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

11. (Period and definition)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
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?'
Romantic Period (Britain)

12. Conscious efforts to innovate
Postmodernist literature
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

13. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Modernism

14. Freud and psychoanalysis
Romantic Period (Britain)
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
20th-Century Modern Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

15. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
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

16. Human nature is essentially good
Romantic Period (Britain)
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Realism/Realistic Period

17. Example of the country house poem
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Victorian Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'

18. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)
1830-1901
Cunning weapon
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
20th-Century Modern Period

19. (Period and characteristics)
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)
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
Postmodernist literature
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English

20. (Title and period)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Modernist literature

21. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Victorian Period literature
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition

22. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Victorian Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Postmodernist literature

23. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Naturalism/Realist Period
Modernism
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism

24. Example of the politicized sonnet
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Modernism
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

25. Return to classics
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

26. Often abstract and non-representational
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Modernist literature
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)

27. Radically experimental and diverse
Naturalism/Realist Period
Postmodernist literature
Modernism
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

28. Example of the metaphysical poem
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Realism/Realistic Period
Harlem Renaissance
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem

29. the 'Poet of the American Revolution'
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
1900-1945
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'

30. Puritan world-view
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
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
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
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

31. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
450AD-1500
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

32. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith

33. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
1660-1785
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

34. Not rejecting American history
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Serious - directive
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems

35. Scientific revolutions
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period

36. (Period and definiton)
Modernism
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
'Richard Cory' by Robinson

37. (Period and characteristics)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernism
Victorian Period

38. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
1607-1800
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
There is hope (not confident about this)

39. (Period and characteristics)
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
Modernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Class conflict

40. (Author and period)
Philip Freneau - Early National Period/Early American Lit. Direct address to flower - Untouched by humans - protected by nature - But destined to die ('I grieve to see your future doom') - Life is as fleeting as a flower ('the space between - is but
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
20th-Century Modern Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment

41. Paine - Jefferson - 'Declaration of Independence -' The Federalist Papers
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Modernist literature
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI

42. A spiritual biography (Title and period)
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Kiowa tale

43. Emergence of distinctively American literature
Postmodernist literature
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Realist Period

44. Transition from Victorian to Modernist
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Modernist literature
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

45. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial

46. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'
Realism/Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

47. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period

48. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
20th-Century Modern Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

49. English colonization
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
1785-1830

50. Development of printing press
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries

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