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Introduction To English Major

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1. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature

2. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet

3. What does the line 'the space between - is but an hour' mean?

4. Transnational
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
1500-1660
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries

5. (Period and definition)
'The Lynching' by McKay
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.'
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification

6. Urbanity - wit - licentiousness
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Modernist literature
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

7. Dates of the Victorian Period
1830-1901
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Interest in imagination

8. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

9. Puritanism and gender
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)
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy

10. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Modernism
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America

11. Monarchy and episcopacy restored
Realism/Realistic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early National Period/Early American Lit.

12. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
Modernist literature
Modernism
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history

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

14. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
20th-Century Modern Period
Kiowa tale
Victorian Period
Realistic Period

15. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)

16. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Romantic Period (Britain)

17. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

18. Continuations of realism - but more pessimistic
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem

19. Detachment from moral bearings
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Postmodernist literature

20. Example of Literature of Contact
Kiowa tale
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature

21. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

22. Celebration of common people

23. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
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
Realism/Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Themes of hybridity (Africa and England) - Ambivalence - 'Where shall I turn - divided to the vein?' - Tug-of-war of identities = should I look back to Europe or Africa for my legacy? - Question of moral
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

24. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
A Victorian response to 20th century

25. (Period and definition)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality

26. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Naturalism/Realist Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales

27. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Lynching'

28. Phillis Wheatley

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

30. Growth of public education and literacy
Victorian Period literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
20th-Century Modern 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

31. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness

32. Primary texts of the Middle Ages

33. Thomas Gray

34. The Age of Reason in action
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
1830-1901
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

35. Puritan world-view

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

37. Uses ordinary language
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries

38. (Title and period)
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material

39. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernist literature
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet

40. Motivated by industrial reform
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period
Modernism
Cunning weapon

41. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Victorian Period literature
Victorian Period literature
Victorian Period literature

42. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Helps characters survive
Interest in imagination

43. What period - and what did they imitate?

44. Conscious efforts to innovate
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty

45. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
American Romantic Period
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Victorian Period literature
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature

46. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment

47. Satire becomes popular
450AD-1500
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
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'

48. Growth of public education and literacy
Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Kiowa tale
20th-Century Modern Period

49. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
1785-1830
Romantic Period (Britain)

50. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
Postmodernist literature
There is hope (not confident about this)
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Postmodernism