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Introduction To English Major

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1. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Romantic Period (Britain)

2. Rebellious movement
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Modernism
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem

3. (Title and period)

4. Interest in the unconscious
Modernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period

5. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

6. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Postmodernism
Modernism
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

7. Emphasis on individual
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'
Postmodernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry

8. Writes devotional poetry
Modernism
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
1660-1785
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive

9. (Period and aftermath)
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
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
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory

10. A spiritual biography (Title and period)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory

11. Growing economic inequality
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Victorian Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

12. Development of printing press
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Naturalism/Realist Period

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

14. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Postmodernist literature
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
Transnational/Postcolonial
Postmodernism

15. (Author and period)

16. Influenced by Darwin
Naturalism/Realist Period
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower

17. (Period and types)
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'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet

18. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Naturalism/Realist Period
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period

19. Valuing of external world of nature
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
Interest in imagination
Modernist literature

20. Not rejecting American history

21. Modernist alienation from mainstream

22. Impact of WWI
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy

23. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Postmodernist literature
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)

24. Aim of postcolonial criticism
Class conflict
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition

25. Responds to crises of the period
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Victorian Period literature
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

26. (Period and definiton)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

27. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Modernism
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period

28. 'The Disappointment' - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

29. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Victorian Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

30. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum

31. Human nature is essentially good
Romantic Period (Britain)
Creates intensity
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
1800-1900

32. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
1800-1900
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason

33. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

34. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique

35. Continuations of realism - but more pessimistic
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Romantic Period (Britain)
Naturalism/Realist Period

36. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

37. Claude McKay

38. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Interest in imagination
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period

39. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
20th-Century Modern Period

40. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
20th-Century Modern 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.'
Postmodernist literature
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification

41. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
450AD-1500
Author = William Blake
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness

42. Phillis Wheatley

43. The Age of Reason in action
Modernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Realism/Realistic Period

44. Exalted view of art
Modernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe

45. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Romantic Period (Britain)
1800-1900

46. What period - and what did this result in?
1830-1901
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
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 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).

47. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?

48. Nation-states with strong monarchs develop
Modernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Postmodernism

49. Protestant Reformation
Postmodernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernist literature
Victorian Period literature

50. Dates of the Victorian 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?'
Victorian Period literature
1830-1901
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans