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Introduction To English Major
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1. Avoids sentimentalism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
American Romantic Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
2. Example of Literature of Contact
Realism/Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Kiowa tale
3. Often compared to Thomas Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'
Realism/Realistic Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
'The Lynching' by McKay
4. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
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'
Modernism
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
5. (Period and definition)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
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
Postmodernist literature
6. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
Kiowa tale
Romantic Period (Britain)
There is hope (not confident about this)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
7. (Title and period)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Postmodernist literature
8. (Title and period)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
'The Lynching' by McKay
9. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
1960-present
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
1785-1830
10. Growth of literature associated with social protest/cultural nationalist movements
American Romantic Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Postmodernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
11. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Victorian Period
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
12. What period - and what did this result in?
Free verse
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
13. Visionary - celebrates the imagination
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
14. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
1500-1660
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Romantic Period (Britain)
15. (Author and period)
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Class conflict
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
16. Oral tradition
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Realism/Realistic Period
17. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
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
18. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)
Kiowa tale
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
19. Langston Hughes
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
20. Associated with prudishness/repression
Victorian Period
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
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Helps characters survive
21. Often abstract and non-representational
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Modernist literature
Realistic Period
Victorian Period literature
22. Jonathan Swift
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Postmodernist literature
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
23. What period - and what was it?
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Romantic Period (Britain)
1800-1900
24. Discipline - economy - restraint
Modernism
Naturalism/Realist Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
25. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
Realism/Realistic Period
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
26. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Romantic Period (Britain)
Earnest - sincere
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
27. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Modernism
Harlem Renaissance
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
A Victorian response to 20th century
28. (Period and definition)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
To explain and edify
29. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Modernism
Harlem Renaissance
Victorian Period
1800-1900
30. Radically experimental and diverse
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Postmodernist literature
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
31. Transnational literature
Modernist literature
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
32. Thomas Hardy
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
American Romantic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
33. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history
'The Lynching' by McKay
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
34. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
1900-1945
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Reflects the continental traffic of new ideas - Old subject matter - new form - Shows off learning and the mind of the individual
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
35. Transnational
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Reflects the continental traffic of new ideas - Old subject matter - new form - Shows off learning and the mind of the individual
Postmodernist literature
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
36. Stabilizing of middle class and concern for morality
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Victorian Period
Realist Period
37. (Title and period)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
38. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
39. (Period and types)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
40. From the Civil War to World War II
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Realism/Realistic Period
Realistic Period
41. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)
20th-Century Modern Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Victorian Period
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
42. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
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).
43. Valuing of external world of nature
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
44. Emergence of distinctively American literature
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
45. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
1785-1830
Earnest - sincere
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.'
46. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
Author = William Blake
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period literature
47. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Transnational/Postcolonial
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
48. The proofs - the figures' for 'the mystical moist night-air' is an example of...
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
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
Victorian Period
Modernism
49. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Realistic Period
50. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
1800-1900
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
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