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Introduction To English Major

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1. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Romantic Period (Britain)
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Romantic Period (Britain)
Cunning weapon

2. Earnest - didactic - sincere
Victorian Period literature
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
American Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions

3. (Period and characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period

4. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified

5. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'

6. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?

7. The Age of Reason in action
'The Lynching'
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
American Romantic Period

8. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Serious - directive
Characteristics: An expansion of the traditional scope of the sonnet beyond love - Takes in politics and world events - Shows suppleness and adaptability of the sonnet

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

10. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
Postmodernism
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
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Postmodernist literature

11. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
1800-1900
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
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

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

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

14. From the Civil War to World War II
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Realistic Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

15. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
Postmodernist literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

16. Sometimes referred to as the 'Pre-Romantic' period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
1785-1830
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

17. T. S. Eliot

18. Nation-states with strong monarchs develop
Augustan Age/Neoclassical 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
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press

19. Legacy of European colonialism
Transnational/Postcolonial
20th-Century Modern Period
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

20. Satire becomes popular
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Victorian Period literature

21. (Title and period)

22. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
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
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'

23. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
Romantic Period (Britain)
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism

24. Thomas Gray

25. Growing economic inequality
Victorian Period
Iroquois prayer-song
Victorian Period literature
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images

26. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

27. Growth of public education and literacy
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
20th-Century Modern Period
Fusing mind and nature
Cunning weapon

28. Age of Transcendentalism
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)
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).
American Romantic Period
20th-Century Modern Period

29. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
'The Lynching' by McKay
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

30. Disintegration of British Empire
Transnational/Postcolonial
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
20th-Century Modern Period
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'

31. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Victorian Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Victorian Period

32. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
Postmodernist literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Transnational/Postcolonial

33. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?

34. Beat Generation
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Postmodernism
Iroquois prayer-song

35. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

36. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

37. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Victorian Period
1800-1900
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'
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

38. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
American Romantic Period
Victorian Period
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art

39. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Realistic Period
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
1960-present

40. The Age of Reason in action
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
20th-Century Modern Period
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
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

41. About the exaltation of art

42. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
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

43. 'Relentless change'
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
20th-Century Modern Period
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified

44. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
Naturalism/Realist Period
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Modernism
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

45. Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply'
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
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
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Victorian Period

46. Ambivalence
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
1500-1660

47. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness

48. Moral responsibility
Postmodernist literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem

49. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'

50. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'