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Introduction To English Major

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1. (Author and period)
Victorian Period literature
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason

2. Culmination of Enlightenment
Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

3. Symbolic landscape

4. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment

5. Example of the metaphysical poem

6. (Author and period)

7. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self

8. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
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. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Middle Ages/Medieval Period

10. Story of the Trojan War (Title - author and period)
Postmodernist literature
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period

11. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
Realism/Realistic Period
Realism/Realistic Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
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

12. Detachment from moral bearings
1607-1800
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
American Romantic Period

13. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)

14. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernist literature
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)

15. Ishmael Reed (Title and period)

16. (Period and definiton)
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment

17. Similarities between 'The Indian Burying Ground' and 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'
Realist Period
Realism/Realistic 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
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified

18. (Period and definiton)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Victorian Period literature
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

19. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum

20. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Realism/Realistic Period

21. Each person is innately divine
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Realistic Period
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman

22. Personal experience > learned knowledge
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

23. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
Transnational/Postcolonial
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

24. Celebration of common people

25. Satire becomes popular
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism

26. Form of Iroquois prayer-song
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language

27. Example of the country house poem

28. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
1607-1800
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
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

29. Example of the politicized sonnet

30. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period literature

31. Religious controversy and persecution
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

32. Age of Transcendentalism
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
American Romantic Period
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

33. (Period and types)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Romantic Period (Britain)
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
1607-1800

34. Growth of public education and literacy
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
20th-Century Modern Period

35. Legacy of European colonialism
Victorian Period literature
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

36. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
Age of Sensibility/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
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience

37. Theme of the Kiowa tale
To explain and edify
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
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

38. (Author and period)

39. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Victorian Period
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

40. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Romantic Period (Britain)
American Romantic Period
Fusing mind and nature

41. (Period and definition)
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

42. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Modernist literature
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

43. Monarchy and episcopacy restored
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Middle Ages/Medieval Period

44. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

45. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
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?'
1800-1900
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
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

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

47. Empirically based scientific beliefs
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Earnest - sincere
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernism

48. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Interest in imagination
Victorian Period
Fusing mind and nature
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use

49. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Romantic Period (Britain)

50. A spiritual biography (Title and period)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Realistic Period
Harlem Renaissance
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life