Introduction To English Major

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1. What period - and what did they imitate?

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2. Continuations of realism - but more pessimistic
Postmodernist literature
1. Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare 2. 'The Sun Rising' by John Donne 3. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson 4. 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell 5. 'One the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by John Milton
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Naturalism/Realist Period


3. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Victorian Period
Class conflict


4. In the Kiowa tale - language =
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
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
Cunning weapon
Naturalism/Realist Period


5. Development of printing press
Modernism
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Realism/Realistic Period


6. Uses ordinary language
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Realism/Realistic Period


7. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Transnational/Postcolonial
Helps characters survive
Modernist literature
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature


8. John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

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9. Dates of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1500-1660
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
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
Author = William Blake


10. Visionary - celebrates the imagination
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Harlem Renaissance
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)


11. Transnational literature
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Earnest - sincere
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


12. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Victorian Period literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Modernism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period


13. English colonization
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'


14. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
1800-1900
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
1900-1945


15. Culmination of Enlightenment
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces


16. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
The loss of faith in modern age


17. Development of printing press
Modernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
A Victorian response to 20th century


18. (Title and period)
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)
Naturalism/Realist Period
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material


19. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
(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 - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Harlem Renaissance


20. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Earnest - sincere
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'


21. Radically experimental and diverse
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature


22. Emphasis on individual
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
20th-Century Modern Period
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Realism/Realistic Period


23. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

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24. the 'Poet of the American Revolution'

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25. Not rejecting American history

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26. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
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)
Free verse


27. (Title and period)
Postmodernist literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism


28. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
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
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)


29. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


30. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

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31. Legacy of European colonialism
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Victorian Period literature


32. Thomas Gray

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33. Celebration of common people

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34. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
1660-1785
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Postmodernist literature
450AD-1500


35. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


36. Impact of WWII
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Postmodernist literature


37. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Class conflict
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'


38. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
20th-Century Modern Period
Harlem Renaissance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment


39. Radical break with tradition
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


40. Jonathan Swift

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41. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Naturalism/Realist Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
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


42. (Title and period)

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43. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Harlem Renaissance
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot


44. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period


45. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Modernism


46. Dates of Modernism
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
1900-1945
Romantic Period (Britain)
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism


47. Scientific revolutions
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Middle Ages/Medieval 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.'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


48. Deflates pretensions and ideals
Postmodernist literature
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Postmodernism
Realism/Realistic Period


49. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Postmodernist literature
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language


50. Puritan world-view

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