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Introduction To English Major

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1. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Realism/Realistic Period
Victorian Period

2. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Free verse
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

3. 'Relentless change'
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
20th-Century Modern Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period

4. About the exaltation of art

5. Moral responsibility
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

6. What period - and what did this result in?
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
1960-present
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry

7. Naturalistic Period
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Realist Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
1960-present

8. Form of Iroquois prayer-song
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Kiowa tale

9. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
'The Lynching'

10. Similarities between 'The Indian Burying Ground' and 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'
Postmodernist literature
Kiowa tale
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified

11. Types of literature from Colonial Period
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Earnest - sincere
Modernism
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem

12. What period - and what did they imitate?

13. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
Victorian Period
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Postmodernist literature

14. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism

15. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
The loss of faith in modern age
Victorian Period literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Romantic Period (Britain)

16. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic 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
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

17. Example of the carpe diem poem

18. Modernist alienation from mainstream

19. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

20. Transnational
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries

21. Protest movements and counterculture
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Postmodernism
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

22. Often compared to Thomas Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'

23. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape

24. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Helps characters survive
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Class conflict

25. Sentimentality and emerging ideology of the 'vanishing Indian'

26. European contact and loss of native cultures
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact

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

28. T. S. Eliot

29. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Modernist literature

30. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)

31. Puritan world-view

32. Continuations of realism - but more pessimistic
Kiowa tale
Naturalism/Realist Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Iroquois prayer-song

33. Scientific revolutions
Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Modernism

34. Disintegration of British Empire
Transnational/Postcolonial
450AD-1500
Victorian Period
Postmodernism

35. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
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)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

36. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Helps characters survive
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact

37. Legacy of European colonialism
Transnational/Postcolonial
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Postmodernist literature
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period

38. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

39. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Victorian Period
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

40. (Title and period)

41. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Modernism

42. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England

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

44. Thomas Gray

45. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)

46. (Period and definition)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Realism/Realistic Period

47. American Renaissance
American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
'Richard Cory' by Robinson

48. Radical break with tradition
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Modernism
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature

49. Example of early modern sonnet
Realist Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Literally - a 'seize the day' poem - Emphasizes uncertainty of life and need to live in the present - Represents a scaling back of hopes and suspicion about future - Aftermath of all the chaos of Eng
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet

50. Each person is innately divine
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Lynching' by McKay