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Introduction To English Major
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1. Langston Hughes
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
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
2. (Period and characteristics)
American Romantic Period
Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
3. Seriousness and sobriety
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Realism/Realistic Period
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
4. Individualistic - skeptical of society
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
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).
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
5. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
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
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
6. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
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.'
7. (Title and period)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Postmodernism
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
8. Minimalism
Postmodernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
9. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
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.'
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Harlem Renaissance
10. (Period and types)
Cunning weapon
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
11. Discovery of Americas
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Modernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
12. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
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
The divine workings on 'this creature' - Her tribulations and visions - Reactions of clergy and laypeople to her - Her attempts to have written record of her experiences made
The divine workings on 'this creature' - Her tribulations and visions - Reactions of clergy and laypeople to her - Her attempts to have written record of her experiences made
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
13. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
14. William Blake Interest in imagination
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.'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
15. Earnest - didactic - sincere
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Victorian Period literature
Fusing mind and nature
16. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
17. Earnest - didactic - sincere
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Victorian Period literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
18. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Harlem Renaissance
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
19. Transnational character
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Modernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Postmodernism
20. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
The loss of faith in modern age
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
21. Naturalistic Period
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Modernist literature
Realist Period
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
22. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Lynching' by McKay
23. What ideas did the end of the Commonwealth Period give birth to? What were the poetic responses?
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Modernist literature
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)
Romantic Period (Britain)
24. What was literature's goal in the Augustan Age?
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Postmodernist literature
To explain and edify
25. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Modernist literature
Postmodernist literature
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
26. Scientific revolutions
Realism/Realistic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
27. Transnational literature
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Modernist literature
28. On the cusp of romanticism/realism
Postmodernist literature
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
29. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Naturalism/Realist Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
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
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?'
30. (Period and characteristics)
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
31. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Modernist literature
Free verse
Transnational/Postcolonial
20th-Century Modern Period
32. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
33. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Naturalism/Realist Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Fusing mind and nature
34. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Interest in imagination
Realistic Period
Modernism
The loss of faith in modern age
35. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Realism/Realistic Period
Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature
36. Often abstract and non-representational
Modernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
37. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
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
Transnational/Postcolonial
Class conflict
Romantic Period (Britain)
38. Transnational literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
39. (Period and characteristics)
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.'
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
1785-1830
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
40. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
The loss of faith in modern age
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Postmodernist literature
41. Protestant Reformation
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Class conflict
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
42. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
43. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
44. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Postmodernism
45. (Title and period)
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
46. (Period and definition)
Modernist literature
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Postmodernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
47. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Helps characters survive
48. Stabilizing of middle class and concern for morality
20th-Century Modern Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Victorian Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
49. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
20th-Century Modern Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
The expanded line - Form mirrors content - The expanded line can hold a complete idea - Lets the line expand so that poet can say everything necessary for the subject of that line
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
50. Form of Iroquois prayer-song
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Realism/Realistic Period
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