Introduction To English Major

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1. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Fusing mind and nature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism


2. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Realism/Realistic Period


3. What period - and what did they imitate?

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4. Paine - Jefferson - 'Declaration of Independence -' The Federalist Papers
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


5. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
The loss of faith in modern age
1607-1800
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
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


6. 'Put a bullet in his head'
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions


7. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet


8. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature

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9. Dates of Postmodernism
There is hope (not confident about this)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
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
1960-present


10. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

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11. Continuations of realism - but more pessimistic
Modernist literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period


12. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period


13. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature


14. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
1785-1830
Realism/Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature


15. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Romantic Period (Britain)


16. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Class conflict
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Postmodernist literature


17. Westward expansion
1500-1660
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
American Romantic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period


18. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
Victorian 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
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Modernist literature


19. Focus on technologies of stimulation
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Postmodernist literature


20. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

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21. William Blake Interest in imagination

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22. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Postmodernism
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period


23. 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
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
450AD-1500
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI


24. Questioning of traditional religion
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry


25. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


26. Culmination of Enlightenment
Victorian Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Romantic Period (Britain)


27. Edwin Arlington Robinson

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28. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
Harlem Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period


29. (Period and characteristics)

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30. (Period and definition)
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernist literature
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence


31. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
There is hope (not confident about this)
Transnational/Postcolonial


32. Story of the Trojan War (Title - author and period)
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).
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason


33. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
'The Lynching' by McKay
1607-1800
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Naturalism/Realist Period


34. 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
Cunning weapon
American Romantic Period
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries


35. Discipline - economy - restraint
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature


36. Personal experience > learned knowledge
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
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Postmodernism
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


37. the 'Poet of the American Revolution'

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38. Not rejecting American history

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39. Moving from neoclassical to Romantic (America) - (Title and period)

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40. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature


41. Protest movements and counterculture
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Postmodernism
Harlem Renaissance


42. Responds to crises of the period
Victorian Period literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Postmodernism
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)


43. Beat Generation
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Postmodernism
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
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control


44. (Title and period)

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45. Disintegration of British Empire
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Transnational/Postcolonial
Postmodernist literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period


46. Interest in the unconscious
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
20th-Century Modern Period


47. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Iroquois prayer-song
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)


48. Valuing of external world of nature
Realistic Period
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)


49. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)


50. Impact of WWII
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
(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 - Age of Reason