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Introduction To English Major

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1. European contact and loss of native cultures
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Realism/Realistic Period
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Free verse

2. Legacy of European colonialism
Modernist literature
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial

3. Affluence and consumer culture
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Postmodernism
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence

4. Growing economic inequality
Victorian Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
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
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance

5. Claude McKay

6. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

7. Example of the metaphysical poem

8. Development of printing press
Modernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life

9. Discovery of Americas
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason

10. Impact of WWII on postmodernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
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
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism

11. What period - and what was it?
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

12. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
American Romantic Period
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem

13. (Title and period)
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Realistic Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet

14. (Period and characteristics)
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
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
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature

15. What ideas did the end of the Commonwealth Period give birth to? What were the poetic responses?

16. Postcolonial literature
Realistic Period
Helps characters survive
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press

17. Dates of Modernism
1900-1945
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory

18. Radical break with tradition
Modernism
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence

19. A spiritual biography (Title and period)
Victorian Period
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

20. Responds to crises of the period
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Victorian Period literature
Serious - directive
Postmodernism

21. Radical break with tradition
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Modernism
American Romantic Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use

22. Avant-garde
Modernist literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Naturalism/Realist Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

23. (Period and definition)
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Serious - directive
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

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

25. Protest movements and counterculture
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
1900-1945
Cunning weapon
Postmodernism

26. Subdivisions of early American literature
Kiowa tale
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Romantic Period (Britain)

27. Discipline - economy - restraint
Victorian Period
1800-1900
450AD-1500
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

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

29. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
1500-1660
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

30. Modernist alienation from mainstream

31. (Title and period)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Author = William Blake
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

32. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
450AD-1500

33. Dates of early American literature
Modernist literature
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Postmodernism
1607-1800

34. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
1830-1901
Romantic Period (Britain)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'

35. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism

36. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

37. American Renaissance
Modernist literature
1960-present
American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'

38. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

39. (Title and period)

40. (Period and aftermath)
1960-present
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism

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

42. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
There is hope (not confident about this)
Postmodernist literature
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Realism/Realistic Period

43. Impact of WWII
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance

44. (Title and period)

45. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
Modernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique

46. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Postmodernist literature
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Free verse
Modernism

47. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it

48. Edwin Arlington Robinson

49. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
Postmodernist literature
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
'The Lynching' by McKay

50. 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)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
450AD-1500
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition