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Introduction To English Major

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1. (Author and period)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations

2. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
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
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature

3. T. S. Eliot

4. Impact of WWII
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Naturalism/Realist Period
Transnational/Postcolonial

5. Growth of British Empire
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'

6. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

7. Each person is innately divine
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Realism/Realistic Period
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman

8. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Realism/Realistic Period

9. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries

10. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet

11. Emergence of distinctively American literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Author = William Blake
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers

12. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
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

13. Romantic rejection of reason

14. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period

15. Puritan world-view

16. Protestant Reformation
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality

17. American Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1800-1900
American Romantic Period
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair

18. Thomas Gray

19. Westward expansion
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
American Romantic Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

20. Primary texts of Early Modern Period/Renaissance

21. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
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
Victorian Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
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

22. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Harlem Renaissance
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images

23. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Postmodernist literature
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period

24. Interested in singular character (not symbolic - not unnamed)
Postmodernism
Realism/Realistic Period
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers

25. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Romantic Period (Britain)
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Modernist literature

26. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy

27. What period - and what did this result in?
Modernism
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Romantic Period (Britain)

28. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernism
Realism/Realistic Period

29. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Victorian Period literature
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

30. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
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
Modernism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

31. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)

32. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
20th-Century Modern 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 - Epigram

33. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

34. Uses ordinary language
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Realism/Realistic Period
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

35. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

36. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
There is hope (not confident about this)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
'The Lynching'

37. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

38. Relations of colonizer and colonized
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Naturalism/Realist Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

39. Example of the carpe diem poem

40. Motivated by industrial reform
Postmodernist literature
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Victorian Period
20th-Century Modern Period

41. Seriousness and sobriety
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
American Romantic Period

42. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Postmodernist literature

43. Aim of postcolonial criticism
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Romantic Period (Britain)
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Postmodernist literature

44. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem

45. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
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
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
1900-1945

46. Westward expansion
American Romantic Period
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester

47. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
Victorian Period
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

48. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Author = William Blake
Modernism
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Realism/Realistic Period

49. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
American Romantic Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Kiowa tale

50. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Realism/Realistic Period