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Introduction To English Major

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1. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'

2. Ordinary language - plain diction

3. Development of printing press
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)

4. Exalted view of art
Modernist literature
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Fusing mind and nature
Transnational/Postcolonial

5. Decolonization throughout 20th century
1800-1900
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature

6. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
450AD-1500
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Cunning weapon

7. Oral tradition
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Naturalism/Realist Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

8. (Period and definition)
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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

9. On the cusp of romanticism/realism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

10. (Period and characteristics)
Fusing mind and nature
'The Lynching' by McKay
Victorian Period
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

11. Primary texts of Early Modern Period/Renaissance

12. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Serious - directive

13. Modernist alienation from mainstream

14. Age of Transcendentalism
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
The working of misogyny - Woman = supreme object of desire AND most loathed object because she is the obstacle to masculine power and mastery - The same style - reveal 'urbanity - wit - licentiousness'
American Romantic Period

15. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

16. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature

17. (Period and aftermath)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
450AD-1500
The working of misogyny - Woman = supreme object of desire AND most loathed object because she is the obstacle to masculine power and mastery - The same style - reveal 'urbanity - wit - licentiousness'

18. Thomas Gray

19. What is this an example of? And name the piece

20. Ambivalence
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 Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Victorian Period

21. Reformist bent
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature
American Romantic Period

22. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Modernism
Harlem Renaissance
Modernist literature

23. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

24. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Victorian Period literature

25. Hybridity
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces

26. (Title and period)

27. Affluence and consumer culture
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Postmodernism
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

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

29. (Author and period)
Victorian Period
1830-1901
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device

30. About the exaltation of art

31. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
Victorian Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines

32. Influenced by Darwin
Naturalism/Realist Period
1607-1800
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

33. Moral responsibility
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

34. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period

35. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Modernism
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

36. Edwin Arlington Robinson

37. Celebration of common people

38. Thomas Hardy

39. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
Characteristics: Male sexual conquest and vulnerability - Extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' - Downfall = premature ejaculation and impotence 'Trembling - confused - despaired - limber - dry - A wishing - weak - un
Class conflict
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

40. European contact and loss of native cultures
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Victorian Period
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries

41. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Romantic Period (Britain)
There is hope (not confident about this)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Harlem Renaissance

42. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness

43. (Period and definition)
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Philip Freneau - Early National Period/Early American Lit. Direct address to flower - Untouched by humans - protected by nature - But destined to die ('I grieve to see your future doom') - Life is as fleeting as a flower ('the space between - is but
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

44. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
450AD-1500
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernist literature
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

45. Belief in reason (America)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
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?'
Modernist literature

46. (Title and period)

47. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)
Free verse
Romantic Period (Britain)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

48. Belief in reason (America)
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Realism/Realistic 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

49. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Fusing mind and nature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Free verse

50. Similarities between 'The Indian Burying Ground' and 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Romantic Period (Britain)
The working of misogyny - Woman = supreme object of desire AND most loathed object because she is the obstacle to masculine power and mastery - The same style - reveal 'urbanity - wit - licentiousness'