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Introduction To English Major

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1. Beat Generation
Postmodernism
Modernist literature
Kiowa tale
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry

2. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Helps characters survive
Postmodernist literature
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art

3. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy

4. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period

5. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
American Romantic Period
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Realism/Realistic Period
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America

6. Example of Literature of Contact
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature
Kiowa tale
Realism/Realistic Period

7. Transnational
Class conflict
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Romantic Period (Britain)

8. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

9. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
20th-Century Modern Period
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'
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
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

10. In the Kiowa tale - language =
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
Cunning weapon
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

11. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernism
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).
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

12. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Victorian Period literature
American Romantic Period

13. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
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
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
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

14. (Title and period)

15. American Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
American Romantic Period
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
1500-1660

16. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
1607-1800

17. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
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
Postmodernist literature
1607-1800
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design

18. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
1785-1830
1660-1785

19. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
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
Postmodernist literature
Kiowa tale
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair

20. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
Romantic Period (Britain)
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism

21. (Period and effect)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Realistic Period

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

23. Uses ordinary language
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Postmodernism
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernist literature

24. Questioning of traditional religion
20th-Century Modern Period
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
1800-1900
Victorian Period

25. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture

26. What period is marked by industrialization?
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
'The Lynching' by McKay
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life

27. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
Modernism
Victorian Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Author = William Blake

28. Stabilizing of middle class and concern for morality
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Victorian Period

29. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Naturalism/Realist Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

30. Disintegration of British Empire
1660-1785
Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period
There is hope (not confident about this)

31. (Author and period)

32. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Realism/Realistic Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
20th-Century Modern Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

33. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Kiowa tale
Free verse
1785-1830
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design

34. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
1660-1785
Postmodernist literature
There is hope (not confident about this)
Postmodernist literature

35. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language

36. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Modernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

37. Influenced by Darwin
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
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
Naturalism/Realist Period
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism

38. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
1800-1900
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
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

39. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Speaker needs strength due to illness

40. Story of the Trojan War (Title - author and period)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Free verse
Postmodernist literature

41. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images
Postmodernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period

42. Impact of WWII
Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

43. Human nature is essentially good
Romantic Period (Britain)
1500-1660
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
20th-Century Modern Period

44. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Victorian Period
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Victorian Period literature

45. Similarities between 'The Indian Burying Ground' and 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Author = William Blake
Realism/Realistic Period

46. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales

47. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
Victorian Period
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

48. (Period and characteristics)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory

49. Dramatic political changes
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self

50. Includes a lot of repressed stuff