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Introduction To English Major

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1. (Author and period)
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
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).
American Romantic Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness

2. A spiritual biography (Title and period)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
20th-Century Modern Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story

3. Avoids overly symbolic characters - supernatural situations - heightened fantasies
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Victorian Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Realistic Period

4. Associated with prudishness/repression
Modernist literature
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Victorian Period

5. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
450AD-1500
1800-1900
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'

6. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Modernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'

7. Interested in singular character (not symbolic - not unnamed)
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernist literature
Postmodernist literature
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes

8. 'A Far Cry from Africa' (Period and characteristics)

9. Subdivisions of early American literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
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
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales

10. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
20th-Century Modern Period
1785-1830
Transnational/Postcolonial

11. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
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 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
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

12. Drive for learning and artistic expression
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)

13. (Title and period)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty

14. How does 'A Supermarket in California' reflect the post-war conditions of the US?

15. (Author and period)

16. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?

17. Avoids sentimentalism
20th-Century Modern Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Iroquois prayer-song

18. Valuing of external world of nature
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernism
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

19. (Period and definition)
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
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality

20. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)

21. Oral tradition
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
1500-1660

22. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
20th-Century Modern Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces

23. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'

24. (Period and characteristics)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Serious - directive
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI

25. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Ordinary speech - dialogue - Nature - Personal experience - Spontaneous wisdom - The imagination - Valorization of life as a mystery to be experienced - not interrogated - Virtue of doing nothing
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernist literature

26. What period - and what did this result in?
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Romantic Period (Britain)

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

28. Interest in nature
1830-1901
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Modernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)

29. Symbolic landscape

30. Assertion of personal experience and the individual author as source of art

31. (Title and period)

32. Jonathan Swift

33. Protest movements and counterculture
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Postmodernism
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

34. Time of crisis - turmoil - and disillusionment for many writers
450AD-1500
1900-1945
Realistic Period
'The Lynching'

35. What period - and what did they imitate?

36. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Modernist literature
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Earnest - sincere
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions

37. Conscious efforts to innovate
20th-Century Modern Period
Modernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

38. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
Postmodernism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Realism/Realistic Period

39. Romantic rejection of reason

40. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Earnest - sincere
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment

41. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
450AD-1500
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
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
Class conflict

42. Isolation and alienation from society
Postmodernist literature
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)
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions

43. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
1785-1830
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

44. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Victorian Period
1660-1785

45. Dates of the Victorian Period
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernist literature
Modernism
1830-1901

46. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Modernist literature
Realistic Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers

47. Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply'
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Ordinary speech - dialogue - Nature - Personal experience - Spontaneous wisdom - The imagination - Valorization of life as a mystery to be experienced - not interrogated - Virtue of doing nothing
1800-1900
Romantic Period (Britain)
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

48. Discovery of Americas
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period

49. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
1607-1800

50. Minimalism
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
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.
Postmodernist literature