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Introduction To English Major

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1. European contact and loss of native cultures
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England

2. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)

3. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)
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
Postmodernist literature
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism

4. Transition from Victorian to Modernist

5. Dates of the Neoclassical 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
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Modernist literature
1660-1785

6. (Period and definition)
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Harlem Renaissance
Naturalism/Realist Period

7. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems

8. William Butler Yeats

9. What period - and what did they imitate?

10. Questioning of traditional religion
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
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive

11. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Romantic Period (Britain)

12. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

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

14. Questioning of traditional religion
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period

15. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
1660-1785
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism

16. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
Romantic Period (Britain)
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period literature

17. Belief in reason (America)
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

18. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
'The Lynching' by McKay
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe

19. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America

20. (Title and period)
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Modernism
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe

21. John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

22. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

23. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Transnational/Postcolonial
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernism

24. Beat Generation
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernism

25. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)

26. Growth of British Empire
Victorian Period
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

27. Psychoanalytic focus
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature
Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

28. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

29. Monarchy and episcopacy restored
Modernist literature
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

30. Tomato soup can
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period

31. Example of the politicized sonnet

32. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

33. Puritan world-view

34. Transnational literature
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Modernism

35. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

36. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

37. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
20th-Century Modern Period

38. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
20th-Century Modern Period
1830-1901
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature

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

40. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Harlem Renaissance

41. Impact of WWII on postmodernism
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Romantic Period (Britain)

42. Writes devotional poetry
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive

43. Primary texts of Early Modern Period/Renaissance

44. Return to classics
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 - Age of Reason
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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. Naturalistic 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
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Realist Period

46. In the Kiowa tale - language =
Cunning weapon
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
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions

47. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Interest in imagination
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
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

48. (Title and period)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

49. Belief in reason (America)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'

50. T. S. Eliot