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Introduction To English Major

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1. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Naturalism/Realist Period
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature

2. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

3. Culmination of Enlightenment
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).
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

4. The Age of Reason in action
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism

5. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Interest in imagination
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

6. What period - and what did this result in?
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Harlem Renaissance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry

7. Example of early modern sonnet
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet

8. Reign of Queen Victoria
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

9. Emergence of distinctively American literature
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature

10. Disintegration of British Empire
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Transnational/Postcolonial

11. What does the line 'the space between - is but an hour' mean?

12. Reformist bent
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
450AD-1500
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Victorian Period literature

13. (Period and types)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
There is hope (not confident about this)
Postmodernist literature

14. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
1830-1901
Romantic Period (Britain)
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Modernist literature

15. (Period and definition)

16. Isolation and alienation from society
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
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

17. Radically experimental and diverse
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
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

18. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Class conflict
Victorian Period

19. Often abstract and non-representational
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernist literature
Victorian Period

20. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)

21. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles

22. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty

23. Three aesthetics of Romantic literature

24. Romantic rejection of reason

25. Tone = very modern - omniscience

26. Often abstract and non-representational
Modernist literature
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

27. Protestant Reformation
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1660-1785
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial

28. Minimalism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period

29. Subdivisions of early American literature
Victorian Period literature
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age

30. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
There is hope (not confident about this)
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period

31. 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

32. Isolation and alienation from society
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial

33. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

34. Drive for learning and artistic expression
1800-1900
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism

35. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
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
Modernist literature

36. Moving from neoclassical to Romantic (America) - (Title and period)

37. In the Kiowa tale - language =
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Harlem Renaissance
Cunning weapon
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

38. (Period and definition)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
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
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period

39. Growing economic inequality
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI

40. (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Victorian Period

41. Ambivalence
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence

42. Empirically based scientific beliefs
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

43. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story

44. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial

45. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period/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
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

46. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
'The Lynching' by McKay
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature

47. Thomas Gray

48. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
1785-1830

49. Radical break with tradition
Modernism
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
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

50. (Period and definition)
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality