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Introduction To English Major
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1. Modernist alienation from mainstream
Realistic Period
Iroquois prayer-song
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
'The Lynching' by McKay
2. Valuing of external world of nature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
3. Each person is innately divine
American Romantic Period
Modernist literature
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
4. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
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?'
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval 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
5. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
1960-present
20th-Century Modern Period
6. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Victorian Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Realistic Period
7. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
8. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Iroquois prayer-song
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
1785-1830
9. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Realism/Realistic Period
10. Discovery of Americas
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Postmodernist literature
11. (Period and characteristics)
Victorian Period literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
12. Sometimes referred to as the 'Pre-Romantic' period
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
13. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
14. Continuations of realism - but more pessimistic
Naturalism/Realist Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
15. Growth of public education and literacy
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
20th-Century Modern Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
16. Psychoanalytic focus
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Modernist literature
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
17. Questioning of traditional religion
20th-Century Modern Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic 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
Realism/Realistic Period
18. Dates of the Victorian Period
20th-Century Modern Period
1830-1901
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
19. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Fusing mind and nature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Iroquois prayer-song
20. Includes a lot of repressed stuff
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period
To explain and edify
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
21. Beat Generation
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
22. (Period and effect)
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
23. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance
Serious - directive
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
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).
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
24. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
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
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Transnational/Postcolonial
25. Urbanity - wit - licentiousness
Realism/Realistic Period
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
1500-1660
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
26. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
27. Ambivalence
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
28. Belief in reason (America)
Postmodernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
29. Disintegration of British Empire
Transnational/Postcolonial
Cunning weapon
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
30. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Modernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
31. Impact of WWII
Realism/Realistic Period
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
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
Postmodernist literature
32. Avant-garde
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Modernist literature
Speaker needs strength due to illness
33. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
34. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
'The Lynching' by McKay
1960-present
Victorian Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
35. (Title and period)
Kiowa tale
Victorian Period
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
36. Transition from Victorian to Modernist
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Speaker needs strength due to illness
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
37. 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
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
38. 'Put a bullet in his head'
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
39. William Butler Yeats
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Modernist literature
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
40. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Postmodernism
Victorian Period literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
41. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Helps characters survive
42. Story of the Trojan War (Title - author and period)
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
43. (Title and period)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
44. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
45. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Postmodernist literature
46. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
20th-Century Modern Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Class conflict
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
47. Discovery of Americas
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
48. Puritanism and gender
Harlem Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
49. John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
50. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
Romantic Period (Britain) 'To see a world in a grain of sand - And a heaven in a wild flower - Hold infinity in the palm of your hand - And eternity in an hour.'
Romantic Period (Britain)
There is hope (not confident about this)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
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