Introduction To English Major

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1. Langston Hughes

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2. Influenced by Darwin
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
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Naturalism/Realist Period


3. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period


4. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe


5. Dates of early American literature
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
1607-1800
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Realism/Realistic Period


6. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Victorian Period literature
Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature


7. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

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8. Personal experience > learned knowledge
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period


9. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility


10. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature
American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars


11. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
20th-Century Modern Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
1607-1800


12. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material


13. Not rejecting American history

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14. Associated with prudishness/repression
Naturalism/Realist Period
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Author = William Blake
Victorian Period


15. Moral responsibility
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
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
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material


16. The Age of Reason in action
Harlem Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self


17. Legacy of European colonialism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Transnational/Postcolonial
Harlem Renaissance


18. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
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
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations


19. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?

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20. Edwin Arlington Robinson

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21. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?
Romantic Period (Britain)
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Serious - directive


22. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
Victorian Period literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Postmodernist literature


23. Christianized Germanic culture
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)


24. Reformist bent
Earnest - sincere
Victorian Period literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.


25. Belief in reason (America)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
450AD-1500
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
20th-Century Modern Period


26. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Modernism


27. Emergence of distinctively American literature
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Early National Period/Early American Lit.


28. (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 Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
20th-Century Modern Period


29. Beat Generation
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period
Postmodernism
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem


30. Interest in the unconscious
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
20th-Century Modern Period


31. Ishmael Reed (Title and period)

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32. Human nature is essentially good
1785-1830
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature


33. Minimalism
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
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature


34. Growth of British Empire
Victorian Period
Harlem Renaissance
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period


35. Sentimentality and emerging ideology of the 'vanishing Indian'

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36. In the Kiowa tale - language =
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Cunning weapon


37. Impact of WWII on postmodernism
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism


38. Ambivalence
Philip Freneau - Early National Period/Early American Lit. Direct address to flower - Untouched by humans - protected by nature - But destined to die ('I grieve to see your future doom') - Life is as fleeting as a flower ('the space between - is but
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Lynching'
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


39. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Class conflict
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Earnest - sincere


40. Story of the Trojan War (Title - author and period)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Modernism
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period


41. Westward expansion
American Romantic Period
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau


42. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Creates intensity
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'


43. What is this an example of? And name the piece

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44. William Blake Interest in imagination

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45. Claude McKay

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46. (Period and definition)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Victorian Period literature
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people


47. (Period and definition)

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48. The proofs - the figures' for 'the mystical moist night-air' is an example of...

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49. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
20th-Century Modern Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Postmodernist literature


50. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness

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