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Introduction To English Major

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1. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
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.'
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism

2. Often compared to Thomas Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'

3. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Victorian Period
1607-1800
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control

4. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
1830-1901
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Realism/Realistic Period

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

6. (Period and characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Victorian Period
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)

7. William Butler Yeats

8. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Modernist literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

9. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Interest in imagination
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

10. Dates of Modernism
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
1900-1945
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

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

12. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Realism/Realistic Period
1500-1660

13. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower

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

15. Writes devotional poetry
Romantic Period (Britain)
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?'
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
450AD-1500

16. Growth of literature associated with social protest/cultural nationalist movements
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
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
Postmodernist literature

17. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material

18. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
American Romantic Period

19. Example of the metaphysical poem

20. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

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

22. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
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
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified

23. Similar to Enlightenment
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Realism/Realistic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

24. Modernist alienation from mainstream

25. Impact of WWII
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Victorian Period
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance

26. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Earnest - sincere

27. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Creates intensity
20th-Century Modern Period
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries

28. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Creates intensity
Romantic Period (Britain)
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self

29. What was literature's goal in the Augustan Age?
To explain and edify
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Fusing mind and nature
Postmodernist literature

30. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
American Romantic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature

31. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature

32. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Transnational/Postcolonial
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

33. Radical break with tradition
Modernism
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life

34. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

35. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

36. Aim of postcolonial criticism
Realism/Realistic Period
1785-1830
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition

37. Hybridity
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Modernism
1500-1660

38. Ordinary language - plain diction

39. Empirically based scientific beliefs
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature
Iroquois prayer-song

40. Discipline - economy - restraint
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Modernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England

41. Form of Iroquois prayer-song
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Cunning weapon
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

42. Primary texts of Early Modern Period/Renaissance

43. Emergence of distinctively American literature
To explain and edify
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Postmodernist literature
Early National Period/Early American Lit.

44. Jonathan Swift

45. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Postmodernist literature
Free verse

46. Tone = very modern - omniscience

47. (Period and effect)
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes

48. (Title and period)
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)

49. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
1800-1900
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

50. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality