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Introduction To English Major

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1. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
1900-1945
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Postmodernism

2. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

3. (Period and definition)
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)

4. Protest movements and counterculture
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Postmodernism
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period

5. T. S. Eliot

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

7. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
To explain and edify
Postmodernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature

8. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
1785-1830
Romantic Period (Britain)
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester

9. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
Victorian Period literature
Victorian Period
Modernism
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story

10. Focus on technologies of stimulation
Postmodernist literature
450AD-1500
There is hope (not confident about this)
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism

11. Reign of Queen Victoria
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically

12. Motivated by industrial reform
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Victorian Period

13. Modernist alienation from mainstream

14. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

15. Impact of WWI
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism

16. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period

17. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
1800-1900
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature

18. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
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
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Realism/Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit

19. Aim of postcolonial criticism
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition

20. Conscious efforts to innovate
Cunning weapon
Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature

21. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
Modernism
Author = William Blake
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

22. Interest in nature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

23. Puritanism and gender
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Romantic Period (Britain)
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Modernist literature

24. Growth of public education and literacy
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
Transnational/Postcolonial
Transnational/Postcolonial
20th-Century Modern Period

25. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
Free verse
Romantic Period (Britain)
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
20th-Century Modern Period

26. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'

27. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
Victorian Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes

28. What period - and what did this result in?
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
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Transnational/Postcolonial
Free verse

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

30. (Title and period)

31. English colonization
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device

32. Personal experience > learned knowledge
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

33. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use

34. Relations of colonizer and colonized
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Modernism
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

35. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'

36. European contact and loss of native cultures
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Naturalism/Realist Period
Victorian Period

37. (Title and period)
Cunning weapon
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Modernism

38. William Butler Yeats

39. Reformist bent
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period literature
Victorian Period

40. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
1660-1785

41. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

42. Types of literature from Colonial Period
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England

43. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Naturalism/Realist Period
1607-1800
Modernism
1785-1830

44. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Realistic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it

45. (Period and characteristics)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
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
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

46. Motivated by industrial reform
Realism/Realistic Period
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Victorian Period
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)

47. Emphasis on individual
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry

48. Visionary - celebrates the imagination
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Victorian Period

49. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history

50. Freud and psychoanalysis
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Free verse
20th-Century Modern Period