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Introduction To English Major
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1. American Renaissance
American Romantic Period
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
2. Langston Hughes
Victorian Period
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Postmodernism
3. Human nature is essentially good
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Victorian Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
4. Dates of the Victorian Period
Realism/Realistic Period
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
1830-1901
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
5. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
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
1900-1945
Romantic Period (Britain)
6. William Butler Yeats
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
'The Lynching'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
7. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Victorian Period literature
8. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
Victorian Period
1800-1900
The loss of faith in modern age
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
9. Dramatic political changes
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
10. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
Postmodernist literature
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Romantic Period (Britain)
11. Example of the carpe diem poem
20th-Century Modern Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Postmodernist literature
12. Dates of Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Fusing mind and nature
1900-1945
13. 'The Disappointment' - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
450AD-1500
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
14. Culmination of Enlightenment
Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
15. (Author and period)
Victorian Period literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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
16. Psychoanalytic focus
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
17. Postcolonial literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
American Romantic Period
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
18. Modernist alienation from mainstream
Author = William Blake
'The Lynching' by McKay
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
19. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
1. 'Fowles in the Frith' 2. 'Erthe Tok of Erthe' 3. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 4. Book of Margery Kempe 5. Troy Book by John Lydgate
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
20. Reformist bent
Ideas: Religious toleration - Separation of church and state - Freedom of press censorship - Popular sovereignty - Poetic responses: 'To His Coy Mistress' by Marvell (carpe diem) - 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by Milton (politicized sonnet)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Victorian Period literature
21. Emphasis on individual
Naturalism/Realist Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Realistic Period
22. (Title and period)
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
'The Lynching' by McKay
23. (Period and definition)
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
24. Detachment from moral bearings
Postmodernist literature
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
25. Hybridity
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Author = William Blake
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Victorian Period
26. Dates of Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
1900-1945
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
27. Disintegration of British Empire
Transnational/Postcolonial
American Romantic Period
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
28. (Period and definition)
Victorian Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
29. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
Modernism
Victorian Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
The working of misogyny - Woman = supreme object of desire AND most loathed object because she is the obstacle to masculine power and mastery - The same style - reveal 'urbanity - wit - licentiousness'
30. Deflates pretensions and ideals
Victorian Period
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Realism/Realistic Period
31. Radically experimental and diverse
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
The loss of faith in modern age
Postmodernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
32. Transnational character
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
1900-1945
Postmodernist literature
33. Radically experimental and diverse
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Postmodernist literature
34. (Period and definition)
Romantic Period (Britain)
1660-1785
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
35. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
Modernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
36. Valuing of external world of nature
Romantic Period (Britain)
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Helps characters survive
Victorian Period
37. (Period and definition)
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
38. Christianized Germanic culture
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
1660-1785
39. (Period and types)
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
40. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
450AD-1500
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
41. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
1785-1830
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Realistic Period
42. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
Victorian Period
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
43. T. S. Eliot
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
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
44. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
American Romantic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
45. Westward expansion
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Constantly read and interpret everything as signs of God's favor or punishment - Early man is full of sin - Monitoring self for signs of grace = crucial
American Romantic Period
46. (Title and period)
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
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
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
47. Celebration of common people
Realistic Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Iroquois prayer-song
48. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
20th-Century Modern Period
There is hope (not confident about this)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
450AD-1500
49. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
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
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
50. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature
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