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Introduction To English Major

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1. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Iroquois prayer-song
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence

2. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
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
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism

3. Focus on technologies of stimulation
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
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Romantic Period (Britain)

4. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
Helps characters survive
1660-1785
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

5. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

6. (Period and characteristics)
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
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)

7. Oral tradition
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).
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature

8. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

9. Affluence and consumer culture
The loss of faith in modern age
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Realistic Period
Postmodernism

10. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
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

11. (Period and definition)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Characteristics: An expansion of the traditional scope of the sonnet beyond love - Takes in politics and world events - Shows suppleness and adaptability of the sonnet
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

12. What period is marked by industrialization?
Class conflict
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

13. Similar to Enlightenment
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Naturalism/Realist Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

14. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Iroquois prayer-song
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason

15. Primary texts of the Middle Ages

16. Reformist bent
Victorian Period literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Romantic Period (Britain)

17. Legacy of European colonialism
Modernism
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'

18. Minimalism
Class conflict
American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

19. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'

20. From the Civil War to World War II
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Realistic Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Modernism

21. Satire becomes popular
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
1500-1660
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

22. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Victorian 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
Free verse
Romantic Period (Britain)

23. Minimalism
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

24. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Helps characters survive
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification

25. Discovery of Americas
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

26. 19th century as a corpse seen through winter landscape

27. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Serious - directive

28. William Blake Interest in imagination

29. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

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

31. Time of crisis - turmoil - and disillusionment for many writers
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
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'
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Realistic Period

32. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Modernist literature
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Realistic Period

33. Influenced by Darwin
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Modernist literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
Victorian Period literature

34. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Earnest - sincere
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman

35. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Modernism
Postmodernist literature
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
Naturalism/Realist Period

36. (Period and types)
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Postmodernist literature
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet

37. Example of the country house poem

38. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Modernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

39. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
20th-Century Modern Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

40. (Period and definition)
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

41. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Creates intensity
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason

42. Each person is innately divine
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
1. Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare 2. 'The Sun Rising' by John Donne 3. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson 4. 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell 5. 'One the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by John Milton
Victorian Period

43. Exalted view of art
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernism
Modernist literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

44. (Title and period)
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Realism/Realistic Period
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)

45. Focus on technologies of stimulation
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernism
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Realistic Period

46. (Period and definiton)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Realism/Realistic Period
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
Class conflict

47. Phillis Wheatley

48. Ambivalence
Harlem Renaissance
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

49. On the cusp of romanticism/realism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

50. (Period and characteristics)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature