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Introduction To English Major

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1. (Period and effect)
There is hope (not confident about this)
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars

2. Christianized Germanic culture
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period

3. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Victorian Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

4. Tomato soup can
Postmodernist literature
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

5. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

6. Moral responsibility
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
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

7. (Title and period)

8. What is 'Dover Beach' a poetical record of?
1830-1901
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)

9. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernism

10. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Victorian Period
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
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Transnational/Postcolonial

11. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Postmodernist literature
Kiowa tale
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

12. Naturalistic Period
Free verse
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Literally - a 'seize the day' poem - Emphasizes uncertainty of life and need to live in the present - Represents a scaling back of hopes and suspicion about future - Aftermath of all the chaos of Eng
Realist Period
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

13. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
1660-1785
Modernism

14. Interrogation and incorporation of mass media forms and images
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Harlem Renaissance
Postmodernist literature

15. Protestant Reformation
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period

16. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
Realism/Realistic Period
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
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
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem

17. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period literature
Creates intensity

18. (Author and period)
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification

19. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'

20. From the Civil War to World War II
Realistic Period
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

21. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum

22. Affluence and consumer culture
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernism

23. English colonization
Postmodernist literature
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
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
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England

24. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'

25. (Title and period)

26. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum

27. Protest movements and counterculture
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
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
Postmodernism
Modernist literature

28. Transition from Victorian to Modernist

29. Langston Hughes

30. Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply'
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
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

31. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence

32. Modernist alienation from mainstream

33. John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

34. What is the focus of the Book of Mergery Kempe?

35. Ordinary language - plain diction

36. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)

37. What period is marked by industrialization?
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
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Helps characters survive

38. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum

39. Satire becomes popular
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Class conflict

40. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

41. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Iroquois prayer-song

42. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Postmodernist literature
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

43. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Class conflict
Victorian Period
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story

44. What period - and what did this result in?
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales

45. Conscious efforts to innovate
Realism/Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism

46. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Helps characters survive
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'

47. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Restoration Period/Neoclassical 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

48. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Transnational/Postcolonial
Realism/Realistic Period
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

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

50. What period - and what did they imitate?