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Introduction To English Major
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1. Langston Hughes
2. Moral responsibility
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Realistic Period
American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
3. Reign of Queen Victoria
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period
1830-1901
4. 'A Far Cry from Africa' (Period and characteristics)
5. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'
6. Westward expansion
American Romantic Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
7. Avant-garde
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
8. Each person is innately divine
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
9. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
Realism/Realistic Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
20th-Century Modern Period
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).
10. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Transnational/Postcolonial
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
11. Uses ordinary language
Realism/Realistic Period
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
12. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Harlem Renaissance
13. Interested in singular character (not symbolic - not unnamed)
Earnest - sincere
Realism/Realistic Period
Modernist literature
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
14. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
15. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Faith to another ('let us be true') offered as solution to crisis of faith
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
16. Thomas Gray
17. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?
18. (Period and effect)
Author = William Blake
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
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
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
19. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
20. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
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
Postmodernist literature
Fusing mind and nature
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
21. Result of historical context of the Victorian 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
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
22. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
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
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
23. (Title and period)
24. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1785-1830
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
25. (Period and definition)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
26. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Romantic Period (Britain)
1900-1945
27. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
20th-Century Modern Period
American Romantic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
28. Thomas Gray
29. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?
30. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
31. (Author and period)
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
1785-1830
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
32. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Transnational/Postcolonial
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
33. (Period and definition)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
34. Freud and psychoanalysis
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Free verse
35. Puritan world-view
36. Phillis Wheatley
37. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
1660-1785
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
38. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
39. Discipline - economy - restraint
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
40. (Title and period)
41. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
20th-Century Modern 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
42. Moving from neoclassical to Romantic (America) - (Title and period)
43. Expresses concern about the state of English culture
44. Personal experience > learned knowledge
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Harlem Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
45. Interest in nature
Postmodernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
46. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Postmodernist literature
47. Transition from Victorian to Modernist
48. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
20th-Century Modern Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
49. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?
Serious - directive
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
A Victorian response to 20th century
50. Primary texts of the Middle Ages