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Introduction To English Major
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1. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Free verse
The loss of faith in modern age
2. Sometimes referred to as the 'Pre-Romantic' period
Realism/Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
3. Time of crisis - turmoil - and disillusionment for many writers
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Realistic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
4. Symbolic landscape
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
5. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
Postmodernism
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Victorian Period
Iroquois prayer-song
6. Radically experimental and diverse
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Realism/Realistic Period
7. Lorna Goodison (Title and period)
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
20th-Century Modern Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
8. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernist literature
9. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Victorian Period
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
10. What does the extraordinary 'breaking in' upon everyday existence suggest about Romantics?
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
11. Realistic representation of class tension - frustration - envy
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Modernist literature
12. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
There is hope (not confident about this)
Postmodernism
1785-1830
1607-1800
13. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
14. John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Modernism
Postmodernist literature
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
15. Paine - Jefferson - 'Declaration of Independence -' The Federalist Papers
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
Iroquois prayer-song
16. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
1660-1785
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
17. 'The Disappointment' - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Victorian Period
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
18. Example of early modern sonnet
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
19. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
20. (Title and period)
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
1660-1785
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
21. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
1785-1830
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
22. (Period and definition)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Kiowa tale
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Interest in imagination
23. Avoids sentimentalism
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
24. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
25. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
1960-present
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Harlem Renaissance
26. Isolation and alienation from society
Romantic Period (Britain)
1660-1785
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
27. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Author = William Blake
Victorian Period literature
28. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Fusing mind and nature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
29. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
30. 'A Far Cry from Africa' (Period and characteristics)
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
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
31. Growth of public education and literacy
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
1500-1660
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
32. Protest movements and counterculture
Postmodernism
Postmodernist literature
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
33. Avant-garde
Modernist literature
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
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
34. Emphasis on individual
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Harlem Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
35. 'Put a bullet in his head'
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Augustan Age/Neoclassical 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)
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
36. What is this an example of? And name the piece
Victorian Period
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
37. Puritanism and gender
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
1500-1660
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
38. Darwinism and the 'crisis of faith'
Serious - directive
1660-1785
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
1500-1660
39. Relations of colonizer and colonized
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
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Modernist literature
Victorian Period
40. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Modernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
41. (Period and definition)
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
42. (Period and characteristics)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Earnest - sincere
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
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
43. Responds to crises of the period
Victorian Period literature
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
American Romantic Period
44. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
45. Langston Hughes
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'The Lynching' by McKay
Serious - directive
46. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
1500-1660
47. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
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
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Realism/Realistic Period
48. Individualistic - skeptical of society
Realism/Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
49. European contact and loss of native cultures
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
50. Aim of postcolonial criticism
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Modernism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
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