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Introduction To English Major

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1. Dates of early American literature
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
1607-1800

2. Puritanism and gender
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Modernism

3. Example of early modern sonnet
Class conflict
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'

4. What period - and what did this result in?
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story

5. Assertion of personal experience and the individual author as source of art

6. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
Postmodernist literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernist literature

7. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

8. (Period and definition)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design

9. (Period and types)
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English

10. (Period and definition)
1500-1660
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit

11. Thomas Gray

12. 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

13. Dramatic monologue - stream of consciousness

14. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
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
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
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

15. Minimalism
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Cunning weapon

16. Hybridity
20th-Century Modern Period
1785-1830
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
1900-1945

17. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
American Romantic Period

18. What does the line 'the space between - is but an hour' mean?

19. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
1800-1900

20. Moral responsibility
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernist literature

21. Aim of postcolonial criticism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
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

22. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

23. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
20th-Century Modern Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

24. Edwin Arlington Robinson

25. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Victorian Period literature
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism

26. What period is marked by industrialization?
1960-present
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions

27. Similar to Enlightenment
Postmodernist literature
Characteristics: Male sexual conquest and vulnerability - Extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' - Downfall = premature ejaculation and impotence 'Trembling - confused - despaired - limber - dry - A wishing - weak - un
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

28. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period literature
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Victorian Period literature

29. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Serious - directive
A Victorian response to 20th century

30. Growth of literature associated with social protest/cultural nationalist movements
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature

31. Legacy of European colonialism
Transnational/Postcolonial
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Victorian Period

32. Modernist alienation from mainstream

33. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Romantic Period (Britain)

34. Transnational literature
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries

35. Subdivisions of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English

36. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Postmodernism

37. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'

38. Dates of Postmodernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
1960-present
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

39. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Fusing mind and nature
1785-1830
Modernist literature
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

40. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

41. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

42. Writes devotional poetry
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
American Romantic Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

43. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
Postmodernist literature
Modernism
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Victorian Period

44. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
Postmodernism
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Postmodernist literature
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions

45. Impact of WWI
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Kiowa tale
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions

46. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
450AD-1500

47. Emergence of distinctively American literature
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
Naturalism/Realist Period
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Early National Period/Early American Lit.

48. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

49. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)
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
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman

50. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Naturalism/Realist Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'