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1. Exalted view of art
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Modernist literature
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period


2. (Period and types)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
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).
Postmodernist literature
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial


3. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Naturalism/Realist Period
Modernism
Postmodernist literature


4. Postcolonial literature
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
American Romantic Period
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial


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

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6. Example of the country house poem

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7. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Romantic Period (Britain)
Harlem Renaissance
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


8. Dates of American Romanticism/Realism and Naturalism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
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) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
1800-1900


9. Dramatic political changes
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self


10. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history


11. Legacy of European colonialism
Transnational/Postcolonial
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self


12. What period - and what did they imitate?

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13. Content of Iroquois prayer-song
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
1607-1800
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.


14. Dates of the Victorian Period
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
1830-1901
Helps characters survive
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)


15. William Blake Interest in imagination

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16. On the cusp of romanticism/realism
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period


17. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Romantic Period (Britain)
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period


18. Disintegration of British Empire
Realism/Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
1830-1901
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau


19. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernist literature
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Romantic Period (Britain)


20. Phillis Wheatley

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21. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Romantic Period (Britain)


22. (Period and definition)
Modernist literature
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people


23. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
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
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique


24. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
1500-1660
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'


25. Protest movements and counterculture
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
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
Realism/Realistic Period
Postmodernism


26. Claude McKay

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27. Celebration of common people

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28. Development of printing press
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem


29. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
Postmodernist literature
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Realistic Period


30. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
Romantic Period (Britain)
The loss of faith in modern age
Postmodernist literature
Modernism


31. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
20th-Century Modern Period


32. Earnest - didactic - sincere
Modernist literature
Victorian Period literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
American Romantic Period


33. (Title and period)

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34. American Renaissance
1607-1800
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
American Romantic Period


35. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
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
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Modernist literature
Victorian Period


36. 'Relentless change'
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
20th-Century Modern Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry


37. 'Put a bullet in his head'
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence


38. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Realism/Realistic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
450AD-1500


39. Thomas Hardy

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40. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Speaker needs strength due to illness
'The Lynching'
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernism


41. Sentimentality and emerging ideology of the 'vanishing Indian'

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42. Tone = very modern - omniscience

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43. Radically experimental and diverse
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature


44. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Realism/Realistic Period
Postmodernist literature


45. (Period and definition)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
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


46. Reformist bent
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period literature
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Class conflict


47. Psychoanalytic focus
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Modernist literature
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)


48. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread


49. Puritan world-view

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50. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Victorian Period
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)