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Introduction To English Major

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1. Growth of British Empire
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period
1. 'Fowles in the Frith' 2. 'Erthe Tok of Erthe' 3. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 4. Book of Margery Kempe 5. Troy Book by John Lydgate
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations

2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Victorian Period literature
Victorian Period
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

3. Religious controversy and persecution
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
A Victorian response to 20th century
Victorian Period

4. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

5. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Postmodernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Rejection of fact for secrets of nature - Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'

6. About the exaltation of art

7. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Site of affluence and consumer culture - Whitman as radical forebear: celebration of bohemia - Contrast of America then and now in the last stanza - 'What America did you have?'

8. Focus on technologies of stimulation
Postmodernist literature
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Postmodernist literature

9. 'The Disappointment' - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

10. Radical break with tradition
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Kiowa tale
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Importance of reason as an essential condition of mankind - Toll of universal truths led to new thinking about gov't: Individual rights and individual liberty - Jefferson and American Constitution - Paine an
Modernism

11. Rewriting and subverting a history of American prejudices and ideological scripts
Romantic Period (Britain)
Harlem Renaissance
Victorian Period literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

12. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
Victorian Period
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
'The Lynching'
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems

13. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Victorian Period literature
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Realistic Period
Naturalism/Realist Period

14. Interest in the unconscious
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period

15. Experimentation - wildly creative verse
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

16. Emergence of distinctively American literature
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

17. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Harlem Renaissance

18. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Free verse
Romantic Period (Britain) 'To see a world in a grain of sand - And a heaven in a wild flower - Hold infinity in the palm of your hand - And eternity in an hour.'
Modernist literature
Postmodernist literature

19. Style that stresses emotions - everyday language - individual expression/originality
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
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
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
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

20. Symbolic landscape

21. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)

22. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Iroquois prayer-song
To explain and edify
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)

23. the 'Poet of the American Revolution'

24. (Period and definition)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

25. (Period and definiton)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Victorian Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)

26. (Period and definition)
450AD-1500
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

27. Tomato soup can
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
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Modernist literature

28. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
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
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram

29. Conscious efforts to innovate
Postmodernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Site of affluence and consumer culture - Whitman as radical forebear: celebration of bohemia - Contrast of America then and now in the last stanza - 'What America did you have?'

30. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

31. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Harlem Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period

32. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
Cunning weapon

33. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Realism/Realistic Period

34. Example of the metaphysical poem

35. Embrace of cacophony and chaos
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Postmodernist literature
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Romantic Period (Britain)

36. Exalted view of art
To explain and edify
Cunning weapon
Modernist literature
Victorian Period

37. Moving from neoclassical to Romantic (America) - (Title and period)

38. Often abstract and non-representational
Modernist literature
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism

39. Human nature is essentially good
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)
Modernist literature
Victorian Period

40. Time of crisis - turmoil - and disillusionment for many writers
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Realistic Period
Realist Period
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification

41. Backlash against neoclassicism and its restraint and decorum
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram

42. Charles I executed and Puritan government comes into power
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
A Victorian response to 20th century
Realism/Realistic Period

43. Affluence and consumer culture
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Postmodernism
Realist Period

44. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Interest in imagination
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique

45. (Period and definition)
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
20th-Century Modern Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification

46. From the Civil War to World War II
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Realistic Period
Modernist literature

47. Beat Generation
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernism
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility

48. (Title and period)

49. Dates of Postmodernism
1960-present
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

50. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)