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Introduction To English Major

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1. Individualistic - skeptical of society
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

2. Rejects kinds of political and social oppression
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.'
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism

3. Relations of colonizer and colonized
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

4. Ishmael Reed (Title and period)

5. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory

6. Modernist alienation from mainstream

7. Emergence of distinctively American literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Postmodernist literature
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Early National Period/Early American Lit.

8. (Title and period)

9. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Romantic Period (Britain)

10. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
Victorian Period literature
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Free verse
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty

11. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Realist Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Modernist literature

12. Transnational
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
1500-1660

13. Poetry can arouse wonder by creating perspective of ignorance or innocence in the reader - the sense of novelty - freshness of sensation
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Romantic Period (Britain)
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

14. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Realism/Realistic Period
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England

15. Sense of loss or disillusionment
To explain and edify
Modernist literature
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

16. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
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
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason

17. Tone = very modern - omniscience

18. Dates of the Victorian Period
1660-1785
Romantic Period (Britain)
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
1830-1901

19. Rejects kinds of political and social oppression
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).
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
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

20. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram

21. Drive for learning and artistic expression
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
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries

22. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Interest in imagination
Romantic Period (Britain)

23. Moral responsibility
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
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

24. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Literally - a 'seize the day' poem - Emphasizes uncertainty of life and need to live in the present - Represents a scaling back of hopes and suspicion about future - Aftermath of all the chaos of Eng
Postmodernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem

25. Literature articulates history and history articulates literature
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
1500-1660

26. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story

27. Ambivalence
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem

28. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet

29. Exalted view of art
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature

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

31. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernist literature
Creates intensity

32. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?

33. Belief in reason (America)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

34. How does 'A Supermarket in California' reflect the post-war conditions of the US?

35. Culmination of Enlightenment
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Realistic Period
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason

36. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Modernist literature
Free verse

37. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Naturalism/Realist Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit

38. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance

39. What period - and what was it?
Speaker needs strength due to illness
Modernism
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans

40. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Earnest - sincere
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

41. Often abstract and non-representational
1607-1800
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernist literature
The loss of faith in modern age

42. 'Put a bullet in his head'
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Realist Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

43. (Period and characteristics)
Naturalism/Realist Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically

44. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
Modernist literature
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period

45. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature

46. Disintegration of British Empire
Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Modernist literature

47. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)

48. Earnest - didactic - sincere
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Lynching'
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period literature

49. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernist literature

50. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Postmodernist literature