Introduction To English Major

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1. Oral tradition
Kiowa tale
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Romantic Period (Britain)
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory


2. 'Guinea Women'(Period and characteristics)
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
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period


3. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
Postmodernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period
Harlem Renaissance
Victorian Period


4. Similarities between 'The Indian Burying Ground' and 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
Romantic Period (Britain)


5. Interest in nature
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Modernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)


6. Rejection of Victorian ideals of organic wholeness and progress
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
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'


7. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Transnational/Postcolonial
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence


8. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Romantic Period (Britain)
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines
Realistic Period


9. Focus on the fight for survival in a world of urban decay
Victorian Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Naturalism/Realist Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram


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

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11. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
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?'
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
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment


12. Thomas Gray

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13. Discipline - economy - restraint
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period


14. (Period and definition)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people


15. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
'The Lynching' by McKay


16. (Title and period)

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17. Some revive medieval ideas - some stress freedom from all constraints - some support escapist fancy
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


18. What period is marked by industrialization?
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Naturalism/Realist Period
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art


19. Decolonization throughout 20th century
American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Romantic Period (Britain)


20. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
Victorian Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Realist Period
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem


21. American Romanticism's emphasis on (4): _____ > _____
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period


22. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique


23. Nation-states with strong monarchs develop
Realistic Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press


24. Subdivisions of early American literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Victorian Period


25. Dramatic political changes
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Postmodernist literature
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self


26. Naturalistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Realist Period
Realistic Period


27. Nation-states with strong monarchs develop
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism


28. Puritan world-view

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29. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

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30. Impact of WWII on postmodernism
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period


31. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Victorian Period literature
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism


32. What type of interpretation is Troy Book? Why?
Romantic Period (Britain)
Modernist literature
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Modernist literature


33. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
American Romantic Period


34. (Period and aftermath)
American Romantic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot


35. Protestant Reformation
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Victorian Period
Postmodernist literature


36. What is this an example of? And name the piece

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37. Similar to Enlightenment
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)


38. Return to classics
American Romantic Period
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Modernist literature
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason


39. Human nature is essentially good
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Second Coming' by Yeats


40. Development of printing press
20th-Century Modern Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Victorian Period


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

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42. Imaginative vision in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Modernism
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Fusing mind and nature


43. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
There is hope (not confident about this)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period


44. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Earnest - sincere
Helps characters survive
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


45. What ideas did the end of the Commonwealth Period give birth to? What were the poetic responses?

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46. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)

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47. 'A Far Cry from Africa' (Period and characteristics)

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

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49. Result of historical context of the Victorian Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Mutually influencing - Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair


50. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
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)