Introduction To English Major

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1. Ishmael Reed (Title and period)

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2. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Postmodernism
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance


3. Motivated by industrial reform
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Victorian Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature


4. (Period and characteristics)
1800-1900
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically


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

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6. Postcolonial literature
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period


7. In the Kiowa tale - strategic use of language...
Helps characters survive
Postmodernist literature
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
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


8. Puritan world-view

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9. What is the setting of 'Dover Beach'?
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Ideas: Religious toleration - Separation of church and state - Freedom of press censorship - Popular sovereignty - Poetic responses: 'To His Coy Mistress' by Marvell (carpe diem) - 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont' by Milton (politicized sonnet)
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces


10. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

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11. (Period and characteristics)
1607-1800
Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically


12. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
1785-1830
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
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Victorian Period


13. Awareness of horrors of empire and industrialism
Victorian Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness


14. (Title and period)

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15. Legacy of European colonialism
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period


16. Example of the metaphysical poem

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17. Christianized Germanic culture
Romantic Period (Britain)
Interest in imagination
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Middle Ages/Medieval Period


18. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period
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


19. Similar to Enlightenment
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period literature
Transnational/Postcolonial


20. Aim of postcolonial criticism
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
20th-Century Modern Period
A Victorian response to 20th century
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason


21. Beat Generation
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
Postmodernism
Cunning weapon


22. Primary texts of Early Modern Period/Renaissance

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23. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
20th-Century Modern Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet


24. Claude McKay

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25. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Postmodernism
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
1830-1901
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period


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

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27. What was literature's goal in the Augustan Age?
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
To explain and edify


28. Ordinary language - plain diction

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29. Often abstract and non-representational
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
Modernist literature
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
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art


30. (Title and period)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
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
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material


31. Aim of postcolonial criticism
Postmodernism
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition


32. Dramatic political changes
'The Lynching'
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self


33. Tomato soup can
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romanticism 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
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images


34. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason


35. (Period and types)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Postmodernist literature
Realism/Realistic Period


36. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment

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37. What is the retreat of the tide in 'Dover Beach' a metaphor for?
The loss of faith in modern age
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' - Derives whole point from mass media influence
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Victorian Period


38. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Harlem Renaissance
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Earnest - sincere
To explain and edify


39. (Period and effect)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period


40. Nation-states with strong monarchs develop
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
Emily Dickinson - American 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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press


41. Emergence of distinctively American literature
Victorian Period
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Early National Period/Early American Lit.


42. Writes devotional poetry
Realist Period
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive


43. What period - and what did they imitate?

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44. Primary texts of Early Modern Period/Renaissance

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

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46. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
Victorian Period
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Author = William Blake
1800-1900


47. Tone = very modern - omniscience

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48. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
The loss of faith in modern age


49. What period - and what did this result in?
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
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
A Victorian response to 20th century


50. What period - and what did this result in?
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America