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Introduction To English Major

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1. (Author and period)

2. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
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 for art's sake'
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)

3. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
20th-Century Modern Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

4. Political revolutions (Period and characteristics)

5. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Realism/Realistic Period

6. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
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 Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Transnational/Postcolonial

7. Postcolonial literature
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
Earnest - sincere
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period

8. (Period and characteristics)
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Often in form of an argument - Analytic approach - originality - wit - and intellectual tone - Use of colloquial language - Rough or irregular rhythmic patterns - Metaphysical conceit: elaborate - o
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age

9. (Period and characteristics)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Lynching' by McKay
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

10. Example of Literature of Contact
Kiowa tale
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Transnational/Postcolonial

11. Tomato soup can
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Postmodernist literature
American Romantic Period

12. Jonathan Swift

13. Example of Literature of Contact
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Often in form of an argument - Analytic approach - originality - wit - and intellectual tone - Use of colloquial language - Rough or irregular rhythmic patterns - Metaphysical conceit: elaborate - o
Realism/Realistic Period
Kiowa tale
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems

14. Influenced by Darwin
Naturalism/Realist Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use

15. Conscious efforts to innovate
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
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

16. What period - and what did this result in?
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Realism/Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
'Richard Cory' by Robinson

17. Religious controversy and persecution
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

18. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

19. Seriousness and sobriety
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernism
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester

20. Dates of Middle Ages/Medieval Period
450AD-1500
Harlem Renaissance
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

21. Oral tradition
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
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
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory

22. (Title and period)

23. William Blake Interest in imagination

24. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
Harlem Renaissance
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
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
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified

25. Writes devotional poetry
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Full of self-assertion and radical vision

26. Changes for women (right to vote - contraception - etc)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
20th-Century Modern Period
Modernist literature
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces

27. 'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson

28. Interest in the unconscious
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Victorian Period literature
Realism/Realistic Period

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

30. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use

31. Avoids sentimentalism
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Realism/Realistic Period
20th-Century Modern Period

32. Assertion of personal experience and the individual author as source of art

33. Aim of postcolonial criticism
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
1785-1830
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition

34. Discovery of Americas
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

35. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

36. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
1660-1785

37. Primary texts of Early Modern Period/Renaissance

38. Avant-garde
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Modernist literature
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America

39. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Modernism
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Postmodernist literature

40. Visionary - celebrates the imagination
Harlem Renaissance
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI

41. Rebellious movement
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Their 'ideals of moderation - decorum - and urbanity'
Modernism
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

42. Literary goal = to explain and edify
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Interest in imagination
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

43. American Renaissance
Victorian Period
20th-Century Modern Period
American Romantic Period
Kiowa tale

44. (Author and period)
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Romanticism 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
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device

45. What was literature's goal in the Augustan Age?
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
To explain and edify
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
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

46. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)
To explain and edify
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

47. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
Author = William Blake
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Romantic Period (Britain)

48. Psychoanalytic --> all about interiority

49. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Earnest - sincere
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
'A Description of Morning' - Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

50. Disintegration of British Empire
The loss of faith in modern age
Transnational/Postcolonial
Realistic Period
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people