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Introduction To English Major
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1. How are sentimentality and emotions portrayed in 'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau?
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
2. (Title and period)
Realistic Period
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
'Fowles in the Frith' - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
3. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
4. Thomas Gray
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
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
5. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Class conflict
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
6. Legacy of European colonialism
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
7. Natural world as endowed with feelings - pathos - passion - expression
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
8. Naturalistic Period
Kiowa tale
Realist Period
Postmodernism
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
9. Dramatic political changes
Romantic Period (Britain)
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
1785-1830
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
10. 'This poem has had up to here; this poem is the reader and the reader the poem'
'Beware: Do Not Read this Poem' by Reed Ex. of transformation of identity through technological systems
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
'The Lynching' by McKay
11. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
12. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
Modernism
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Realistic Period
13. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Postmodernist 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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
14. Dates of the Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
1785-1830
Postmodernist literature
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
15. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
16. Focus on technologies of stimulation
Postmodernist literature
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
17. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
Transnational/Postcolonial
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Realistic Period
18. William Blake Interest in imagination
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
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.'
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
19. Seriousness and sobriety
Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Reflects the continental traffic of new ideas - Old subject matter - new form - Shows off learning and the mind of the individual
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
20. Ambivalence
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
21. William Butler Yeats
Victorian Period literature
1607-1800
Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
22. Sentimentality and emerging ideology of the 'vanishing Indian'
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
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
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
23. (Period and definition)
Postmodernist literature
Postmodernist literature
Fusing mind and nature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
24. English colonization
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernist literature
Modernist literature
25. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
American Romantic Period
26. (Period and effect)
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
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.'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
27. (Period and characteristics)
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
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Victorian Period
28. Harlem Renaissance subverting of history
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Cunning weapon
'The Lynching' by McKay
20th-Century Modern Period
29. Pessimism and alienation in 'The Darkling Thrust'
A Victorian response to 20th century
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
30. Stabilizing of middle class and concern for morality
20th-Century Modern Period
At night - interior room - protected - at window; both window and beach as transitional/liminal spaces
Modernism
Victorian Period
31. Dates of Postmodernism
Imaginative writing - Specificity of colonial puritan woman's experience
'A Far Cry from Africa' - Transnational/Postcolonial
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
1960-present
32. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
33. Responds to crises of the period
Victorian Period literature
Postmodernist literature
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)
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
34. Types of literature from Colonial Period
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
1800-1900
Class conflict
35. Protestant Reformation
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Modernist literature
36. Period of immense emigration - constant expansion
Romantic Period (Britain)
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Victorian Period
37. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Postmodernist literature
38. Impact of the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
39. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
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
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
40. Protestant Reformation
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house 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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
41. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Creates intensity
20th-Century Modern Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
42. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
43. Problem/struggle of British Romantic literature's content?
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Iroquois prayer-song
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
44. Who is the author - what is the period - and what is this an example of?
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Victorian Period
Naturalism/Realist Period
Author = William Blake
45. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Modernist literature
46. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Realism/Realistic Period
Iroquois prayer-song
1785-1830
47. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
'The Lynching' by McKay
Author = William Blake
48. Langston Hughes
Postmodernism
Modernist literature
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
49. Romantic rejection of reason
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
'The Second Coming' by Yeats
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
50. Thomas Hardy
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Poetic form is neoclassical - End-stopped lines - even rhymes - Reason personified
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Romantic Period (Britain)
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