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Introduction To English Major

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1. Experimentation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Realism/Realistic Period
Free verse

2. Emphasis on individual
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
1830-1901
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory

3. 'The Disappointment' - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

4. Example of the carpe diem poem

5. Responds to crises of the period
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically
Victorian Period literature

6. Motivated by industrial reform
Victorian Period
A glimpse into future bleakness of 20th century - 'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy
'Richard Cory' - Realistic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.

7. (Title and period)
Helps characters survive
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period

8. Associated with prudishness/repression
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Victorian Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press

9. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
Transnational/Postcolonial
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
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
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

10. (Title and period)

11. (Title and period)

12. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

13. Affluence and consumer culture
Naturalism/Realist Period
Postmodernism
Puritan culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period - Earl of Rochester
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

14. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

15. Earnest - didactic - sincere
Cunning weapon
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
Victorian Period literature
Realism/Realistic Period

16. Freud and psychoanalysis
Victorian Period literature
Modernism
Naturalism/Realist Period
20th-Century Modern Period

17. Beat Generation
Realistic Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Harlem Renaissance
Postmodernism

18. Human nature is essentially good
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Postmodernism
Romantic Period (Britain)

19. Twist at the end of 'The Darkling Thrust' =
There is hope (not confident about this)
Modernism
Earnest - sincere
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

20. Satire becomes popular
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism

21. Ambivalence
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Romantic Period (Britain)

22. What do both 'The Disappointment' and 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' show?

23. Tone = very modern - omniscience

24. Often abstract and non-representational
Romantic Period (Britain)
'On Being Brought from Africa to America' - Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature

25. What was literature's goal in the Augustan Age?
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
To explain and edify
Transnational/Postcolonial

26. (Period and definition)
(Characteristics)- Feminist response to the male 'imperfect enjoyment' genre - Narrated from female perspective - Cloris' reaction to Lysander's pursuit and impotence
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people

27. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
The loss of faith in modern age
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
1830-1901
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

28. Development of printing press
Philip Freneau - Early National Period/Early American Lit. Direct address to flower - Untouched by humans - protected by nature - But destined to die ('I grieve to see your future doom') - Life is as fleeting as a flower ('the space between - is but
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Naturalism/Realist Period

29. How did content and form change during the Romantic Period?
1660-1785
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
Romantic Period (Britain)

30. Harlem Renaissance features of 'The Weary Blues'
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Modernism
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

31. American Renaissance
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
American Romantic Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

32. Isolation and alienation from society
Romantic Period (Britain)
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
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
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

33. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
Romantic Period (Britain)
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Modernism
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language

34. Theme of 'Richard Cory'
Class conflict
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

35. Impact of WWI
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

36. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
Realist Period
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification

37. Self-referentiality (Period and definition)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Serious - directive
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Realist Period

38. Aim of postcolonial criticism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Romantic Period (Britain)

39. (Title and period)

40. Uses ordinary language
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Realism/Realistic Period

41. Types of literature from Colonial Period
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
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
20th-Century Modern Period
1660-1785

42. Legacy of European colonialism
Transnational/Postcolonial
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Victorian Period

43. Emphasis on spontaneity rather than convention or formalism
Victorian Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art

44. Focuses on ordinary people in ordinary circumstances
Realism/Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism

45. Growth of public education and literacy
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).
20th-Century Modern Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

46. Example of the metaphysical poem

47. Each person is innately divine
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Transnational/Postcolonial
Realism/Realistic Period
Victorian Period

48. (Period and characteristics)
Victorian Period literature
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
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
Romantic Period (Britain)

49. What is the conclusion of 'Dover Beach'?

50. Hybridity
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
Content/subject matter: Ordinary people- Individual mind of writer - Gothic terrors or supernatural events - Passion - striving - desire - Form: poetry delivered in new styles
1500-1660
Transnational/Postcolonial literature