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Introduction To English Major

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1. Emphasis on instinct and feelings
Earnest - sincere
There is hope (not confident about this)
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

2. Similar to Enlightenment
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Speaker needs strength due to illness

3. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period literature
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

4. Often compared to Thomas Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'

5. Tone = very modern - omniscience

6. Growth of British Empire
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Victorian Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries

7. Christianized Germanic culture
Helps characters survive
Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

8. Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Period and characteristics)
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
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
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem

9. Conscious efforts to innovate
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story
Postmodernist literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

10. How is Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' a romantic poem?
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Full of self-assertion and radical vision
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism

11. Jonathan Swift

12. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of lyric poetry
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

13. Return to classics
Transnational/Postcolonial
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
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

14. Form of Iroquois prayer-song
Speaker gains strength due to performance of the language
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
The working of misogyny - Woman = supreme object of desire AND most loathed object because she is the obstacle to masculine power and mastery - The same style - reveal 'urbanity - wit - licentiousness'

15. Often compared to Thomas Gray's 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'

16. Subdivisions of Neoclassical Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
1660-1785

17. Tomato soup can
Postmodernist literature
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images

18. (Period and characteristics)
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: 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
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
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

19. Alexander Pope - Jonathon Swift - Joseph Addison - Daniel Defoe
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism

20. Example of early modern sonnet
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Postmodernism - Art = zone of play - not a source of knowledge or certainty
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

21. Sentimentality and emerging ideology of the 'vanishing Indian'

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

23. Theme of the Kiowa tale
Modernist literature
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Victorian Period

25. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
20th-Century Modern Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age

26. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Victorian Period literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

27. Belief in reason (America)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Modernism
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
Romantic Period (Britain)

28. (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1960-present

29. Types of literature from Colonial Period
American Romantic Period
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Romantic Period (Britain)
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem

30. Example of the metaphysical poem

31. Which period's literature stresses the importance of psychology and interiority (moods - visions - reflections - meditations)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
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

32. Culmination of Enlightenment
1607-1800
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
20th-Century Modern Period

33. Impact of WWII
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance

34. Transnational literature
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'

35. Reconstruction - rapid urbanization - industrialization
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
Realistic Period
Literature does not transcend history - Literature does not stand in history's foreground - Literature does not reflect history
20th-Century Modern Period

36. Drive for learning and artistic expression
20th-Century Modern Period
Harlem Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

37. Point of view of 'Richard Cory'

38. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Romantic Period (Britain)
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
'The Lynching' by McKay

39. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Myth - legend - performed communally - reliance on repetition and formulae - entertainment and shared memory
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period

40. (Title - period and definition of quyting)
Modernist literature
American Romantic Period
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
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story

41. Postcolonial literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Modernism
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations

42. (Title and period)
Helps characters survive
Victorian Period
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Victorian Period

43. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
Postmodernist literature
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
Modernist literature
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America

44. Transnational
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
A Victorian response to 20th century
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Quyting: rebuttal or payback - Fictitious pilgrimage used as framing device for story

45. Rejection of Victorian middle-class morality
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Modernism
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
Writing that crosses national and cultural boundaries

46. Emotions = natural and good - more important than reason
'The Lynching' by McKay
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
Romantic Period (Britain)

47. Rejects kinds of political and social oppression
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Politicized sonnet
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Manuscript culture
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

48. Discipline - economy - restraint
Transnational/Postcolonial
Restoration Period - Augustan Age - Age of Sensibility
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair

49. Dates of early American literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
1607-1800
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period

50. Reverence for childhood and the primitive
Romantic Period (Britain)
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Modernism