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Introduction To English Major

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1. European contact and loss of native cultures
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Realism/Realistic Period
Free verse

2. (Period and definition)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

3. Impact of Cold War and Baby Boom Era
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism
Modernist literature
Victorian Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment

4. Isolation and alienation from society
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - Radical and untraditional - very experimental
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Romantic Period (Britain)

5. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Victorian Period literature
Earnest - sincere
Modernist literature
Pressure toward cultural homogeneity - Discontent beneath surface = opening foray of resistance/counterculture - Postmodernism

6. Derek Walcott

7. Motivated by industrial reform
'The Lynching'
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Victorian Period
Modernism

8. Religious controversy and persecution
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
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

9. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes
Romantic Period (Britain)
Realism/Realistic Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

10. Transformation of personal and social identity through technological systems
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
Postmodernist literature
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

11. 'Relentless change'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Transnational/Postcolonial
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
20th-Century Modern Period

12. Repetition in Iroquois prayer-song
Creates intensity
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
Modernism
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy

13. What ideas did the end of the Commonwealth Period give birth to? What were the poetic responses?

14. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'

15. Thomas Hardy

16. Affluence and consumer culture
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Court culture - Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernism

17. Symbolic landscape

18. Not rejecting American history

19. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
Modernist literature
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
20th-Century Modern Period
American Romantic Period

20. Pagan authors = sources for thinking
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit
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 Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

21. Example of the country house poem

22. Literary goal = to explain and edify
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Romantic Period (Britain)

23. Process of Iroquois prayer-song
Structure of verb forms reflects change through language use
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
450AD-1500
Postmodernist literature

24. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
A body of literature written by authors with roots to countries that were once colonies established by European nations
Their sense of a poet as both creator and receiver of a poem
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

25. Product of mass migrations (after 1910)
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay - 'The Lynching'
Speaker needs strength due to illness

26. Assumptions of postcolonial/transnational literature

27. (Period and characteristics)
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
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
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).

28. Dates of the Neoclassical Period
'Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard' - Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
1660-1785
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
1607-1800

29. Example of American Indian - Pre-Contact Literature
Iroquois prayer-song
'Richard Cory' by Robinson
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet

30. 'The Author to Her Book' by Bradstreet

31. (Period and definiton)
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Imagination tempered by judgment
Fusing mind and nature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

32. Psychoanalytic focus
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic 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
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Modernist literature

33. (Period and characteristics)
Modernism - 'Art for art's sake'
Highly medieval interpretation of Trojan War - Assumes the historical truth of the story - Stresses the moral and exemplary force of the story
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Puritan Lit. of New England
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

34. John Keats 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

35. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
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
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
Iroquois prayer-song

36. Contrast between court culture and lingering Puritan culture
Restoration Period/Neoclassical 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
Interest in imagination
Postmodernist literature

37. Relations of colonizer and colonized
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'

38. Legacy of European colonialism
Victorian Period literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Transnational/Postcolonial

39. From Jamestown to the American Revolution
Realism/Realistic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it
Modernism

40. (Period and definition)
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
Realism/Realistic Period
American Romantic Period

41. Literary goal = to explain and edify
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Author = William Blake
Romantic Period (Britain)
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram

42. Sense of despair - crisis of faith
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair
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).
Victorian Period literature
Realism/Realistic Period

43. (Title and period)

44. About the exaltation of art

45. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Through the use of 'thy little -' etc.
Transnational/Postcolonial literature

46. Culmination of 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
'The Sun Rising' by John Donne - Metaphysical poem
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

47. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Postmodernist literature
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
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.

48. Impact of WWI
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Realism/Realistic Period
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art

49. Texts of the Harlem Renaissance

50. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Serious - directive
Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum)
Romantic Period (Britain)