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Introduction To English Major

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1. Beat Generation
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernism
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans

2. Isolation and alienation from society
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Naturalism/Realist Period

3. Modernist features of 'The Weary Blues'
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
Experimental form - Alienation of artist/bluesman - Privileging of art
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive

4. Dates of Modernism
Iroquois prayer-song
1900-1945
Victorian Period literature
Realism/Realistic Period

5. (Author and period)

6. (Period and definition)
Victorian Period - Belief that social institutions can be measured according to greatest happiness for most people
Romantic Period (Britain)
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Makes books cheaper and more available - English Civil Wars
1900-1945

7. What period - and what did this result in?
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Creates intensity
'The Wild Honey Suckle' by Freneau - That life is as fleeting as a flower

8. What was the unifying theme of Romantic literature in Britain?
Interest in imagination
Skepticism about ideas of progress and civilization - Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
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'

9. Values subjective experience - innovation - individualism
Romantic Period (Britain)
Troy Book by John Lydgate - Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period

10. (Period and types)
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Early modern sonnet - Country-house poem - Metaphysical poem - Carpe diem poem - Politicized sonnet
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

11. Drive for learning and artistic expression
Britain lost the empire --> decolonization - Beginning of US dominance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1660-1785
Postmodernist literature

12. Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Modernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Acquisition of knowledge - detachment and disinterestedness - refinement of empathy - enlarging perspective - 'The age of virtue'
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Realistic Period

13. Decolonization throughout 20th century
Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period
'The Lynching' by McKay
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images

14. Each person is innately divine
Iroquois prayer-song
Transcendentalism - American Romantic Period - Walt Whitman
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period

15. Religious controversy and persecution
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Emotion > intellect - Individual > society - Imagination > logic - Wild and natural > tame and civilized - Transcendentalism

16. Influenced by Darwin
Modernism
Naturalism/Realist Period
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Romantic Period (Britain)

17. Collapse of distinctions between elite culture and popular culture
20th-Century Modern Period
Keats - 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Postmodernist literature

18. Focus on feelings and moments of heightened awareness
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
Realism/Realistic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Romantic Period (Britain)

19. (Period and definition)

20. Expresses concern about the state of English culture

21. Example of early modern sonnet
'A Supermarket in California' - Postmodernism
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Early modern sonnet
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Romantic Period (Britain)

22. What is the tone of 'Dover Beach'?
Kiowa tale
Harlem Renaissance
Serious - directive
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

23. Personal experience > learned knowledge
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - 'Here begins a short treatise and a comforting one for sinful wretches...'
Realism/Realistic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
'I - Too - Sing America' by Langston Hughes

24. Example of the carpe diem poem

25. (Period and definition)
Earnest - sincere
Old English/Anglo-Saxon - Anglo-Norman - Middle English
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design
'The Lynching' by McKay

26. Monarchy and episcopacy restored
20th-Century Modern Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Kiowa tale

27. Religious/devotional mixed with secular
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Modernist literature
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Postmodernist literature

28. 'A Description of Morning' (Characteristics)
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason
1. American Indian - pre-contact literature 2. Literature of contact 3. Puritan literature of New England
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A questioning of traditional beliefs and institutions - Imitation of Roman Augustans
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem poem

29. Rejection of 18th-century emphasis on neoclassical - reason - constraint - order - etc.
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Modernism
Romantic Period (Britain)
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition

30. Matthew Arnold 'Dover Beach'
Realism/Realistic Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' - Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period
Very vivid - slightly irreverent - Clearly using reason and judgment - Balanced and measured and constrained lines - Reliance on analytic reason

31. Includes a lot of repressed stuff

32. (Author and period)

33. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
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
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Naturalism/Realist Period
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period

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

35. Focus on technologies of stimulation
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature
Realistic Period
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

36. Exalted view of art
Transnational/Postcolonial
Walt Whitman's 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Transnational/Postcolonial
Modernist literature

37. (Period and definition)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Loss of enchantment from Enlightenment
'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' - American Romantic Period
Example of an extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' (premature ejaculation/impotence)
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Literature is circulated orally

38. Emergence of distinctively American literature
Transnational/Postcolonial
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Early National Period/Early American Lit.

39. Culture preserved through oral means rather than written
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Postmodernist literature

40. Supernatural is special way to arouse wonder by violating logic or reason; folklore - superstition - demons create for reader the occult and unknown
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Romantic Period (Britain)
Transnational/Postcolonial - Characteristics: Themes of hybridity (Africa and England) - Ambivalence - 'Where shall I turn - divided to the vein?' - Tug-of-war of identities = should I look back to Europe or Africa for my legacy? - Question of moral

41. (Period and definition)

42. Allen Ginsberg (Title and period)

43. Beat Generation
Postmodernist literature
Earnest - sincere
Postmodernism
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy

44. Rejection of form and order - Emphasis on uncertainty and play
Romantic Period (Britain)
Postmodernist literature
Philip Freneau - 'The Wild Honey Suckle'
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - A popular literary genre of the age - Terse - pointed - witty statement in verse or prose - Wit

45. Applied Darwin's ideas to society
Creates intensity
The Canterbury Tales - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Mingles religious with secular material
Naturalism/Realist Period
'The Second Coming' by Yeats

46. Questioning of traditional religion
Modernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)
20th-Century Modern Period
Language use as a form of survival - Power of words becomes a theme when so much depends on it

47. Innovation in 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period - Resulted in a lot of darkness in poetry
Victorian Period literature
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
'The Lynching'

48. Not rejecting American history

49. Aim of postcolonial criticism
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
To question how the colonized has been represented in the English literary tradition
Postmodernist literature
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

50. (Title and period)