English, American, and Afro-Asian Literature Review
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This set of flashcards covers the major periods, authors, and works of English, American, Philippine, and Afro-Asian literature as well as African literature as presented in the lecture notes.
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Wyrd
The Anglo-Saxon belief in Fate.
Beowulf
The great epic or heroic poem of the Anglo-Saxon period.
Widsith
A fragment of the first Anglo-Saxon poetry along with Deor's Lament and The Seafarer.
Bede
The first historian who belonged to the Northumbrian school of writers.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The oldest historical record known to any European nation in its own tongue, revised and enlarged by Alfred.
Battle of Hastings
The conflict in 1066 that began the Norman conquest of Anglo-Saxon England.
Matter of Britain
Metrical romances having for their heroes Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The best of the metrical romances from the Anglo-Norman period.
Ancren Riwle
Considered the best piece of early English prose.
Arthurian legends
Native Celtic legends of Arthur contained in Geoffrey's History.
Geoffrey Chaucer
One of the greatest English writers whose work developed the Midland dialect into the national language.
Piers Plowman
The chief work of Langland, the poet and prophet of social reforms.
John Wyclif
The religious reformer who first translated the gospels into English.
Mandeville's Travels
A famous book which romances about the wonders to be seen abroad.
Confessio Amantis
The chief English work of Gower consisting of a long poem containing one hundred and twelve tales.
Humanism
A term signifying the intellectual progress and study of the classics during the Revival of Learning.
Praise of Folly
An influential literary work written by Erasmus during the Revival of Learning.
Utopia
An influential literary work written by Thomas More.
Morte d'Arthur
A collection of the Arthurian legends in English prose by Malory.
Ralph Royster Doyster
The first play produced in the English language.
Gammer Gurton's Needle
The first true English comedy.
Gorboduc
The first true English tragedy.
Christopher Marlowe
The greatest of Shakespeare's predecessors and author of Faustus.
Edmund Spenser
The center of the non-dramatic poets whose most famous work is The Faery Queen.
Ben Jonson
The greatest of Shakespeare's successors and author of Every Man in His Humour.
John Milton
The greatest literary figure of the Puritan period and author of Paradise Lost.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The chief work of the Puritan writer John Bunyan.
Metaphysical Poets
A group of poets including Donne and Herbert.
Cavalier Poets
A group of poets including Herrick, Carew, Lovelace, and Suckling.
John Dryden
The greatest writer of the Restoration who established the heroic couplet as the prevailing verse form.
Hudibras
Butler's work which best exemplifies the popular ridicule of Puritanism in burlesque.
Bill of Rights
The 1689 document that was the third and final step in the establishment of constitutional government.
Alexander Pope
The greatest poet of the Augustan or Classic Age who typified polished, formal poetry.
Samuel Johnson
The dictator of English letters for nearly half a century during the eighteenth century.
James Boswell
The author who wrote the immortal Life of Johnson.
Edward Gibbon
The historian famous for the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Robert Burns
The greatest of Scottish poets.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Thomas Percy's collection of old ballads.
Daniel Defoe
The author of Robinson Crusoe and a pioneer of the first English novels.
Age of Revolution
A name for the Age of Romanticism caused by political and economic agitation at home and abroad.
Reform Bill of 1832
The legislation that resulted in the final triumph of democracy in England.
Lyrical Ballads
The 1798 work by Wordsworth and Coleridge that is foundational to Romanticism.
Sir Walter Scott
The author responsible for the creation of the historical novel.
Evolution
The principle of growth or development from simple to complex forms established in the Victorian Age.
Captain Smith
The first American author known for A true Relation of Such Occurences and Accidents of Noate as Hath in Virginia.
The Day of Doom
Michael Wigglesworth's poem describing the time of judgement.
Poor Richard's Almanac
Benjamin Franklin's publication that helped in the formation of budding American identity.
Common Sense
The political work by Thomas Paine that influenced the tone of the American Revolution.
The Power of Sympathy
W. H. Brown's book depicting a tragic love story between siblings.
Diedrich Knickerbocker
The pen name used by Washington Irving for A History of New York.
Transcendentalism
The movement formed by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Walden
Henry David Thoreau's work that urged resistance to the meddlesome dictates of organized society.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's work discussed as a slave's narrative autobiography.
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman's magnum opus depicting the all-inclusiveness of American democracy.
Because I Could not Stop for Death
A psychologically penetrating poem written by Emily Dickinson.
Mark Twain
The pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton's novel that scrutinized upper-class, Eastern-seaboard society.
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane's work depicting life and battle.
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair's novel that advocated socialism.
Lost Generation
The group of writers to which Gertrude Stein belonged.
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel about the youth's golden dreams dissolving in failure.
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck's novel about the Joads' journey from Oklahoma to California.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's novel that depicted realistic modernists and romantic beatniks.
On the Road
Jack Kerouac's chronicle of a soul-searching travel through the continent.
Rabbit Run
John Updike's work discussing taboo topics such as adultery.
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison's story of a black Underground Man experiencing racial tension.
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison's novel exploring conventions of beauty and incestuous rape.
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon's work showing the salient movement of postmodernism.
The Woman Warrior
The fictioned memoir written by Maxine Hong Kingston.
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan's novel tracing the lines of four immigrant families united by Mahjong.
Doctrina Christiana
The first book printed in the Philippines in 1593.
Tomas Pinpin
The author who printed Librong Pagaaralan nang mga Tagalog nang Uicang Castilla in 1610.
La Esperanza
The first daily newspaper published in the Philippines in 1846.
Ilustrado
The educated class in the Philippines meaning well-informed.
N7nay
The first novel written by a Filipino, Pedro Alejandro Paterno.
Noli Me Tangere
The famous novel in Spanish by Philippine national hero Jos7 Rizal.
La Solidaridad
The publication of the propaganda movement fondly called La Sol.
Ladino Poems
Works by the first Tagalog versifiers who were literate in Spanish and the vernacular.
Corridos
Widely read metrical romances during the Spanish period used for entertainment and edification.
Awit
Fabrications of the writer's imagination rendered in dodecasyllabic quatrains.
Panunuluyan
The Tagalog version of the Mexican Las Posadas dramatizing Mary and Joseph's search for an inn.
Cenaculo
The dramatization of the passion and death of Jesus Christ.
Moriones
Participants dressed as Roman soldiers wearing colorful wooden masks.
Karagatan
A legendary practice testing young men vying for a maiden's hand by retrieving a ring from the sea.
Duplo
A forerunner of the balagtasan involving teams like Dupleras and Dupleros.
Comedia
A play about courtly love between a prince and princess of different religions.
Edad de Oro del Castellano
The name for the period of Spanish literary production in the Philippines between 1898 and the 1940s.
Vedas
A set of Aryan hymns that formed the cornerstone of Hindu culture.
Sanskrit
A sacred language meaning perfect speech considered to be spoken by gods and goddesses.
Purusarthas
The four ends of man in Hinduism: dharma, artha, karma, and moksha.
Nirvana
The state of enlightenment or self-awareness in Buddhism.
Dhammapada
The Way of Truth; an anthology of basic Buddhist teaching in aphoristic style.
Mahabharata
A major Indian epic telling the struggle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas.
Bhagavad Gita
The Blessed Lord's Song; one of the greatest Hindu scriptures.
Panchatantra
A collection of Indian beast fables originally written in Sanskrit.
Kalidasa
A Sanskrit poet and dramatist considered the greatest Indian writer of all time.
Genji Monogatari
Murasaki Shikibu's masterpiece and an early work of fiction in the form of a novel.
Oku no Hosomichi
The travel diary written by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō.
I Novel
A colloquial literary style that describes the authors themselves and their mental states.
Jen
A Confucian tenet meaning human heartedness; also known as ren.