Takehome Midterm Exam / E F316N/CL S315: Masterworks of Literature: World / Summer 2021 / Prof. Nehring
Instructions: Your essay should be 1000-1250 words in length. (With one-inch margins, thats about four to five pages.) Treat the essay as a sit-down exam, not a formal paper: gather your materials, give them some thought, and start writing. You should certainly proofread the result, but dont worry about extensive revision.
I would like to see 1) an introduction that includes brief definition of key ideas and/or issues and a thesis that expresses your coverage and argument, and 2) clearly defined paragraph topics in the body of the paper. If you introduce a new topic simply by announcing something along the lines of Now Im moving on to the next writer, you havent given the exam enough thought.
Please note that I expect you to supply evidence of readingto supply some citation, that is, of the works you discuss. At the same time, dont pad your essay with quotations, either. Four or five lines of verse or three or four sentences from prose in the course of a paragraph will be fine, provided they are relevant to your discussion. Those lines and/or sentences do not have to be continuousin fact, it would be better if your examples came from different places in a work.
A paper with little or no citation cannot receive a grade higher than a C.
The four movements in the arts we have (or will have) covered are listed below. Select one author from each of three different lists to write on: your exam should concern just three persons. Compare and contrast the three authors worksdiscuss similarities and differences between them, that is.
ROMANTICISM MODERNISM AVANT-GARDE POSTMODERNISM
Wordsworth Baudelaire Brecht Borges
Eliot Breton Calvino*
Woolf Huelsenbeck Garcia Marquez
Yeats Loy Gun
Marinetti
*I will include Calvino in discussing postmodernism if you want to read ahead; the excerpt in the anthology is less than six pages.
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