Compare and contrast the three authors’ works—discuss similarities and differences between them.

THE ASSIGNMENT:

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’ works—discuss similarities and differences between them.

ROMANTICISM MODERNISM AVANT-GARDE POSTMODERNISM

Wordsworth Baudelaire Brecht Borges
Eliot Breton Calvino*
Woolf Huelsenbeck Garcia Marquez
Yeats Loy Gun
Marinetti

will include Calvino in discussing postmodernism if you want to read ahead; the excerpt in the anthology is less than six pages.