EURO20002 – Develop Analytical and Writing Skills – Arts Assignment Help

Assignment Task

Students are supposed to summarize and critically discuss a specified text from the course: Pericles Lewis, ‘Introduction’, The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism (2011): 1-9. Pericles Lewis. The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism. Introduction.pdf 1, The purpose of this assignment is to

• develop the understanding of literary texts,

• develop analytical and writing skills,

• be able to understand and explain a literary text with the help of secondary literature

• be able to critically relate a secondary literature article with a literary text,

• prepare for the use of secondary literature in the final essay. You will be marked on the following criteria: 

• Content: accurate understanding of the main features of European Modernism according to Pericles Lewis. The commentary should answer the question: how does Pericles Lewis define European Modernism? What is/are the difference(s) between Modernism and European Modernism?

• Critical awareness: what are the key features of European Modernism identified by Lewis? To which extend does it help to better understand the content of the course?

• Structure and language: Coherence of the critical commentary; elaborated and non-literal commentary of the text; standard academic English: richness of vocabulary, variety and precision of expression, good balance between arguments and examples.