You will do one 10-12 presentation in Spanish that is worth 10% of your final grade. These are the possible topics for your presentations. There are two types—summaries of book chapters or articles, and overviews of the works and importance of artists and authors. All book chapters and articles are on reserve at the library.
You need to: 1) Choose an article or author and 2) speak to me as soon as you have done so to reserve a day to present. The day you will present will be one of the days listed above the list of topics. For example, if you decide to present the first article listed, by Ahlgren, then your presentation day would be a class day between September 23 and October 11. This ensures that the material you present comes from the same time period we are covering in class.
When you go to the library to request an item, look for the BOOK title. The book title is the title that is underlined. If more than one article is listed in a single entry, then the presentation should cover all articles (they are short). The last numbers in the entries are the pages of the articles.
If you choose to do an article or chapter summary, your job is to condense and edit the information to make the most important points understandable to your classmates.
If you choose to talk about an author or artist, you should focus on the content of her/his most important works and their importance in the history of Spanish art or literature. You can give a BRIEF biography, especially if related to important works. You can find your own sources of information, but note that reading text written by someone else (such as something you have printed from the Internet or copied from a book) and presenting it as your own is plagiarism, and will incur a grade of zero and a report filed with Judicial Affairs.
See related document for grading criteria.
Presentation topics for September 23-October 11
articles for summary:
Ahlgren, Gillian T. W. “Women and
the Pursuit of Holiness in Sixteenth-Century Spain.” Teresa of
Ávila and the Politics of Sanctity. Ithaca: Cornell, 1996.
6-31.
Cruz, Anne J. “Juana and Her Sisters: Female Sexuality and Spirituality in Early Modern Spain and the New World.” Recovering Spain’s Feminist Tradition. Ed. Lisa Vollendorf. New York: MLA, 2001. 88-102.
Maclean, Ian. “Introduction” and “Theology, Mystical and Occult Writings.” The Renaissance Notion of Woman. New York: Cambridge, 1980. 1-27.
Vollendorf, Lisa. “’No Doubt It Will Amaze You:’ María de Zayas’s Early Modern Feminism.” Recovering Spain’s Feminist Tradition. Ed. Vollendorf. New York: MLA, 2001. 103-120.
Works and importance of:
Sta. Teresa de Ávila (mystic and
poet)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (dramatist)
Lope de Vega (dramatist)
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (essayist--defense
of indigenous of America)
San Juan de la Cruz (mystic and poet)
Luis de Góngora (poet)
Francisco Quevedo (poet and novelist)
See me if you would like to present:
the conquest of México
the conquest of Peru
Presentation topics for October 21-November 8
articles for summary:
Bieder, Maryellen. “Carmen de Burgos:
Modern Spanish Woman.” Recovering Spain’s Feminist Tradition.
Ed. Lisa Vollendorf. New York: MLA, 2001. 241-259.
Charnon-Deutsch, Lou. “Concepción Arenal and the Ninetheenth-Century Debates about Women’s Sphere and Education.” Recovering Spain’s Feminist Tradition. Ed. Lisa Vollendorf. New York: MLA, 2001. 198-216.
Davies, Catherine. “Rosalía de Castro: Cultural Isolation in a Colonial Context.” Recovering Spain’s Feminist Tradition. Ed. Lisa Vollendorf. New York: MLA, 2001. 176-97.
Tolliver, Joyce. “’My Distinguished Friend and Colleague Tula’: Emilia Pardo Bazán and Literary-Feminist Politics.” Recovering Spain’s Feminist Tradition. Ed. Lisa Vollendorf. New York: MLA, 2001. 217-40.
Works and importance of:
Joan Miró (early 20th-century Catalan
painter)
Francisco Goya (18th-century painter)
Antoni Gaudí (arquitect)
Federico García Lorca (20th-century
poet)
Antonio Machado (poet of la Generación
del ’98)
Miguel de Unamuno (novelist of la Generación
del ’98)
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (late
19th-century novelist)
Ramón del Valle-Inclán (late
19th-century dramatist)
José Ortega y Gasset (essayist
of la Generación del ’98)
Presentation topics November 15 - December 9
articles or chapters for summary:
Graham, Helen. “Women and Social Change.” Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction. Ed. Graham and Jo Labanyi. New York: Oxford, 1995. 99-116.
chapter on “The Cultural Politics of the Civil War” (2 short articles) in Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction. Ed. Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi. New York: Oxford, 1995. 152-66.
chapter on “Gender and Sexuality” (3 articles on women, the family and homosexuality) in Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction. Ed. Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi. New York: Oxford, 1995. 381-94.
Graham, Helen. “Gender and the State: Women in the 1940s.” Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction. Ed. Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi. New York: Oxford, 1995. 192-95.
chapter on “Cultural Control” (articles on education, the press, sports and censorship) in Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction. Ed. Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi. New York: Oxford, 1995. 196-214.
Evans, Peter W. “Culture and Cinema, 1975-1996.” The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture. Ed. David T. Gies. New York: Cambridge, 1999. 267-277. NOTE: This article is short, so you will need to bring video examples of film—see me for ideas.
Vilarós, Tersa M. “A Cultural Mapping of Catalonia.” The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture. Ed. David T. Gies. New York: Cambridge, 1999. 37-53.
Silver, Philip W. “The Basque Country.” The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture. Ed. David T. Gies. New York: Cambridge, 1999. 54-66.
Ross, Christopher J. “The Spanish State.” Contemporary Spain: A Handbook. New York: Arnold, 1997. 16-45.
chapters on “Education” and “Social Welfare”
in Ross, Christopher J. “The Spanish State.” Contemporary
Spain: A Handbook. New York: Arnold, 1997. 177-214.