Renaissance
Women Online Report
- Go to Siena library website
[Siena.edu/library]
- Go to Women Writers Project and then
to Renaissance Women Online [see site index]. Note that the college has a license, so you
must use a computer on-campus, attached to the college server, or go
through the proxy.
- Choose one work you have never heard
of--sign up for that work. [Check
to be certain contextual material is on-line for that work.]
- Sign up for a day to give your
report.
- Read contextual materials and the
work itself. (Skim the work if it
is very long.)
- Check for your author Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography on line in both name and full-text
searches.
- Check for other information on your
author in The Feminist Companion to
Literature in English ( REFERENCE PR111 .B55
1990) and on the web
- Prepare a one-page handout on the
writer and her work. Make 28 copies
for the class.
- Give a five-minute report to the
class, telling about the writer and her work. Include a brief excerpt to be
demonstrated on-line. Who was
she? What did she write? When?
Why did she write it? Did
she write anything else? What are
the major themes of the work?
- Emphasize questions of spirituality
and sexuality. Look for comparisons
and contrasts with works we are reading for class. How did they construct
their idea of the self? How do
spirituality and/or sexuality help to form that sense of selfhood? How do the two areas of spirituality and
sexuality intersect, complement each other, or come into conflict?
- Save all RWO handouts in your course
folder to serve as a basis for future work and to study for exams.