Oral Presentation Schedule,
Winter 2008
| Week | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
There are 25 potential presentation slots spread over 13 presentation days. Please note that no more than TWO students should sign up to present on a given presentation day. Before signing up for a research presentation topic, follow the link to familiarize yourself with the Oral Presentation Guidelines.
All students should meet with me to discuss possible angles and report any problems they are having with research assignments ASAP and by the end of week 3 at the latest! Failure to do so will cause an "F" to be averaged into the Research Report component of your final course grade.
NOTES: 1) Senior Project students have first pick of presentation topics. 2) Two students may sign up to present the same reading on days where only one primary reading is scheduled. In these cases, the two students should coordinate with one another AND Dr. Schwartz to ensure they focus on different aspects of the work. On days on which more than one reading is assigned, each student should present a different reading. 3) Unless you have discussed the matter with me and obtained prior approval, you may not sign up to present a work on which you have previously completed a research project (e.g. for another class). 4) Students with prior experience using the research tools are encouraged to sign up for topics which fall early in the quarter!
| Topic and Readings | |
| Day 2 | The
Once and Future King 515-639 (The Candle in the Wind).
PRESENTATIONS (up to two) on The Once and Future King.
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| Topic and Readings | |
| Day 1 | Adaptations/Continuations of T. H. White:
1) Lerner and Loewe's musical Camelot;
2) Disney's animated The
Sword in the Stone; 3) T. H. White's own The Book of Merlyn
(posthumously published conclusion to The Once and Future King).
PRESENTATIONS (up to two):
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| Day 2 | John Steinbeck, The
Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (=AKA); Introduction
to the Victorian Arthur / Tennyson's
The
Idylls of the King (=Idylls)
PRESENTATIONS (up to two):
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| Topic and Readings | |
| Day 1 | Tennyson's
Lancelot, Guinevere and Elaine
Readings: "Lancelot and Elaine" (Idylls 168-205); "The Last Tournament" (Idylls 248-68); "Guinevere" (Idylls 269-87). PRESENTATIONS (up to two; 2nd topic OPEN):
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| Day 2 | Victorian Sensibilities: Other Visions of Guenevere
and/or Lancelot
Readings: Tennyson,
"Sir Launcelot
and Queen Guinevere: A Fragment" (1842; online reading); William
Morris, "The
Defence of Guenevere" (online reading);
PRESENTATIONS (up to two):
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| Topic and Readings | |
| Day 1 | Visions of Merlin / Fatal Women: Vivian, Morgan,
Nimue
Readings: AKA 3-47 ("Merlin"), 99-123 ("The Death of Merlin"), and 109-123 ("Morgan le Fay"); Tennyson, "Merlin and Vivien" (Idylls 142-67); Robert Buchanan, "Merlin's Tomb" (1859; online reading); Tennyson, "Merlin and the Gleam" (1889; online reading); Wildfrid Scawen Blunt, "To Nimue" (1914; online reading); Thomas de Beverley, "The Story of Nimue" (1925; online reading). PRESENTATIONS (up to two):
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| Day 2 | Victorian Poets Catch-up Day; no presentations scheduled (unless they are also "catch-ups"). |
| Topic and Readings | |
| Day 1 | Visions of the Grail
Readings: Tennyson, "The Holy Grail" (Idylls 206-30); Tennyson, "Sir Galahad" (1834; online reading); James Russell Lowell, "The Vision of Sir Launfaul" (1838; online reading); William Morris, "Sir Galahad: A Christmas Mystery" and "The Chapel in Lyoness" (both 1858; online readings); Eugene Field, "The Vision of the Grail" (1905; online reading); Sophie Jewett, "The Dwarf's Quest: A Ballad" (1905; online reading). PRESENTATIONS (up to two):
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| Day 2 | Visions of the Grail, wrap-up; John Boorman's 1981
film, Excalibur
PRESENTATIONS (up to two ONLY if all days have at least one already):
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| Topic and Readings | |
| Day 1 | Marion Zimmer Bradley, The
Mists of Avalon
Reading: MOA ix-xi and 1-231 (Mistress of Magic). PRESENTATIONS (up to two; second presenter should sign up ONLY if at least one person has signed up for each of the other presentation dates):
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| Day 2 | Marion Zimmer Bradley, The
Mists of Avalon
Reading: MOA 235-447 (The High Queen). PRESENTATIONS (up to two; second presenter should sign up ONLY if at least one person has signed up for each of the other presentation dates):
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| Topic and Readings | |
| Day 1 | Marion Zimmer Bradley, The
Mists of Avalon
Reading: MOA 453-651 (The King Stag). PRESENTATIONS (up to two; second presenter should sign up ONLY if at least one person has signed up for each of the other presentation dates):
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| Day 2 | Marion Zimmer Bradley, The
Mists of Avalon
Reading: MOA 655-876 (The Prisoner in the Oak). PRESENTATIONS (up to two; second presenter should sign up ONLY if at least one person has signed up for each of the other presentation dates):
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| Topic and Readings | |
| Day 1 | MIDTERM EXAM |
| Day 2 | The 1974 film Monty
Python and the Holy Grail (90 mins.)
PRESENTATION: one only on Monty Python's Holy Grail
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