PRUEBA DE EVALUACIÓN CONTINUA (PEC) 2019

INSTRUCCIONES:

Ø Conteste en las hojas de la PEC. SE HA DE ENTREGAR EL

ENUNCIADO
Ø Esta PEC consta de dos partes. Se deben contestar ambas.
Ø Redacte la PEC en inglés o en español, de forma clara y ordenada.
Ø Entregue esta PEC en “Tareas” del curso virtual antes del 13 de
diciembre de 2019 (tenga en cuenta que la hora límite que figura en ALF
es horario peninsular español).

PARTE A
Conteste a las siguientes 8 preguntas de forma clara y concisa: 0.5
PUNTOS cada respuesta. MÁX. 4 PUNTOS

1. Name of the wave of feminism originated in the US and extended

approximately through the 1970s to the early 1980s. / ¿Qué ola del feminismo se
originó en los Estados Unidos y se extiende aproximadamente desde los años
70 a principios de los 80?

ANSWER/RESPUESTA: Second wave feminism.

2. Name of the most extended and idealized female figure in Victorian

patriarchal society described in Virginia Woolf’s Professions for Women (1931).
It is based on a poem by Coventry Patmore/ Nombre de la figura femenina más
idealizada y extendida en la sociedad patriarcal victoriana que Virginia Woolf
describe en Professions for Women (1931). Este nombre está basado en un
poema de Conventry Patmore.

ANSWER/RESPUESTA: The Angel in the House.

3. Detail the year of publication and the full name of the authors of The
Madwoman in the Attic. / Indique el año de publicación y el nombre de las
autoras de The Madwoman in the Attic.

ANSWER/RESPUESTA: It was first published in 1979. Sandra Gilbert and

Susan Gubar.

4. Name the current, in feminist theory, that introduces the concept of “gender
difference” / Nombre de la corriente del pensamiento feminista que introduce el
concepto de “diferencia de género”.

ANSWER/RESPUESTA: Queer Theory

5. Identify the author and title of the poem these lines belong to. / Identifique
el/la autor/a y el título del poema al que este fragmento pertenece:

bemused by gallantry, we hear

our mediocrities over-praised,
indolence read as abnegation,
slattern thought styled intuition,
every lapse forgiven, our crime
only to cast too bold a shadow
or to smash the mold straight off.

ANSWER/RESPUESTA: The Aesthetics of Power by Adrienne Rich

6. Identify the author and title of the literary work this fragment belongs to. /
Identifique el/la autor/a y el título de la obra literaria a la que este fragmento
pertenece.

She meant, or she tried to make herself think that she meant, that it was the
picture and not her dress, that was old-fashioned. And one word of praise, one
word of affection from Charles would have made all the difference to her at the
moment. If he had only said, “Mabel, you’re looking charming tonight!” it would
have changed her life.

ANSWER/RESPUESTA: A Haunted House and other short stories by

Virginia Woolf

7. Identify the author and title of the literary work this fragment belongs to. /
Identifique el/la autor/a y el título de la obra literaria a la que este fragmento
pertenece:

Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap;
wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to
dry; don’t walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot
sweet oil.

ANSWER/RESPUESTA: Girl by Jamaica Kincaid

8. Identify the author and title of the poem these lines belong to. / Identifique
el/la autor/a y el título del poema al que este fragmento pertenece:

On either side the river lie

Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And thro' the field the road runs by
To many-tower'd Camelot;.

ANSWER/RESPUESTA:The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Tennyson

PARTE B
Escriba un ensayo de unas 250 palabras sobre el siguiente tema: MÁX. 6
PUNTOS.

1. Explore the idea of renounce and self-sacrifice expected from women -

for instance implicit in the sentence “don’t feel too bad about giving up” in
Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” - in the literary works studied so far in the
course. / Explore la idea de sacrificio y renuncia esperable de la mujer,
por ejemplo implícito en la frase “don’t feel too bad about giving up” que
aparece en “Girl” de Jamaica Kincaid, en las obras literarias estudiadas
hasta este momento en el curso.

Written by Jamaica Kincaid, this text is based on a several advices, or we must say
rules, that the mother provides to her daughter in order to fit in society or how she must
behave so she won’t be or look like a slut (‘this is how to behave in the presence of men
who don’t know you very well, and this way they won’t recognize immediately the slut
I have warned’). Although there are not explicit references to renounce or self-sacrifice
themselves, the whole idea is in the text. The mother is teaching the girl how to what is
expected from a woman. Throughout the text, it is implied how exhausting is to have
everything perfect and how to please society (‘ this is how you set a table for tea; this is
how you set a table for dinner…’) and how women were expected to follow the rules.
Also, we may see that through the whole narration the voice of the girl is erased, as in
she doesn´t have any option or choice other than following the imposed rules.

On the other hand, her mother gives her other advises that may not be ‘common’ in the
society they were living. As in example, the line ‘don’t feel too bad about giving up’
The mother explains that if the relationship with a man doesn´t work, there might be
many ways to fix it. We may see this is related to sexual relations. If those ways do not
work, the mother explains to her,” that she shouldn’t be afraid to end the relationship.