Don't get too cutesy/creative with it -- those only end up looking vaguely embarrassing 15 years and several critical fashions later. But I really like the resonance of "Narrative Inheritance", both as a phrase and as a good representation of what your thesis is actually about. Narrative Inheritance: A Case Study in Oral Literature?
And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
amych - Apr 02, 2008 2:21:16 pm PDT #2964 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
vw bug - Apr 02, 2008 2:24:15 pm PDT #2965 of 10001
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I like Narrative Inheritance too. That was all my brother.
What do we think about this one? I forgot to list it...
"Oral History through the Lens of Literature: A Case Study"
That was actually my parents' favorite, apparently.
amych - Apr 02, 2008 2:30:46 pm PDT #2966 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
"Oral History through the Lens of Literature: A Case Study"
Nope (no offense to the parents, of course). "Through the lens of" feels like student-desperate-to-pad-a-paper writing, and I have a burning hate-on for just "A [genre]" as a subtitle.
I blame way too many years of bookselling, and failing to move endless variations on Blah Blah Pretentious Literarycakes: A Novel. At a certain point, I wanted to send them all back with a note saying "if I can't tell it's a novel, you're not doing your job".
Pix - Apr 02, 2008 2:31:14 pm PDT #2967 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
"Oral History through the Lens of Literature: A Case Study"This is okay, but...
Narrative Inheritance: A Case Study in Oral LiteratureI like this best of all.
Fay - Apr 02, 2008 2:32:09 pm PDT #2968 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
...so, the times last night when I wasn't jumping out of bed and running to the loo?
I was dreaming about going to the loo. Or trying to find a loo. Often the loo then turned into a lift, with glass walls, and started moving, thus exposing my plight to the world.
I'm'a stay home today. Sorry, kidlets! (But they're having a half-day, which consists of: watch assembly, do spelling test, have snack and break time, spend remaining hour splashing in pool to celebrate Songkran and shooting each other with waterpistols, eat lunch and/or go home. Easy day.)
(It's my first day off so far, in a year and a half.)
vw bug - Apr 02, 2008 2:35:39 pm PDT #2969 of 10001
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Narrative Inheritance: A Case Study in Oral Literature
My only problem with this is that part of what I'm arguing is that, at least in this case, oral literature and literature shouldn't be separate things. So, it feels misleading.
Pix - Apr 02, 2008 2:37:10 pm PDT #2970 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Narrative Inheritance: Oral History As Literature
vw bug - Apr 02, 2008 2:38:44 pm PDT #2971 of 10001
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Ha! That's exactly what I was just thinking. Too funny.
amych - Apr 02, 2008 2:40:34 pm PDT #2972 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
That's exactly what I was just thinking.
Sounds like a winner, then!
(Incidentally, I'm very excited to see you heading for home on this project.)
vw bug - Apr 02, 2008 2:41:41 pm PDT #2973 of 10001
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Incidentally, I'm very excited to see you heading for home on this project.
You and me both! I'm going to finish it on time! Nothing will stop me! (Nobody will believe it!)