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The Essence of Literature: A Case Study in Oral History
vw, I like this one the best out of all the titles you've posted.
And ION completely, PMS sucks like a giant sucking thing. I want to curl up and go back to bed. Unfortunately, I'm already at work.
I'm suddenly seized with the wish that I'd named my thesis "Quotation Marks Around the Title" rather than It's All a Big Lie. Neither one would tell you what it was about, but the first is a better meta commentary.
While I agree with what WindSparrow's saying, I find myself wondering, "What about the essence of literature?" How would you feel about being more sentence-y than noun-phrase-y?
Always keeping in mind, of course, that your thesis will end up shelved with a bunch of things entitled, Ethnohistory of the Hagiography of Warsaw's converts to Christianity in the late 1840s: One Muslim's Perspective and Expression of T-3578321 in One-Celled Prokaryotes Living on Mudfish in the Hollow Behind a Dallas Subdivision. Yours will make more sense no matter what!
How would you feel about being more sentence-y than noun-phrase-y?
Do you have a suggestion? :)
Always keeping in mind, of course, that your thesis will end up shelved with a bunch of things entitled, Ethnohistory of the Hagiography of Warsaw's converts to Christianity in the late 1840s: One Muslim's Perspective and Expression of T-3578321 in One-Celled Prokaryotes Living on Mudfish in the Hollow Behind a Dallas Subdivision. Yours will make more sense no matter what!
So true! Though, from what I can tell, it will not be shelved. It's going to be stuffed in some files (in the English department and honors department). The only way this will get out there is if I push to have it published, which I probably will be working on this summer. I've gotten great encouragement to do so from people on both sides of the argument (Lit and Oral History).
Em, do you mean something like, "Literary Essence as it Relates to Oral History"?
No, I guess I was thinking more like, "This is the Essence of Literature," but now that I think of it that doesn't convey any more information than yours. Never mind. I'm not very good at the title game.
Thanks anyways, you!
Titles are usually what comes to me first, so trying to do this last is really throwing me off.
Though, at a much higher level than high school :).
True dat. It was the best example I could think of, seeing as I have had no lit. classes since high school (had enough A.P. credits to meet the need). So, other than Oral Histories, what other forms of Capital-L Lit. are university students exposed to, that most people do not realize are Lit., that I may be missing out on?
So, other than Oral Histories, what other forms of Capital-L Lit. are university students exposed to, that most people do not realize are Lit., that I may be missing out on?
Beats me. And the idea of Oral History as literature isn't widely accepted...that's a big part of my argument. I was more commenting on the quality, not the idea. Sorry!
Completely unrelated to the thesis, I just uploaded the pictures I took of the kids yesterday at after school. It was a rough day, but they were still pretty cute. This is one of my preschoolers playing dress up: [link] Yes, she is, in fact, wearing a poodle skirt on her head.
The rest of the pictures are locked, because I can't just have their pictures out on the web, but I felt like I could share this one. They are TOO funny.