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Dispatches from your local PhD student, where we talk about the books that make us human
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Going to Grad School Right Now Is Probably a Bad Idea (opens the original)
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Before we begin, I want to make a few things clear. Firstly, this post is long! So read it in the app for a better experience:This is, first and foremost, a post about getting a Humanities PhD.I live in the States. I’m British by birth, and my undergraduate education was completed in the UK. I considered a UK PhD programme for a while, but in the end, personal and family commitments made it impossible at the time to complete my PhD in the UK. I’ll be talking about recent changes in the UK higher
it is a truth universally acknowledged that you will have opinions on pride and prejudice (opens the original)
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Welcome to Reading Notes, where I walk you through various texts from my qualifying exams list: the history of the European novel 1600-2000 (technically 2001, but we’ll talk about that later). As promised, we’re talking about Pride and Prejudice this week. We all have our favourite adaptation: for some it is 1995, others it is Joe Wright’s 2005 (I am partial to both). Some people really love Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is an interesting take. Purist, creative-liberty-lover, or “I like
Reading at Random (opens the original)
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dead souls (opens the original)
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I would say that our deep-dive (ish) into the development of the French novels has been pretty successful. I’m still not 100% on format yet, but I’m sure as we keep going we’ll work out the kinks and get a solid format down. This is a bit late because I’ve had a bit of a rough week—my fellowship got reduced for some unknown reason and now I’m responsible for a HUGE tuition payment (I’m two semesters ahead of where I should be and have a 4.0, as well as a really great academic history), so my mot
Reading Recap: A Study of French Novels (opens the original)
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Over the last six or so weeks, we’ve been exploring the development of the novel in France, using my qualifying exam list as our guide.We’ve looked at texts ranging from the Marquis de Sade’s Justine to Proust’s Swann’s Way (and we’ll be incorporating The Plague by Camus into this post). But, what
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