Instead of working on the novel today ...

[truepenny]

I've put my dissertation, in its entirety, up on my website.

I do, after all, own the copyright, and I have no plans to do anything more with the damned thing ever again.

So, if you're interested in Renaissance theater or horror or genre theory (or how I practice genre theory) or what a Ph.D. dissertation in English literature looks like, go check it out.

I'm getting back down in the trenches with the novel.

Comments

[albionidaho.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Thanks!

[aranel.livejournal.com]

Do you happen to remember about how many words it is? I say this because at first glance, it looks a little more manageable-sized than I was expecting. (I'm a first-year grad student, so the diss still looms far in the distance like a great looming thing.)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I don't know the word-count, but the thing comes to 276 ms pages (double-spaced Courier), which is roughly 70,000 words. (My department's rule of thumb was 250-300 pages, iirc.)

[aranel.livejournal.com]

Wow, the formatting makes it look much shorter, I guess.

Thanks!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Single spaced Times New Roman with margins as wide as all Montana.

Yes.

[heresluck]

And yet some of us weaseled our way out with so much less than the dept's rule of thumb. ::whistles::

Seriously, it's lovely to see you making the diss available for the edification of others; I still think it's terrific. Everything I know about horror and three-quarters of what I know about revenge tragedy I learned from you.

[(Anonymous)]

Some of us are still hoping to weasel through on the very short end of that guideline. ;-)

And I'm totally delighted to see your diss available online; I enjoyed reading bits of it long ago, and I'm excited to come back to it when I have a chance! Did I tell you that my department divides the Shakespeare class for majors into two by genre? Next spring I have to teach the histories and tragedies (doesn't that sound cheerful?), and I may have to look to your diss for guidance!

the grrly grrl

[pameladean]

Aaaaaagggghhhhh. And me with a deadline! Maybe I could use chapters to reward myself for writing. Hmmmm.

P.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Yay! I've been hoping you'd do that!

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I've been wanting to read this since before you submitted it to, er, THEM! (the bipeds, not the six-legged mutants).

[brainstormfront.livejournal.com]

Nifty. I didn't know you were a fellow Badger. :)

I'm sorry to say Melusine still languishes on the to-be-read pile, but I look forward to getting to it early in the new year (after I finish my own novel to be written ASAP).

Steven

[larryhammer]

Sweet. <bookmarks another link for this week's self-paced online training>

[(Anonymous)]

I was wondering how exhaustive the North American thesis database really was, earlier this year, and also I have a fascination with perusing the dissertations of people I think are cool, so I put the ol' university library search engine to good use and... uhh ... to sum up, I had a copy of your dissertation on my computer for a couple of days at some point.

... and now you think I'm an uberstalker.

It's not there anymore. I promise. :)

Sara

[travellex.livejournal.com]

Thank you.