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Term Papers
Aug. 2nd, 2008 11:45 amMy first term paper (the boring, awful one about the High German Consonant Shift) is done, and I've got preliminary topics for the remaining three.
For Germanistik I'll write, "Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus in literary reviews of Post-War Germany". The course I'm writing this for was about literary reviews in the 20th century, and I did a presentation on Re-Education and Post-War Germany, and I read the novel this winter. I've started writing this paper, and I think it'll be pretty easy and interesting to write.
For English Lit I'm going to write something along the lines of "Julian Barnes's England, England: a way out of Baudrillard's Third Order Simulacrum?". It's possible that this'll be WAY TOO HARD and I'll fail (I did a presentation about Baudrillard in this course and everyone was like "...?"). I'll have to try and read Baudrillard in the (translated!) original some more O__O
And for the Posthumanism course I've decided to just do something fun! :D
"Doctor Who: Stories of Posthumanisation from 1963 to 2008". (I love topics where Science-Fiction is perfectly acceptable source material. This will probably focus on the Daleks, Cybermen and Time Lords, spiced with proper academic source material. "Research" will involve watching episodes *g*)
Also in completely unrelated news, one of the guys from Creative Writing gave me the Dresden Files audio books burned on CD. They're read by James Marsters, whose American accent now bothers me for some reason. (Too much British English?) But still, he has a sexy voice. I now imagine Harry Dresden looking vaguely like Spike in his black leather duster, only with dark hair.
For Germanistik I'll write, "Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus in literary reviews of Post-War Germany". The course I'm writing this for was about literary reviews in the 20th century, and I did a presentation on Re-Education and Post-War Germany, and I read the novel this winter. I've started writing this paper, and I think it'll be pretty easy and interesting to write.
For English Lit I'm going to write something along the lines of "Julian Barnes's England, England: a way out of Baudrillard's Third Order Simulacrum?". It's possible that this'll be WAY TOO HARD and I'll fail (I did a presentation about Baudrillard in this course and everyone was like "...?"). I'll have to try and read Baudrillard in the (translated!) original some more O__O
And for the Posthumanism course I've decided to just do something fun! :D
"Doctor Who: Stories of Posthumanisation from 1963 to 2008". (I love topics where Science-Fiction is perfectly acceptable source material. This will probably focus on the Daleks, Cybermen and Time Lords, spiced with proper academic source material. "Research" will involve watching episodes *g*)
Also in completely unrelated news, one of the guys from Creative Writing gave me the Dresden Files audio books burned on CD. They're read by James Marsters, whose American accent now bothers me for some reason. (Too much British English?) But still, he has a sexy voice. I now imagine Harry Dresden looking vaguely like Spike in his black leather duster, only with dark hair.
