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St Ives at night

I have been away from uni for a week now. I started to have serious doubts - not just breaking through walls, or overcoming obstacles but REALLY struggling emotionally to deal with this. I spent time with my former lecturer yesterday evening, watching 1st and 2nd years perform at the St Ives Arts Centre (interesting place - appparently, it is where Virginia Woolf used to play with her sister). Seeing her made me feel better, like I am not a faceless commodity anymore. I am making steps to complete some work now, going back to annotating Carmilla.

I wish I had known that I could've spread the BA top up over 2 years - modules year one and major dissertation year two. I am a third of the way through the third year now. Still, back to what i know best - lose myself in a book.

( Incidental music..... )

22:43

Have finished annotating Carmilla. Lots of rich symbolism there and many examples of Freud's 'Uncanny.' Hubby moved my room around a couple of weeks ago and now it is functioning once more. So nice to read in a comfy chair with Classic FM on and a gale blowing outside - the Met Office have named it storm Desmond (since when have we been naming storms??? The last one a week ago was called Barney and I thought they were joking).

Current Music: Depeche Mode - Only When I Lose Myself

I have less than 2 hours to find 437 to meet the criteria set for 1,000 word mini rough draft of the major dissertation. I have, however found a link with Carmilla and Lady Bathory, so that will be useful.

18:17
1,000 words emailed to my dissertation partner - I will read hers on the train tomorrow at 07:50.

"What does the 'o' stand for? O my God, it's early" (Adrian Cronauer - Good Morning Vietnam)

When I did my Victorian modules last year, I really wanted to tackle Dracula and compare it with the earlier Frankenstein and use other comparatives. I was persuaded to study either/or A Dolls House/The Yellow Wallpaper and compare it with The Bell Jar. Basically, because of prolonged absences re Hubby's illness, it was better to tackle something I had read and use the feminist theory module to work on. I did it pretty well, but felt sad that I couldn't put my reading of Dracula to good use.

( Books for Monsters/Madness major dissertation )

I can see another psychoanalytical/feminist theory stance here, possibly even post colonial - there is also something called 'Queer Theory' too - though I haven't really got any knowledge of it.

Onward to tomorrow - am not going to uni as I have been a bit poorly over the weekend and need to catch up :-/

Original Artist - B-trndl at Deviant Art

I chose Bluebeard as I was interested as to the monster archetypes in fairy tales. Most of them seemed to be lumbering, or plain ugly - but Bluebeard seemed to be generally frightening. I have 2,500 words to find between now and next Monday re the first half of the diss. It will be comprised of Perrault/Brothers Grimm (albeit briefly)/Le Fanu and Charlotte Bronte. This could be a HUGE project, but I have to pare it down to the bare minimum. It will have Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber in it at some point too.

Yesterday and today, I have spent making notes on the Perrault/Le Fanu one and tomorrow, I will have to start writing. In between, I will be doing the IAS PP too.

( The Bloody Chamber - Warning NSFW )

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"All this talk of blood and slaying has put me off my tea"

Entries tagged with joseph sheridan le fanu

Major Dissertation - 'Carmilla' Annotation

Major Dissertation - Children of the Night (the first 1,000 words)

Monsterous Undertaking?

Bluebeard Mini Dissertation Part One - The Prologue

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