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help me with my english dissertation

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OnlyWantsOne · 06/10/2010 13:34

I have to start seriously planning my dissertation in English. Except, for the last 2 years I have read nothing but the books on my course (which I have now been examined on, I cant write about again)

Can any one suggest a good dissertation topic (it has to be literary) or an author that could be interesting to study?

I was thinking about developing the maternal roles withing Jodi Picoult novels, but that, even in my pregnant head, sounds like a crock of shite.

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SleepingLion · 06/10/2010 13:42

The trouble with Jodi Picoult is that she's not regarded as that literary...

What are you interested in? Dystopian fiction is always a fascinating topic to look at for a dissertation (I have A Level students doing their A2 coursework on it now) with lots of choice of texts and topics. You could look at The Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, etc.

The dissertation I really want to write and would if I was doing a university course now is the subversion of the fairy tale - so comparing the original tales of Andersen and Grimm and Perrault to modern versions such as Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes, Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife. I would love to do that.