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Does anyone here have any experience writing a thesis for an English MA? It is the only thing I need for my degree but I have been putting it off for years because I am so disinterested in it and higher academia in general. I feel like the only things students are writing about are about either how white people have ruined everything or why the patriarchy must crumble.

Every topic I have proposed has been dismissed for nearing the fields of poli-sci or theology too much. I don't know what to do because I don't want to write another paper about phallic symbolism. I'd like to have a topic that confronts some field of Critical Theory because I want it to have some sense of pragmatism. Anyone experience anything similar or have advice?

>> No.11574259

Man I have a BA in Eng Lit and almost went for an MA, but I can't even imagine mustering the conviction to write about anything like that now. Looking back the whole thing was such a scam, and the staff were so hideously deconstructionist and anti-everything.

I don't know what to suggest, just do you.

>> No.11574295

>>11574259
I agree - it is a scam. I only pursued it because I need an MA to keep my teaching certification.

>> No.11574374

>>11574295
That's fair enough, and I'm not trying to dishearten you.

What kind o things have you tried submitting?

>> No.11574447

OP, write a scathing, 80 page indictment about Susan Sontag and expose her as the charlatan she was.

>> No.11574986

Try starting an academic/thesis/dissertation general perhaps. I'm interested in all of this myself.

>> No.11575154
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11575154

>>11574244
I take it you already tried writing about Celine?

>> No.11575327

>>11574986
Will do.

>>11575154
No I haven't - I really enjoy him but never thought of a topic involving him that I could write about.

>> No.11575332

>>11575327
Don't bother, he's a pariah to academics.

>> No.11575407

>>11575327
No problem, maybe link that thread here once you've created it?
Ignore >>11575332

>> No.11575543

>>11575327
Browse the threads more then.

>> No.11575820

>>11575327
Hey OP. I wouldn't mind seeing an academia thread for discussion of thesis writing and other things.

>> No.11576007

I am also interested, though I do not know what I should make a thesis on that's not linguistics in my country.

>> No.11576297

>>11575154
What's so great about celine I just made a thread asking this but nobody's replying.

>> No.11576543

>>11576297
Shame. Usually people love to talk about him on here.

>> No.11577913

>>11576297
i'll bump your thread

>> No.11578186

>>11575327
Hey OP are you ever going to make that Academia thread?

>> No.11579361

>>11574244
Should have went straight for the PhD OP.

>> No.11579405

>>11574447
this desu

>> No.11579596

>>11574447
You think this proposal will be accepted?

>> No.11580246

>>11579596
Not them but I want to see it at least tried.

>> No.11580734

>>11578186
Yes, tomorrow I will.

>> No.11582458

I'm in a similar position OP - I'll have to start researching in in the spring though but I still have no topic in mind.