[christielovesyou]

(Original post by LonelySoul193)
Me neither!

Oh, thank God I'm not the only one! I'm going to make an attempt to start it right now...

[LonelySoul193]

(Original post by christielovesyou)
Oh, thank God I'm not the only one! I'm going to make an attempt to start it right now...

My response to your plan to start:

[christielovesyou]

(Original post by LonelySoul193)
My response to your plan to start:

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Haha, based on the fact that I'm still no further forward, I'd say that was my response too

It doesn't help that it's suddenly occured to me that I could do a poetry dissertation in a lot less time (and it would be a lot easier because, not to blow my own trumpet, but I'm awesome at analysing poetry well and quickly, whereas prose and drama take me a few readings) than the prose one I was planning to do, so now I'm having to go right back to the start and decide what poet/poems to study

[LonelySoul193]

(Original post by christielovesyou)
Haha, based on the fact that I'm still no further forward, I'd say that was my response too

It doesn't help that it's suddenly occured to me that I could do a poetry dissertation in a lot less time (and it would be a lot easier because, not to blow my own trumpet, but I'm awesome at analysing poetry well and quickly, whereas prose and drama take me a few readings) than the prose one I was planning to do, so now I'm having to go right back to the start and decide what poet/poems to study

Ah, I see. I always found poetry more difficult to analyse personally. But anyway, I know I'm doing A Clockwork Orange and Crime & Punishment. I've written some notes/quotes out but no ACTUAL progress so far...

[christielovesyou]

(Original post by LonelySoul193)
Ah, I see. I always found poetry more difficult to analyse personally. But anyway, I know I'm doing A Clockwork Orange and Crime & Punishment. I've written some notes/quotes out but no ACTUAL progress so far...

It's only easier than other genres for us because we haven't done any prose/drama this year because we're on a weird timetable and don't have time to do anything other than poetry. And, honestly? Once you've spent months studying Donne, everything else is a breeze.

I was originally going to do something about vanity/pressure of beauty in Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, which I had quotes from, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, which I'd need to reread first to find quotes and now I'm thinking it all just seems like too much effort.

(You can tell I'm full of enthusiasm for this subject, can't you? )

[LonelySoul193]

(Original post by christielovesyou)
It's only easier than other genres for us because we haven't done any prose/drama this year because we're on a weird timetable and don't have time to do anything other than poetry. And, honestly? Once you've spent months studying Donne, everything else is a breeze.

I was originally going to do something about vanity/pressure of beauty in Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, which I had quotes from, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, which I'd need to reread first to find quotes and now I'm thinking it all just seems like too much effort.

(You can tell I'm full of enthusiasm for this subject, can't you? )

Ah... I see

Yeah, both of which are on my 'to-read' list xD

Hah, yes you sound very motivated

[christielovesyou]

Well, it's official guys...WE NO LONGER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT DISSERTATIONS!

[aroy45]

Hey just started s6 and we are working on our dissertations at the moment. I know you are not allowed to write the dissertation about what you do your essays in the exam on but I was wondering - is this just the certain texts or the author's whole works?
One of my favourite books is Sylvia Plaths's 'The Bell Jar' but we are studying her poetry in class - would the sqa allow me to write about her novel in a dissertation if I write about her poems in an exam


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[J'adoreMaCachette]

(Original post by aroy45)
Hey just started s6 and we are working on our dissertations at the moment. I know you are not allowed to write the dissertation about what you do your essays in the exam on but I was wondering - is this just the certain texts or the author's whole works?
One of my favourite books is Sylvia Plaths's 'The Bell Jar' but we are studying her poetry in class - would the sqa allow me to write about her novel in a dissertation if I write about her poems in an exam


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Hey Good luck with English! I don't think it's possible for you to do Plath if you'll be studying her as part of your literary unit. I'm pretty sure its an author's full work. Bad news There are plenty of other amazing writers/poets/playwrights you can do your dissertation on though!


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(Original post by aroy45)
Hey just started s6 and we are working on our dissertations at the moment. I know you are not allowed to write the dissertation about what you do your essays in the exam on but I was wondering - is this just the certain texts or the author's whole works?
One of my favourite books is Sylvia Plaths's 'The Bell Jar' but we are studying her poetry in class - would the sqa allow me to write about her novel in a dissertation if I write about her poems in an exam


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MAJOR ADVICE: Read your texts, research them, annotate them, plan your essays AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. And then do your first draft AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Honestly, I left my dissertation until the last minute and it WAS A DISASTER Do your first draft really quickly and continuously work on redrafting it afterwards: you'll be sure to get an A that way! This is from what I've learned having made the mistakes: don't make the same mistakes

Good luck!

[aroy45]

(Original post by Quick-use)
MAJOR ADVICE: Read your texts, research them, annotate them, plan your essays AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. And then do your first draft AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Honestly, I left my dissertation until the last minute and it WAS A DISASTER Do your first draft really quickly and continuously work on redrafting it afterwards: you'll be sure to get an A that way! This is from what I've learned having made the mistakes: don't make the same mistakes

Good luck!

Thankyou so many ideas and I can only choose one


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[Belaruce]

I am really keen on 'Hunger' by Knut Hamsun. Reading it so far, the central character is well developed in a sense we can understand the workings behind his mad theories. I am struggling to find an appropriate book to compare it with? Does anyone have any suggestions?

[YeOldeBassClef]

I'm sitting Advanced Higher English this year and we've to choose our books by the end of the week really.

I started reading Catch 22 about 2 days ago and I'm enjoying it so far. Does anyone have any recommendations to go with it? Our class is being advised to take 3 books for the dissertation but we only need to decide on 2 for this week. I was thinking possibly Slaughterhouse Five, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated though!

[aroy45]

Anyone else doing a poetry dissertation?

[MarkMcGowan3]

I would never do a dissertation on poetry, I just don't think I could ever write enough on it.

I was thinking of doing either Samuel Beckett or Philip Roth (familiar with both Authors). Although, I'm not sure if Philip Roth is acceptable, any thoughts?

What are you all doing for your literary study? I'm doing Shakespeare, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra, language is great albeit annoying!

[aroy45]

(Original post by MarkMcGowan3)
I would never do a dissertation on poetry, I just don't think I could ever write enough on it.

I was thinking of doing either Samuel Beckett or Philip Roth (familiar with both Authors). Although, I'm not sure if Philip Roth is acceptable, any thoughts?

What are you all doing for your literary study? I'm doing Shakespeare, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra, language is great albeit annoying!

I've got to do 10 poems butsit's okay because I love poetry.

We are doing 16 Sylvia Plath poems and then 2 Alasdair Grey novels -poor things and Lanark


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(Original post by aroy45)
I've got to do 10 poems butsit's okay because I love poetry.

We are doing 16 Sylvia Plath poems and then 2 Alasdair Grey novels -poor things and Lanark


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I did my dissertation last year on poetry. I did The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, The Cantos by Ezra Pound and Tulips & Chimneys by E.E. Cummings. I treated them each as three poems, but they have all chapters/sub-sections and pretty sure it reached like 100 or more poems . Make sure to do something you're especially interested in. At the time I thought poetry was my forte, and I thought my options were cool/impressive, and I thought I'd like them. No, no, no to all the former assumptions unfortunately - it was disastrous! I'd say I'm more inclined towards drama (perhaps), I've learned not to do on things that are cool/impressive but rather on what I'm interested on. It makes everything a whole lot easier. Having said that, I was never short for much to say in my dissertation; but it was definitely much harder to write an essay/dissertation on poetry unless you're a total pro (which I'm sure you are )

[aroy45]

(Original post by Quick-use)
I did my dissertation last year on poetry. I did The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, The Cantos by Ezra Pound and Tulips & Chimneys by E.E. Cummings. I treated them each as three poems, but they have all chapters/sub-sections and pretty sure it reached like 100 or more poems . Make sure to do something you're especially interested in. At the time I thought poetry was my forte, and I thought my options were cool/impressive, and I thought I'd like them. No, no, no to all the former assumptions unfortunately - it was disastrous! I'd say I'm more inclined towards drama (perhaps), I've learned not to do on things that are cool/impressive but rather on what I'm interested on. It makes everything a whole lot easier. Having said that, I was never short for much to say in my dissertation; but it was definitely much harder to write an essay/dissertation on poetry unless you're a total pro (which I'm sure you are )

I was actually looking at the wasteland and The cantos but couldnt work out a questions if you don't mind me asking - what did you write about?


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(Original post by aroy45)
I was actually looking at the wasteland and The cantos but couldnt work out a questions if you don't mind me asking - what did you write about?


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You're kidding right? God, I would never allow someone to go through what I went through willingly! The Waste Land, maybe, but The Cantos?!?!

In any case, my dissertation was on to what extent the poets T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings were true modernists. I had decided that Eliot and Pound were not modernists from the very beginning and I put Cummings in there to argue the opposite. I quite enjoyed analysing Cummings' poetry - it was interesting and quite exotic. But, Eliot was just utterly depressing and Pound was just undecipherable - I had no idea what on earth he was talking about and there's such limited resource on his poetry on the internet and even academic books! I spent several days in The National Library of Scotland and found barely anything on The Cantos that I could actually use. As for Tulips & Chimneys, there wasn't much material on that either, but I did find one book that analysed his poetry and I used that as a base to start off my own analysis with.

I recommend you do some modern poetry honestly. Something that truly interests you and something that you understand and empathise with.

[MarkMcGowan3]

I was thinking of doing Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, looking at themes of Identity. Can anyone suggest another novel to explore along side these two?