You gotta have faith.

It is criminal how many webpages I had to sift through to find out where each document went, and then what the actual addresses that I needed to send things to. The idea of spending almost $1100 on applications and spending so many countless hours on these applications felt suddenly overwhelming. I really hope I get in somewhere...

Qualify this!

I turned in my Qualifying Exam essays on Monday morning after a weekend of writing. Despite the craziness involved in the writing, I actually sort of enjoyed the process. Below are abstracts for both of my papers. I was going to make each abstract under 50 words, but I gave up.

"Trying Literary Men: Walter Pater, Walt Whitman, and the Libel Trial of Oscar Wilde"

This essay examines the aesthetic and social implications of Walter Pater and Walt Whitman's work and how the influence of these two 19th century figures manifested itself in the 1895 libel trial of Oscar Wilde. It argues that the 'ontological aestheticism' of Pater, Whitman, and Wilde were on trial more so than the question of whether or not Wilde was, in fact, "posing as a somdomite [sic]."

"Haunted History: Surfacing the Supernatural in Morrison's Beloved and Kushner's Angels in America"

This essay works from Derrida's Specters of Marx and examines the rhetorical and narratological functions of ghosts in Beloved and Angels in America. It examines the way these two novels use ghost figures to reflect on history, announce their own historical situatedness, and challenge and/or reconstruct existing metanarratives.

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I dont really have energy to write an interesting post. In other news, I have been super obsessed with MGMT's "Time to Pretend" for some reason. I used to hate the song. The video is interesting. I love the Alejandro Jodorowsky references.


Time To Pretend

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