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britneyshakespeare · 5 months ago

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sometimes i read some people's literary analysis and i'm like geez, at times this can be quite gushy and sentimental... but then i look in the mirror and i'm like well. i'm really rather gooey myself

#reading my feedback on my shakespeare conference paper on aphra behn's the young king and cymbeline #i've been (rightfully) critiqued (though not harshly; very sympathetically; even endearingly) for the amount of just LOVE i have in my essa #one person said (and i dont disagree w them) that i told more than showed and i could've used more of the actual text in my paper #i agree! i do not feel that my paper is the best representation of the themes and ideas i wanted to explore #i was very very constrained by the word count. which i amply went over anyway.#i had too many big ideas and i boiled them down instead to what i was most impassioned by #for how many notes i took on my rereading of the young king and cymbeline. lol JESUS i went crazy #my annotations were kinda all for naught #unless i were to rewrite and expand on it all someday; a worthy idea but not necessarily what i see myself doing #as im currently not even in higher academia anymore and just a public school employee #im not publishing my literary analyses! lol. unless someone wants to commission me (no one does)#tales from diana #both responses ive gotten so far are very nice. the first one especially #they said they felt a real kinship w my love of literature and the past and my passion for marginalized and female authors #and i mean. come on. it's a SHAKESPEARE conference we're going to here. i think that's the audience lol #preaching to the choir #when i speak of these things to my family i may as well be talking about paint drying

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