Paper yay!
Hurrah! I got a response from my prof about my planned paper topic. I can go ahead and write it. She agreed that the section I had planned on dance in 30s movie musicals might be a stretch, and that the material might work better as a gesture in the conclusion, but said to give it a shot anyway(!!!). Apparently there's a Katherine Mansfield short story that could go well with the Woolf novel I'm using, too.
This paper is going to be sprawling and gargantuan and awesome, and all about ballroom dance. I'm excited. Kind of wish I was up at campus so I could go right out, grab Vernon and Irene Castle's dance book and get started.
(Of course, first I have to get through my exam review. I'm about two thirds of the way through the Romantics--only Keats, Shelley, and a thickening of what I have on Emerson and Poe remain--and I'm hoping to be done with the Victorians by the time I go back to Knoxville on Wednesday. Then I need to spend probably a week sifting through what I know and what I don't know about the twentieth century, and figuring out where I want to steer the conversation to.)
This paper is going to be sprawling and gargantuan and awesome, and all about ballroom dance. I'm excited. Kind of wish I was up at campus so I could go right out, grab Vernon and Irene Castle's dance book and get started.
(Of course, first I have to get through my exam review. I'm about two thirds of the way through the Romantics--only Keats, Shelley, and a thickening of what I have on Emerson and Poe remain--and I'm hoping to be done with the Victorians by the time I go back to Knoxville on Wednesday. Then I need to spend probably a week sifting through what I know and what I don't know about the twentieth century, and figuring out where I want to steer the conversation to.)