Senior Thesis
so i have to present my senior thesis in class on thrusday.
good thing I haven't formulated it yet. I thought I had, but when I got my abstract back, my professor told me it needed to be more focused. Then she went away for 5 days. I thought I had it figured out, but upon taking to her today, I'm still wrong.
basically she told me that i can't agrue that serialized fiction isn't dead and that it has just changed demographic..because its not arguable. I simply need to show that it isn't and then I'm done. I need to say WHY there is a resurgence of literary serials - why its happening now and why the demographic has shifted.
problem is, I don't know. And I don't know how to figure that out, short of emailing modern authors and asking why they are doing it.
So i did. So far one person has written me back... and reading his thoughts are amazing, but I still don't know how to write a real thesis.
Hillary thinks its because of TV - that in the modern period the mass culture serial are soaps and grey's anatomy. And therefore the actual pulp and ink text serials published in the Times and the Post are a reaction of the educated elite (because for some reason every dempgraphic desires a serial of some sort, its just that the educated crave the writing and not the plebian television)
Does this make sense?
The other idea (from the man who wrote me back) is that the modern reader only reads in short bursts - usually at the office between tasks. So the need to create smaller, digestable texts so that they can be fit in.
thoughts? I'm so screwed...
good thing I haven't formulated it yet. I thought I had, but when I got my abstract back, my professor told me it needed to be more focused. Then she went away for 5 days. I thought I had it figured out, but upon taking to her today, I'm still wrong.
basically she told me that i can't agrue that serialized fiction isn't dead and that it has just changed demographic..because its not arguable. I simply need to show that it isn't and then I'm done. I need to say WHY there is a resurgence of literary serials - why its happening now and why the demographic has shifted.
problem is, I don't know. And I don't know how to figure that out, short of emailing modern authors and asking why they are doing it.
So i did. So far one person has written me back... and reading his thoughts are amazing, but I still don't know how to write a real thesis.
Hillary thinks its because of TV - that in the modern period the mass culture serial are soaps and grey's anatomy. And therefore the actual pulp and ink text serials published in the Times and the Post are a reaction of the educated elite (because for some reason every dempgraphic desires a serial of some sort, its just that the educated crave the writing and not the plebian television)
Does this make sense?
The other idea (from the man who wrote me back) is that the modern reader only reads in short bursts - usually at the office between tasks. So the need to create smaller, digestable texts so that they can be fit in.
thoughts? I'm so screwed...