mfw i go to my parents' house to retrieve my copy of as i lay dying from high school and it's fukkin nowhere to be foundbecause my little sister took it to read for pleasure

Anybody want to help me brainstorm a few theses?

I have to do them with a New Historicism leaning, and it has to be relatively well-known texts. I've been reading up on this all week, but I still don't think I "get" it. I understand you have to take into account the cultural and historical time period the work was written during and the author lived in, and also understand that history is subjective, but I just can't get any sort of thesis working in my head. It just seems like the same thing as Cultural Criticism to me, with I guess a little more historical/biographical leaning.

But anyway. I don't know. Would something like, the sexualization of young girls, as in Nabokov's Lolita, resulted from the popularization of certain well-known TV idols? Or would that be Cultural? I'm not too knowledgeable about history, so this is doubly difficult for me.

I'm studying A Christmas Carol at the moment, and to be frank I'm sick of reading Dickens because of his constant referance to the plight of the poor in the Elizabethian era. No one cares, Dickens, poor people are failures at life no matter how pure of heart, yes I'm talking to you Bob Cratchit.

Has anyone read this book and is it any good?

http://www.amazon.com/Nanpa-Beginners-Japanese-Girl-Hunting-ebook/dp/B004EYT3U6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&a
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“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
-Winston Churchill

Thoughts?

okay,
let's say I have a theory that will revolutionize an academic field, and I plan to write a book about it,

let's say that this theory includes diagrams

how do I go about getting copyrights to it? I've looked at my countries copyright application process but it's pretty ambiguous when it says "literary works" can be copywritten, but not "ideas"

where do diagrams fit into it? It's not really an artistic expression either

Is my best bet just to write a paper about it and submit it with relevant diagrams?

>Month one
Mommy, I am only 8 inches long
but I have all my organs.
I love the sound of your voice.
Every time I hear it
I wave my arms and legs.
The sound of your heart beat
is my favorite lullaby.

>Month Two
Mommy, today I learned how to suck my thumb.
If you could see me
you could definitely tell that I am a baby.
I'm not big enough to survive outside my home though.
It is so nice and warm in here.

/lit/ winner of best work of fiction to be first published in 2011. Pic relater, it's my nomination. What's yours?

hi /lit/
I would like to talk to you about books, email me at skype:jesus_love_you_devil

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