{"id":183,"date":"2016-02-09T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T07:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/?page_id=183"},"modified":"2021-08-28T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T12:15:01","slug":"ba-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/ba-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"BA, MA, and PhD Thesis Advising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/files\/2016\/02\/Adriaen-Coorte_Three-Medlars-and-a-Butterfly.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79\" src=\"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/files\/2016\/02\/Adriaen-Coorte_Three-Medlars-and-a-Butterfly-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"Adriaen Coorte_Three Medlars and a Butterfly\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/files\/2016\/02\/Adriaen-Coorte_Three-Medlars-and-a-Butterfly-227x300.jpg 227w, http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/files\/2016\/02\/Adriaen-Coorte_Three-Medlars-and-a-Butterfly.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important information for prospective BA and MA students:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take the time to arrange a meeting with your potential thesis\u00a0advisor. Discuss your project and its feasibility and find out if they have an interest in your topic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maps of Belonging: Black British Identity in Andrea Levy&#8217;s <em>Fruit of the Lemon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Revolutionary Subjects: Humans and Things in Edward Carey&#8217;s Novel <em>Little<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Novel of Becoming: Richard Flanagan&#8217;s <em>Gould&#8217;s Book of Fish<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201eI simply am not there\u201c: Life as\u00a0Simulation\u00a0in Bret Easton Ellis&#8217; Novel\u00a0<em>American Psycho<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Space of Memory in Alistair MacLeod&#8217;s <em>No Great Mischief\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the Species Juncture: Humanity and Humility in Yann Martel&#8217;s <em>The High\u00a0Mountains of Portugal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guilty of Being Quilty: Stitching the Case of Margaret Atwood\u2019s <i>Alias Grace<\/i><\/p>\n<p>All Creatures Great and Small: (Neo-)Victorian Fossil Hunting in Tracy Chevalier\u2019s Novel <i>Remarkable Creatures<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Art of Mourning: Verbal Pentimento in Donna Tartt&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Goldfinch<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Thing on the String: The Art of Theft in John Banville\u2019s <em>The Blue Guitar<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Surfaces and Depths: The Geography of the Artistic Consciousness in Gerald Murnane\u2019s Novel <em>The Plains<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Poetics of the Miniature in Jessie Burton&#8217;s Novel <em>The Miniaturist<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Myth of an Artist: Anne Carson&#8217;s <em>Autobiography of Red<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Public and Private Memory in <em>Waltz with Bashir<\/em>:\u00a0<em>A Lebanon War Story <\/em>by Ari Folman and David Polansky<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Dionysian and the Orphean: Jim Morrison\u2019s Poetic Ventures<\/p>\n<p>Art and Authenticity in Tom McCarthy\u2019s\u00a0<em>Men in Space<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare Subverted: World as Carnival in Terry Pratchett&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Wyrd Sisters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Important information for prospective BA and MA students: &nbsp; Take the time to arrange a meeting with your potential thesis\u00a0advisor. Discuss your project and its feasibility and find out if they have an interest in your topic. &nbsp; 2021 Maps of Belonging: Black British Identity in Andrea Levy&#8217;s Fruit of the Lemon Revolutionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/web.vu.lt\/flf\/r.slapkauskaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}