Last year there was much discussion, worry and some violent
outbursts relating to how one could make the perfect dissertation question. This
question should be so clever, so culturally relevant and well researched, that
all other essay questions quivered in its presence and immediately dropped
their knickers.
Here are some dissertation questions that didn't quite make
it into a final 8000 words essay:
How does Shakespeare’s register indicate that he was actually
a batty?
In what sense could reading Joyce’s Ulysses be considered a colossal
waste of both yours and everyone else’s time?
Did Marlowe think Shakespeare was a bit of a prick?
‘Bird is the word:’ Discuss.
Look at the use of colloquial language in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. I bet you feel superior
now, don’t you?
“The clothed hyena rose up and stood tall on its hind feet:”
A critical analysis of the theory that Bertha Mason could actually kick Jane
Eyre’s scrawny white ass.
How does Sixteenth Century conduct literature reflect the
fact that everyone thought it was a bit funny that Elizabeth had gone bald?
“The tidal currents run to and fro on its unceasing surface:”
In what sense does the water imagery in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness make you need a wee?
How does the characterisation in Wuthering Heights suggest that the Brontes needed to get out more?
In a psychoanalytical analysis of your classmates, employing
techniques from Freud’s ‘The
interpretation of Dreams’ how many of them probably had crap childhoods?
A Marxist examination of the suggestion that: The portrayal
of class in the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy will not stop middle class teenagers
from going to poetry parties, wearing berets and hand rolling their cigarettes.
Is there evidence that Salome’s milkshake bought all the
boys to the yard? Was it Yazoo?
Did Seneca look like Helena Bonham Carter?
“Okoye was a musician:” When ‘writing back’ against the
domination of colonialist rule is it important that Chinua Achebe knew to how
to body-pop?
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