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Old 7th February 2007, 3:45pm   #12
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Re: Gillian McKeith's PhD thesis

My sister's PhD is 270 pages in its published version. The texts it concerns are a mixture of English, ancient Greek, medieval French, and also Hebrew, Aramaic and Syriac.

It's full of phrases like

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The influence of postmodernism and poststructuralism has become strong in the field of literary-synchronic approaches, and inherent in many postmodern and poststructuralist theories is a concern with political subversion and denaturalization of the material of rhetorical exchanges. Bar-Efrat comments on the tendency of the "avowedly historical approach" to "regard the narratives as a means of uncovering the historico-cultural reality, such as the 'setting/function in life' (Sitz inm Leben) or the changing views, institutions and religious customs".
It gets harder after that because it frequently stops being in a language or even an alphabet I can read.

Admittedly I haven't read many other PhDs but there does seem to be a leedle teeny bit of a gap in standards and rigour between my sister's thesis and our poo-doctors ramblings.
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