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Niniane Sunyata
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(10/18/05 10:33 pm)
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Patricia Mckillip - dissertation?
Hi there,
Haven't been posting on this boards for quite awhile since tons of stuff have been happening.
I'm in the crazy state of procastinating on applying to do my Phd because I'm torn between what I should do and what I want to do. My M.A. dissertation was on Angela Carter, and part of me wants to continue my M.A work, but as for the other parts of me, well - suffice to say that I have not ONE, but three research proposals in different stages of development.
Anyway, one of the people I would really love to incorporate in my comparative study is Patricia McKillip because she always gives me food for thought, but I need to know what work has already been done on her so I don't overlap. I've identified at least one via google.
Is anyone here working on her or do you know of anyone who has a dissertation/thesis etc of her work?
Thanks.
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Helen J Pilinovsky
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(10/18/05 11:26 pm)
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Re: Patricia Mckillip - dissertation?
Christine Mains, a Canadian scholar, is currently at work on a dissertation on McKillip: she's also guest-editing an issue of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts on McKillip, so that might make for a good place to start ...
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Niniane Sunyata
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(10/19/05 2:20 am)
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Thanks!
Thanks Helen. I'll google for her...
Which uni is that Journal affiliated with? I can't access any of the databases, nor any of the journal collections that helped me for my M.A. because I've graduated and am not registered in my alma mater this year. (teaching at a private college)
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midori
snyder
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(10/19/05 6:49 am)
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Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
Here's the homepage. It's from the College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University: Here's the blurb:
JFA, now in its 13th. year of publication, is an interdisciplinary quarterly devoted to the study of the fantastic in Literature, Art, Drama, Film and Popular Media. It is published by the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University, where production offices are located. Articles are fully refereed and are indexed in the MLA Bibliography. Like the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, from which it was generated, it welcomes papers on all aspects of the fantastic in English, American, French, Spanish, German and other national literatures, as well as interdisciplinary approaches including music, philosophy, sociology, psychology, political science, and religion. All papers are in English. JFA is currently publishing Volume 13. However, back issues of volumes 7 through 12 are still available. Alphabetical Author and Title indexes of volumes 1 through 9 are also available onsite.
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Niniane Sunyata
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(10/19/05 8:05 am)
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Yay!
Lovely. Going through the Author Index now.
Thank you!!
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Helen J Pilinovsky
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(10/19/05 8:57 am)
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Re: Yay!
One brief caveat: the website is a bit behind the progress of the actual journal, which is currently up to issue 15.3 (the McKillip issue is slated as number 16.2, so it should be out by this time next year).
In the interim, Mains has published at least two articles of which I am aware. One was in the 22nd conference volume of ICFA proceedings (Fantastic Odysseys, ed. Mary Pharr), and is titled "The Use, Abuse, and Misuse of Power: The Wizards of Patricia A. McKillip". The second can be found in Vol. 46, No. 1 of Extrapolation, and is titled "Having It All: The Female Hero's Quest for Love and Power in Patricia McKillip's The Riddlemaster Trilogy".
I also remember Sylvia Kelso presenting a wonderful paper on McKillip a few WisCons ago, and, er, I have a paper on McKillip's Brume in the same issue of Extrapolation: I hope this helps to start you off, and good luck with the hunt for additional sources!
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Niniane Sunyata
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(10/21/05 11:28 pm)
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Wow
That sounds like quite a lot of work has been done on her. I will check out all those extra names - thank you so much!
I hope there won't be too much of an overlap but then again, knowing me I'll probably be all obscure and abstract again (she makes my obscure and abstract little soul very happy with her diction/plot). We'll see. I'm in the process of rereading her books with an eagle eye.
Edit to say: I believe I've found the title of the Brume paper via Google - is this your paper, Helen?
The Mother of All Witches: Baba Yaga and Brume in Patricia McKillip's In the Forests of Serre. (Extrapolation)
Edited by: Niniane Sunyata at: 10/22/05 12:01 am
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