GALing and Boundaries with XH

[AntoniaB]

Beatrice, you must be across the pond, as you called them fairy stories! Yeah my book is called Fairy Tales Reimagined. Carter is referenced a good bit in there as her feminist revisions were so important and set off a slew of others in the past 30 years. Kudos to your son on the dissertation topic! If he's interested in a Phd then he already has a leg up if he'd interested in Lyotard and Derrida. My good friend is in a Phd program in English and focusing on British lit, mostly contemporary, and most of what she deals with is theory. She was interested in post modernism before she went into her program so parts of the program are coming more easily to her than they are to her classmates. Anyway you must be familiar with Philip Pullman, then, as he's huge in England from what I understand. The book I'm writing now is on almost everything he's ever written, and most of it has been untouched by critics. He is my favorite writer of all time :-)

I think the idea of remembering that "should" is a word to avoid simplifies things a lot!