And today...was a very good day.

[lareinenoire]

I will be getting my PhD. Come Hell or high water.

Because today, I received not one, but *two* acceptances. One from University of Exeter, and the other from University of Reading (who, incidentally, rejected me two years ago). I am completely feeling the UK love.

And, to top it off, I've been accepted to the Disjunctions conference at UC Riverside in April, where I get to present a paper on Neil Gaiman.

(A paper I now need to write)

But hey, it's all good. Because I'm getting a PhD!

Comments

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Fallen angels in Gaiman's work as they compare to previous incarnations (Marlowe, Milton, Byron, etc). So I'm concentrating on Lucifer in The Sandman, most of the cast of Murder Mysteries, and Crowley in Good Omens.

[cheshyre]

Sounds cool.

Thru work, I came across a paper from 2004 on how Gaiman portrayed Shakespeare in Sandman, so if you were touching on that aspect, I wanted to make sure you knew about this paper and had a copy for reference. (If you're interested nonetheless, let me know and I can email you the PDF)

[Re:Murder mysteries, keep in mind it's been published separately as a prose story and as a comic.]

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

That would be wonderful, actually. I know people have written about Gaiman, and almost certainly about how he uses classical allusion, so any articles would be fantastic.

And I planned to look at both versions of Murder Mysteries and see if there was any major difference between the two. There will obviously be differences, just based on the media.

[cheshyre]

Ok, I sent you the article (actually, I messed up and first sent you another article from the same issue, THEN I send you the correct article).

The essay I intended to send you is
"No more yielding than a dream": The Construction of Shakespeare in "The Sandman." by Annalisa Castaldo, in the Fall 2004 issue of College Literature (Vol. 31, Issue 4)

Hope you find it interesting, and possibly handy.