Doing a PhD in the Man Himself

namelessnarrator

namelessnarrator

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So I got funded for my PhD on New Weird fiction, and I'll be doing a deep analysis of Thomas Ligotti and arguing his ideas have instrumentally made a massive effect on how we approach fiction as it approaches the real world!

All this to say that, I wanted to ask if people we're curious about seeing the research I'd done for on that masters that got my PhD funded. Without Ligotti, without this community, without every one of us -- this wouldn't have been possible. Writers like Ligotti, Padgett, Cushing, Cardin, Files, Ashe and so many others -- we all write to relate to one another. And I really wanted to, in my Masters at least, start that project of giving back to these writers. With Masters etc, that work gets chopped up for journals -- but I wanted to at least offer it in its wholesale content here, so that people could read it if they'd like :) I'm so open to criticisms, too, as I want to improve -- I tend to read Ligotti in some other academic lenses, but it's all the gist of how his fiction and the fiction he inspired constantly made me the person I was.

But yeah, I'd be using all this for articles, but i'll be reuising them in drastically different ways. I'd at least like the base research to go to some leisurely use if, at all, anyone is curious!
 
I'm interested, too. I was planning on doing some serious academic study of Ligotti before my research career got blown off course, and I never really went back to it. I'm not terribly sad about it, as I've found plenty of other things with which to occupy myself, but I do occasionally wonder what might have been.
 
Nothingist said:
I'm interested, too. I was planning on doing some serious academic study of Ligotti before my research career got blown off course, and I never really went back to it. I'm not terribly sad about it, as I've found plenty of other things with which to occupy myself, but I do occasionally wonder what might have been.
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It's fascinating to hear about your initial plans for a rigorous academic study of Ligotti, and despite the fact that your research career took a different direction, it's apparent you've found rewarding activities. Thinking on what could have been adds a meditative layer to your path.
 
Hello!

This project is very much alive and well -- I'm entering the final year. I recently finished my first chapter that now covers Thomas Ligotti and Joel Lane's broad sort of evolution through the Weird from the 80s and into the 00s. Largely, this survey unpacks how they are continually responding to the "nightmarish realities" that continually elude capture through fiction. I actually have a few shorter length versions of these awaiting publication, as opposed to the thirty-thousand word piece it currently sits as!

The former part of the chapter covers not just Ligotti, see, but the situations as to why Ligotti emerges. "Old" Weird, Surrealism, decadent literature, European literature etc., and then metafiction as it should arise in the 60s onwards. I'm hoping I can get this all cleaned up and publishable and shareable for everyone here :)

when the PhD is complete, it'll promise to cover 'Ligptti's Children', as it were, and other Weird writers whom we may all already love, as a key part is about "reality" as a kind of author of other authors (in that delightfully ouroborian paradox Ligotti so loves in that Borgesian vein of endeavouring to discover who writes who?).

I've had a terrible flu -- and the last year and a half has been mired with several illnesses, but re-logging in, I wanted to update everyone who has been so patiently replying! I'll try attach some files ASAP.
 
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