i'm still here

It's amazing how quickly essay and exam time rolls around again. This week has been peppered with classes, presentations, fieldtrips to Rousham and Bath, and mad dashes to the library to snag a couple of hours of research time.

Research always leaves you in want of more, but time is restraining.

The essay I am working on right now is relating Bakhtin's theory of the dialogic imagination, that all forms of speech or writing implies a relationship between the speaker (or writer) and listener (or reader), with Jane Austen's use of letters in her novels, as remnants of the epistolary novel which was just dying out when she began writing.

I think it's interesting, but I've heard otherwise.