RougeRogue,
So I read the article about "The Wish" and "Dopplegangland" - great stuff! I need to look at it again, b/c in the intervening time my home computer died and I was dealing with stuff like finishing my thesis and entering grades for my class, etc. . . But there were things I wanted to directly address that now escape me (though perhaps there might be a better forum for this discussion). However, two things I do recall is, 1) you have the academic voice
down, which is simultaneously impressive and off-putting. Personally, I do my best to avoid writing that way - though it might just be that I am incapable of it.
And 2) I would have spent more time "with the text" so to speak - examining specific scenes and/or pieces of dialogue in detailed ways to explore some of the ideas in your essay.
I shall take a look again and this time make some notes. Of course, the things that stick out to me now are things that I am critical of, when while I was reading it there was plenty I liked - I am such a negative nelly!
On a slightly related note, over the weekend I caught most of
Dragonslayer (remember the old Disney film?) and realized that I
must write a paper about the queer aspects of the film, what with the romance between the androgynous Peter MacNicol and the boyish girl pretending to be a girlish boy to avoid the lottery to be sacrificed to the dragon. I love anything with confused and slipping gender roles.