Writing my PhD Thesis in Humanities

  TIMING OF MY THESIS:   July 2022: Literature Review 1-15 July: Patrick McGrath’s New Gothic &Psychoanalysis as an approach to McGrath’s narratives 16-31 July: Modernism as an influence on McGrath August 2022: Methodology 1-20 August: Research Framework & Bakhtin’s Dialogism, Chronotope, the Carnivalesque and the Grotesque 21- 30 August: Bakhtin’s Early Essays as the chosen methodology. September- December 2022: Asylum : The I-For-Another Relationship-Doubling September: The unreliable narrator and his victims October: The unvoiced female character November: The disturbed sculptor: a Bluebeard figure December: Edits and Bibliography January- April 2023: Port Mungo : The I-For-Myself             January 2023: The artist creating a self-mythology             February 2023: The Gothic trope of incest     ...

  TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS:   Title: Haunted Artists in Patrick McGrath’s New Gothic: A Bakhtinian Approach Table of Contents: 1.       Introduction 1.1. Research Background and Patrick McGrath’s Biography 1.2. Research Problems 1.3. Research Question 1.4. Thesis Structure 2.       Literature Review 2.1. Patrick McGrath’s New Gothic 2.2. Psychoanalysis as an Approach to McGrath’s Narratives 2.3. Modernism as an Influence on McGrath 3.       Methodology 3.1 Research Framework 3.2 Bakhtin’s Dialogism, Chronotope, the Carnivalesque and the Grotesque 3.3 Bakhtin’s Early Essays as the Chosen Methodology.        4.   Asylum : The I-For-Another Relationship-Doubling 4.1. The Unreliable Narrator and his Victims 4.2. The Unvoiced Female Character 4.3. The Disturbed Sculptor: a Bluebeard Figure        5. ...

  1.       Audience: Who am I writing for: committee, advisor, intellectual community, myself? Right now, I am going to begin to write for the intellectual community of my field, although my goal is also to explain my research to readers who are interested in the Gothic literature I analyse, even if they are not scholars. So, I would like to write for both academics and non-academics. My idea is to see my thesis as my story, and my sources are used to enrich my storytelling. My focus is on the narratives of the British author Patrick McGrath, who writes the so-called New Gothic within the Gothic literature genre. 2.       Context: Where am I writing from my university, my discipline, my cohort? I am going to write my thesis from the library of the University of the Basque Country and at home. I have already planned the chapters I am going to begin developing, and they are a continuation of the MLitt thesis I wrote in...