And all the scholars know is that it's perfectly preserved

[sovay]

Thank you, stephen_dedman. You do know the answers are much less funny if they're something I might vaguely write . . .

The Pretentious Dissertation Title Mini-Quiz by MagnaMaxima
Username
Your Field	AnthropologyClassicsEthnic StudiesHistoryLinguisticsEnglish LiteratureGender StudiesReligionPhilosophy
Your Dissertation's Pretentious Title	The Future of the Future:
Your Dissertation's Pretentious Subtitle	Toward a Systematic Understanding of Proto-Indo-European Swear Words

Comments

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

I got nothin' because it's true. :D

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

Well, that's no good: "Queering Gender: A Comparative Evaluation."

Incidentally, if I place myself in History, I have the same result you had.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I got: "Becoming Tacitus: The Politics of Creation"

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

Heh. The title it gave me was nowhere near as pretentious as the title of my actual dissertation. The official title, anyway. (The real title is "Lea's Big Book of Gay Kings.")

[sovay]

"Becoming Tacitus: The Politics of Creation"

That's pretty awesome.

[sovay]

The official title, anyway. (The real title is "Lea's Big Book of Gay Kings.")

That should so be the title it's published under . . .

(What is the pretentious official title?)

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

That's a brilliant icon.

Anyway. "The Peasant Economy: Aeschylus and the Contestation of Authority." The first time, anyway. After that it kept getting stuck in something unrelated.

[sovay]

"The Peasant Economy: Aeschylus and the Contestation of Authority."

I think this title and subtitle belong to different dissertations. Possibly also fields of study.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I got: "Becoming Tacitus: The Implications for Electronica."

[sovay]

"Becoming Tacitus: The Implications for Electronica."

You know, there really should have been nothing on this earth that could make me want to put together a techno remix of I, Claudius . . .

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

It's "'A Sort of Black Chapters': Historical Representation and the Interrogation of Power in Sixteenth-Century Poetic Depictions of Richard II."

The Gay Kings part (which predates the actual dissertation by several years) really only works plurally if you assume that Henry IV was a closet case. But that's okay, because he totally was. ;)

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's from PhD Comics, (http://www.phdcomics.com/) a scarily accurate webcomic about grad school...

[sovay]

It's "'A Sort of Black Chapters': Historical Representation and the Interrogation of Power in Sixteenth-Century Poetic Depictions of Richard II."

I bow down before your pretentious title. Yeah.

. . . I'd still totally read the book, though.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Hmm... in anthro, I got "Visions of the Past: Toward a Systematic Understanding of Proto-Indo-European Swear Words."

I suppose we'd have lots to talk about, then. ;-)

[sovay]

I suppose we'd have lots to talk about, then.

You got the better-matched surtitle. "The Future of the Future" sounds like aspects and tenses.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Likewise: not the Big Book of Gay Kings, which is awesome, but the failure to match the pretentiousness of my actual dissertation (thesis, even - which is pretentious in itself, not to mention that even my discipline was too pretentious for the code).

[sovay]

the pretentiousness of my actual dissertation (thesis, even - which is pretentious in itself, not to mention that even my discipline was too pretentious for the code).

Now I'm curious.

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Because someday I shall publish it *crosses fingers* and then you can! :D

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

*loves Sellar & Yeatman icon*

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Nah, not interesting, just pretentious (and a real conversation stopper): it's in Medieval French, and the title is The use of religious vocabulary in non-religious contexts in the octosyllabic verse romances of the 12th and 13th centuries.

[sovay]

Nah, not interesting, just pretentious (and a real conversation stopper)

Actually, between the vocabulary out of context and the fact that I know nothing about octosyllabic verse romances, I'd read it . . .