I recently had the opportunity to sit down and revise my senior thesis, which was on Jorge Luis Borges and intertextuality. I’ve made some changes to the text while revising, which cut out about ten pages of text:

  • Cleaned up a lot of overly wordy sentences. For some reason I used the word “thus” a lot in this paper (and another from the same semester I came across recently).

  • Deleted a few pages worth of pointless commentary about the state of popular fiction.

  • Also cut out some biographical information about Borges and Kristeva.

I am pretty happy with how it looks currently. I wish I knew more about intertextuality, semiotics, and Borges in general at the time. Using what I know now about Barthes, Kristeva, etc I am sure I would be able to write a much better, and significantly longer, paper.  Hopefully in graduate school I will be able to write a lot more about Borges.

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