Documenting a process

There's nothing to writing one's master thesis if not appreciating the process. I've just started writing mine and at the same time found an irresistible need to explore what is actually going on while writing a larger project – and a very important one of that – like this.

I have experienced the need to explore the process as such, which is why I've started a blog documenting my findings along the way. This is not only helpful in my own sorting of knowledge and building of an argument but will, hopefully, also be of interest to you. The journey to the finish line of my study life can be found over here. And I hope that you won't hesitate asking, commenting or giving me a new angle on the subject, a tip or just a cheer.  

The main idea of my thesis is showing how literature is actually a way to take the temperature of the society. And when I look around me, I see stress in all sorts of different forms and areas. 

I’m not going to explore how and why we feel stress. Others have done that a lot better than me. I am, however, going to explore how stress is a symptom of a society in distress – and how, ultimately, this distress shows in literature. This literature thesis will, therefore, be methodically based in more than one area: sociology, cultural sciences, literature, physiology and psychology. And it will, if succesful, be an example on how literature is not just entertainment, but a remain of a time, maybe our time. If society is the body, literature is on of the symptoms: A way to understand how we live, now and in the future. 

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