“Dissertations as Fictions.” College English 31 (1980): 675-79.
The immediate impetus for this brief essay in College English was the ludicrously inadequate doctoral dissertation the late Jim Goldsmith wrote to earn his Ph.D. at the University of Florida. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and the movie The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) all played roles as well.
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