A few people have expressed interest in my Master’s Thesis, so I decided to make it openly available to anyone who is interested in reading it. The thesis is titled: Egotist EIMI: Cummings’ Russian Experience. It examines E.E. Cummings’ EIMI, a novel that has remained out of print for more than 30 years (with the exception of a section that Liveright published in a somewhat recent Cummings Anthology).
In about 10 years, EIMI will enter the public domain, and I think I am going to host it online at that point, whether or not Liveright ever gets around to publishing it. I have a second printing of the first edition at home that I will be scanning into digital form as a side project for the next several years.
Here’s a non-printable PDF of the thesis: link. I also included it as an enclosure with this post. I made it non-printable mainly because I don’t want people wasting paper on it. It’s copyrighted. If you use any bit of it for a paper, etc., please realize that it is unpublished and, as such, will most likely not hold much weight in the eyes of your teacher / professor. Other than that, I just ask that you credit me. If you work for Liveright and are considering republishing EIMI and would like to also include this thesis or part of this thesis in the publication, contact me (click on my picture in the left column of the site) and we’ll talk.
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