November 20, 2017, Filed Under: Research + TeachingHarriet de Onís y la traducción de la literatura latinoamericana En diciembre del 1948, el New York Times publicó un artículo sobre la traductora Harriet de Onís con el título “La señora de Onís traduce el folclore latinoamericano, e incorpora recetas latinas en su cocina”.
November 9, 2017, Filed Under: ArtExploring Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” in the Ransom Center’s collection On January 6, 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a powerful State of the Union address. In it the president explained his decision to supply arms and materials to the Allied war effort. Occurring 11 months prior to U.S. entry into World War II, Roosevelt’s speech described the support as a… read more
November 1, 2017, Filed Under: Research + TeachingBorges, Beowulf, and Texas How did an Argentine poet like Jorge Luis Borges end up reading and writing about Old English poetry?
October 23, 2017, Filed Under: UncategorizedHarry Ransom Center acquires Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin is now home to the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry Collection. The collection was started in the early 1970s by Dean Echenberg, a flight surgeon during the Vietnam War who later became the director of disease control for the… read more
October 23, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts“The Attempt to Keep Day and Night Together” An interview with Dean F. Echenberg on his war poetry collection The Ransom Center is the new home for the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection, a collection of more than 6,500 volumes of poetry related to people’s experiences with war. The collection was begun in the early 1970s by… read more
October 19, 2017, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsA baroness and her bookshelves in an English parish church In May, the Ransom Center acquired two volumes of Ambrose’s Opera (or Works) in Latin. The edition was published in Basel in 1567. What is most compelling about these particular books, however, is less the writings of the Church Father, as such, and more their story as books.
