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Highlights from an unprecedented year

December 31, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

It was not the year we anticipated, hoped for, or a year we would want to repeat. The first rumblings of the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, escalated in February, and eventually erupted in our community in March when the Center closed its doors to in-person visits and staff began working remotely. What happened next was a natural shift to expanding the Center’s online presence throughout the year. [Read more…] about Highlights from an unprecedented year

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Modified research services offered remotely

December 14, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center continues to monitor the local and global developments related to COVID-19, as well as changes in university guidelines. The University of Texas at Austin will be closed from Dec. 23 through Jan. 3, 2020. Ransom Center research services will not be offered during that time.

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75 YEARS HENCE: Arthur Miller adapts Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for radio

November 19, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

by JANINE BARCHAS
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation.  [Read more…] about 75 YEARS HENCE: Arthur Miller adapts Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for radio

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Research, What is Research?

JANINE BARCHAS
Janine Barchas is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Lost Books of Jane Austen, which led to an exhibition entitled “Austen in Austin” at the Ransom Center in the fall of 2019. She has also contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Lit Hub.

Learning how to read again

October 14, 2020 - Aaron T. Pratt

This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. 

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Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: RansomResearch, Research, What is Research?

Many Years Later: Three Readings of One Hundred Years of Solitude

June 5, 2020 - Monte Monreal

With equal parts clarity and gilded nostalgia, I recall the first time I read the opening line of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” Often cited on lists of literature’s great first lines, the unusual configuration of words came tearing off the page. Who begins a story with, “Many years later”? [Read more…] about Many Years Later: Three Readings of One Hundred Years of Solitude

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How Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude became a classic

May 30, 2020 - Alvaro Santana-Acuna

ascent to glory cover
Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was published on May 30, 1967. A new book by Ransom Center guest curator and Whitman College assistant professor Álvaro Santana-Acuña–Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic (Columbia University Press, August 2020), explores how the novel achieved success and what it reveals about how a work of literature becomes a classic.

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