Alison K. Frazier, Editor The Saint between Manuscript and Print in Italy, 1400–1600 University of Toronto Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, July 2015 The 12 essays in this volume identify mutually interactive developments in media and saints’ cults at a time and in a place when both underwent profound… read more
David Attwell
Research at the Ransom Center: “To Cape Town and back, via Mongolia”
Perhaps one of the most distinctive features of J. M. Coetzee’s 1981 novel Waiting for the Barbarians is the setting—an imaginary empire, one lacking a specified place and time. Yet, when Coetzee penned the first draft of the novel, it was set in Cape Town, South Africa. David Attwell, a… read more