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David Attwell

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March 10, 2016 - Harry Ransom Center

Alison Frazier_The Saint Between Manuscript and PrintAlison 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 change. Focusing on the Italian peninsula between 1400 and 1600, authors analyze specific sites of intense cultural production and innovation. The volume invites further study of saints of all sorts—canonized, popularly recognized, or self-proclaimed—in the fluid media environment of early modernity. [Read more…] about Recent publications

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: Alfred Knopf, Alison K. Frazier, Barry Day, Carlton Lake collection, David Attwell, David Octavius Hill, George Macy Companies, incunables, J. M. Coetzee, John Bidwell, John Herrmann, Limited Editions Club, Morris Leopold Ernst, rare books, Robert Adamson, Sara Kosiba, Sara Stevenson

Research at the Ransom Center: “To Cape Town and back, via Mongolia”

January 7, 2014 - Abigail Cain

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 Professor of English at the University of York in the U.K., provides an in-depth look> at the development of Coetzee’s third novel. He visited the Ransom Center this year to explore Coetzee’s archive.

Coetzee, who was born in Cape Town and graduated from the University of Cape Town, enrolled in The University of Texas at Austin in 1965 to pursue his Ph.D. in English, linguistics, and Germanic languages.

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Cape Town, David Attwell, J. M. Coetzee, South Africa, University of Texas at Austin, Waiting for the Barbarians

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