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Doris Lessing

Thoughts during a pandemic on Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf, and what ‘it’ is

October 22, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

by JAMES ARNETT

“Why was it so hard to see while it was happening that that was what was happening?”
—URSULA K. LeGUIN, In and Out [1]

“What’s ‘it’–what do you mean by ‘it’?”
“O, anything–I mean–you know what I mean.”
—VIRGINIA WOOLF, Kew Gardens typescript

The walls have closed in in my Tennessee home. I sometimes stand up blinking from my screen and walk from room to room, unsure of what I’m looking for or doing. My corgi, Phineas Finn, is no help, certain that if I am at home I am at his service. I stand in my front window often, looking at the unchanging suburban street. I retreat to the refuge of books. [Read more…] about Thoughts during a pandemic on Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf, and what ‘it’ is

Filed Under: Authors, Featured1 Tagged With: archive, Doris Lessing, literature, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature

ABOUT JAMES ARNETT
James Arnett, PhD, is the UC Foundation Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and a former Harry Ransom Center Fellow.

Celebrating 100 years of Doris Lessing

October 22, 2019 - Harry Ransom Center

Doris Lessing

Nobel Prize–winning author Doris Lessing was born one hundred years ago, on October 22, 1919. [Read more…] about Celebrating 100 years of Doris Lessing

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Doris Lessing, literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, science fiction

Commitment to collecting

December 9, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Going back to the origins of research libraries, there is a long history of scholars building collections to suit personal interests, constructing around themselves an athenaeum of books that supported their individual research goals.

[Read more…] about Commitment to collecting

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archive, archives, B. S. Johnson, collecting, collection strengths, collections, David Mamet, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Hardwick, humanities, Mark Collins, Norman Mailer, Penelope Lively, Research

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