June 27, 2018, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators by Enora Lessinger I visited the Kazuo Ishiguro archive at the Harry Ransom Center in June 2017, a few months before Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. This British writer of Japanese descent is famous for the suggestive quality of his writing, and in particular for his self-deceived,… read more
April 17, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England I visited the Harry Ransom Center last July to research bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, grammars, and language manuals printed in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
February 8, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingFellows Find: “Archipelago,” Jim Crace’s last novel that never was Image: Jim Crace’s handwritten note on the “Archipelago” folder in his archive. When I came to the Harry Ransom Center in August 2017 to research in the Jim Crace papers, the materials I was most curious to view were those related to Crace’s unpublished novel Archipelago.
