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Fellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators

June 27, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center

Photo of Kazuo Ishiguro in London, 2009, at home, by Isabelle Boccon-Gibod

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, unreliable narrators. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellows Find, Fellowships, Kazuo Ishiguro, literature, Manuscripts

Fellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England

April 17, 2018 - Andrew Keener

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. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Dictionaries, Fellows Find, Fellowships, Renaissance

Fellows Find: “Archipelago,” Jim Crace’s last novel that never was

February 8, 2018 - Diletta De Cristofaro

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August 2017 to research in the Jim Crace papers, the materials I was most curious to view were those related to Crace’s unpublished novel Archipelago. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: “Archipelago,” Jim Crace’s last novel that never was

Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf fellowship, Fellows Find, Fellowships, Jim Crace, literature

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