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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August 2017 to research in the Jim Crace papers, the materials I was most curious to view were those related to Crace’s unpublished novel Archipelago.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

Fellows find: Letters of St. John Ervine, playwright for a tumultuous Ireland

November 1, 2016 - Connal Parr

Connal Parr in the Reading and Viewing Room at the Harry Ransom Center

I visited the Harry Ransom Center for two weeks to access the collection of St. John Ervine (1883–1971), an enigmatic, occasionally-forgotten figure who nonetheless casts a spell over a select band of Irish scholars and historians. His personal story fuses both the culture and politics of his Ireland. [Read more…] about Fellows find: Letters of St. John Ervine, playwright for a tumultuous Ireland

Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Fellows Find, Fellowships, George Bernard Shaw, St. John Ervine

Fellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings

June 8, 2016 - Jennifer Rosenblitt

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings, undated, doodling of fauns and satyrs. From ‘Sketches’ by E.E. Cummings. Copyright (©) by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust.
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It’s spring: the “mud-luscious”’ and “puddle-wonderful” season whistled in by E. E. Cummings’s most famous poetic creature. He is the little, lame, queer, old man selling balloons: “the goat-footed balloonMan.” [Read more…] about Fellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: A. C. Swinburne, Classicism, classics, E. E. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings, Fellows Find, Fellowships, Greek mythology, juvenilia, Oscar Wilde, Pan, poetry, Poets

Fellows Find: David O. Selznick constructs a “natural beauty”

May 31, 2016 - Milan Hain

Ingrid Bergman in a publicity image for Intermezzo. From the David O. Selznick collection at the Harry Ransom Center.

Producer of movies and star identities

[Read more…] about Fellows Find: David O. Selznick constructs a “natural beauty”

Filed Under: Film, Research + Teaching Tagged With: authenticity, Casablanca, David O. Selznick, Fellows Find, Fellowships, film history, Gaslight, Gregg Toland, Ingrid Bergman, Intermezzo: A Love Story, Kay Brown, naturalness, producer, Research, Spellbound, star identities

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