James Joyce

June 16, 2015 - Stephanie Jones

Fellows Find: The Christine Brooke-Rose archive

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, Authors, Bletchley Park, Books, Christine Brooke-Rose, Christine Brooke-Rose Society, Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation, Ezra Pound, Fellows Find, Fellowships, James Joyce, literature, modernism, Natalie Ferris, Research, Samuel Beckett, Stephanie Jones, The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies

Stephanie Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in the English and Creative Writing Department at Aberystwyth University. At the Ransom Center, she analyzed the Christine Brooke-Rose papers for her dissertation, which is a single-author study on the writer, looking at the neglect of her work as a British author by the industry. Jones’s research… read more

June 9, 2014 - Alicia Dietrich

From the Outside In: Two portraits of James Joyce

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Desmond Harmsworth, drawings, Guide to the Windows, James Joyce, literature, portraits, Wyndham Lewis

The atria on the first floor of the Ransom Center are surrounded by windows featuring etched reproductions of images from the collections. The windows offer visitors a hint of the cultural treasures to be discovered inside. From the Outside In is a series that highlights some of these images and… read more

April 12, 2012 - Nicole Davis

Decades later, current headlines echo controversies addressed in Morris Ernst collection

Filed Under: Cataloging, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archives, Arthur Schnitzler, birth control, Casanova’s Homecoming, censorship, et al. v. Committee for Industrial Organization et al., Frank Hague, Hague, James Joyce, Josh Levitas, labor unions, Mayor, Morris Ernst, Radclyffe Hall, Rob Berry, The Well of Loneliness, too big to fail, Ulysses, United States v. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce, United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries

Through a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a team of archivists and student interns has been working to organize and catalog the papers of attorney Morris Leopold Ernst since September 2009. The collection is now open for research, and a finding aid is available online. Morris… read more