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Virginia Woolf

NOT SPEED READING: The slow pleasures of research

March 25, 2021 - Harry Ransom Center

by JULIA PANKO
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. 

Lately, I have been dreaming of archives. I have never visited the Harry Ransom Center in person, but I recently perused its finding aids and made a checklist for a future trip. Noting the items from the Virginia Woolf Collection that I want to study, I was reminded of Woolf’s essay “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia.” In it, Woolf wrote, “We like to feel . . . that other hands have been before us, smoothing the leather until the corners are rounded and blunt, turning the pages until they are yellow and dog’s-eared. We like to summon before us the ghosts of those old readers.”[1] I daydream about examining the Ransom Center’s collection of books from Woolf’s personal library, summoning her ghost as I survey the physical traces left by her reading. [Read more…] about NOT SPEED READING: The slow pleasures of research

Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archival research, archive, Virginia Woolf, What is Research?

ABOUT JULIA PANKO

Julia Panko is an Associate Professor of English at Weber State University, where she directs the Literature and Textual Studies program. She is the author of Out of Print: Mediating Information in the Novel and the Book (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020).

A very good year for Modernism

November 14, 2018 - Leigh Hilford

An interview with Bill Goldstein

[Read more…] about A very good year for Modernism

Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellowships, literature, modernism, Virginia Woolf

Los pentimenti de Gabriel García Márquez

October 19, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

One of Gabriel García Márquez's passports. / Pasaporte de Gabriel García Márquez.

Bajo las pinceladas finales de las grandes pinturas, debajo de la superficie, existen en ocasiones marcas de duda, líneas escondidas y colores suprimidos. Estas pinceladas casi invisibles se llaman pentimenti: arrepentimientos, rectificaciones, remordimientos. Me gusta la palabra pentimenti [Read more…] about Los pentimenti de Gabriel García Márquez

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archive, archivo de Gabriel García Márquez, autor, borradores, correspondence, Ernest Hemingway, escritura, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Jorge Luis Borges, Latin America, Latinoamérica, literature, manuscritos, Pentimenti, proceso de escritura, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, writing process

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