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Fellows Find: Manuscripts reveal internal battles of Civil War novelists writing outside the “moonlight and magnolias” school

December 3, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Scott aged 16, perhaps dressed as a French musketeer to please her mother, who, Scott said, "stoutly maintained the Huguenot tradition in our family." Nevertheless, Scott frequently played the man in dressing-up games with her cousins.

Dr. Niall Munro, Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University, was a fellow at the Ransom Center during the summer of 2015. His research was supported by the Fred W. Todd Southern Literature Endowment Fund. Munro is at work on a book entitled “Our only ‘felt’ history”: American modernism and the Civil War. While at the Ransom Center, Munro accessed the collections of Evelyn Scott and Stark Young. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Manuscripts reveal internal battles of Civil War novelists writing outside the “moonlight and magnolias” school

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: American modernism, Civil War, Evelyn Scott, Fellows Find, literature, novel, Southern literature, Stark Young, William Faulkner

Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez

October 22, 2015 - Megan Barnard

The cover of the carbon typescript of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba [No One Writes to the Colonel], 1957.
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Alguna vez  Gabriel García Márquez comentó que creía que la principal razón por la cual los escritores leen las novelas de otros, era para aprender cómo las escribieron.  Para el laureado con este Premio Nobel los libros tenían una importancia tremenda, y con frecuencia escribía o hablaba de los autores que más habían influido en él. [Read more…] about Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archives, collecting, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Manuscripts, William Faulkner, writers

The company we keep: Gabriel García Márquez’s literary influences

October 22, 2015 - Megan Barnard

A bronze bust of Gabriel García Márquez by artist Kate Murray. Photo by Pete Smith.
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Gabriel García Márquez once said that he believed the main reason writers read the novels of others is to learn for themselves how the books had been written. Books were tremendously important to this Nobel laureate, and he wrote and spoke frequently about the writers who most influenced his own work. [Read more…] about The company we keep: Gabriel García Márquez’s literary influences

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, Books, collecting, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Manuscripts, William Faulkner, writers

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

Gabriel García Márquez’s Pentimenti

October 19, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Gabriel García Márquez working on "One Hundred Years of Solitude." Photograph by Guillermo Angulo Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center Gabriel García Márquez revisando el texto de "Cien años de soledad". Fotografía por Guillermo Angulo Imagen cortesía del Centro Harry Ransom

Underneath the final brushstrokes of great paintings, below the surface, there are sometimes marks of doubt, hidden lines, and suppressed colors. These nearly invisible brushstrokes are called pentimenti—repentances, compunctions, remorses. I like the word pentimenti because it evokes a sense of drawn-out struggle and internal debate. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez’s Pentimenti

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archive, correspondence, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Jorge Luis Borges, Latin America, literature, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, writing process

75 Days. 75 Years: List details suggested writers for “Gone With The Wind”

November 8, 2013 - Jennifer Tisdale

List of suggested writers for Gone With The Wind, ca. 1937.

 For 75 days, the Harry Ransom Center is raising funds for its 2014 exhibition The Making of Gone With The Wind. Opening on September 9, 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind will reveal stories about the making of this quintessential film from Hollywood’s Golden Age and illustrate why it remains influential and controversial 75 years after it was released. Items from film producer David O. Selznick’s archive provide a behind-the-scenes look into the making of the film. Donations will help support outreach, additional exhibition tours, a published exhibition catalog, and complimentary programming and presentations.

 

Although at least 14 writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, worked on Gone With The Wind, Sidney Howard’s version was the basis for the screenplay, and he received sole credit. Writers were often “typecast” as being particularly good with dialog for example, or story structure. This list of suggested writers for Gone With The Wind also mentions working methods and personal habits.

 

For Sinclair Lewis, notes indicate that he “might be either a little too political-minded or a little too gin-minded for this job,” and William Faulkner is characterized as not very reliable.

 

The Making of Gone With The Wind will include over 300 original items from film producer David O. Selznick’s archive housed at the Ransom Center, including photographs, storyboards, correspondence, production records, audition footage, and fan mail. The exhibition will also feature gowns worn by Vivien Leigh as the beautiful and ambitious Scarlett O’Hara. The newly conserved costumes will be displayed together for the first time in more than 25 years.

 

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List of suggested writers for Gone With The Wind, ca. 1937.
List of suggested writers for Gone With The Wind, ca. 1937.
List of suggested writers for Gone With The Wind, ca. 1937.
List of suggested writers for Gone With The Wind, ca. 1937.

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: David O. Selznick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gone with the Wind, Lewis Sinclair, Sidney Howard, The Making of Gone With The Wind, William Faulkner

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