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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

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