Posted by Catherine on August 27, 2024 at 15:15:46 user clamont.
In Reply to: Ransome-related books posted by Neil on August 25, 2024 at 08:44:31:
Hi Neil
I found the following useful:
- "Signalling from Mars" (AR letters edited by Hugh Brogan)
- Ransome's "Portraits and Sepculations" - has quite a bit about his theories on writing and art (I quote them whenever I can in my creative writing/English lit courses)
- Julian Lovelock's "Swallows, Amazons and Coots" (in fact, I have read it twice and used it in my assignments)
- Alan Kennedy's "A Thoroughly Mischievous Person" (but this is very much "psychobiographical literary criticism" (OK, psychobabble) and a lot about symbolism that seems to be a bit far-fetched to some people, although I admire his bravery in tackling some of these topics).
- Margaret Ratcliffe's "Collecting our Thoughts" (a collection of essays on AR, but it also has an AR essay on "Bookings and 'Under Twelves'"
On joining TARS, you can get access to the most recent editions of "Mixed Moss" and Signals online (from 2020 onwards), but you have to borrow the earlier ones from the library or buy them. (Actually, I forgot you can borrow them- I might borrow the ones I am missing!) There is a catalogue of the Literary Weekend Transcripts, but the transcripts themselves again are not online. You can also find a couple of the individual articles and the indexes for Mixed Moss on the All Things Ransome website.
Hopefully that's enough to keep you busy for a while!
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