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Libraries, Literatures, and Archives

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Archival Encounters
archival theory
Archive Fever
archive studies
book history
Brand UK
cataloging
Category=DSB
Category=GBC
Category=GL
Category=GLZ
Category=GTC
Category=JBCC
Category=NH
Category=WTHM
Circuitous
collection development
Colonial Library
cultural memory studies
De Man
De Meuron
Deep Space
digital humanities methods
digital library
Disorderly Order
Encyclopaedic Principle
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
eq_travel
Fiction Classifi Cation
Folk Archive
gendered knowledge spaces
historical analysis of library institutions
index
information science research
literary studies
Metonymic Series
Multiple Existence
Nara's Diary
Nara’s Diary
National Library
Open Access Mode
Print Fi Ction
queer archival practices
Queer Archive
Sebald's Narrator
Sebald’s Narrator
Swimming Pool Library
Textual Allegories
Twentysix Gasoline Stations
Uncle's Collection
Uncle’s Collection
Work's Actual Modes
Work’s Actual Modes

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415843874
  • Weight: 730g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Dec 2013
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture – both a site of positive knowledge and a site of error, confusion, and loss. Nevertheless, in literary studies and in the humanities, including book history, the figure of the library remains in many senses under-researched. This collection brings together established and up-and-coming researchers from a number of practices – literary and cultural studies, gender studies, book history, philosophy, visual culture, and contemporary art –with an effective historical sweep ranging from the time of Sumer to the present day.

In the context of the rise of archive studies, this book attends specifically and meta-critically to the figure of the library as a particular archival form, considering the traits that constitute (or fail to constitute) the library as institution or idea, and questions its relations to other accumulative modes, such as the archive in its traditional sense, the museum, or the filmic or digital archive. Across their diversity, and in addition to their international standard of research and writing, each chapter is unified by commitment to analyzing the complex cultural politics of the library form.
About
Sas Mays is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Critical Theory in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, London. His overall research concerns mediations of cultural memory through technological and archival forms, from the textual to the visual, and the analogue to the digital.