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Libraries, Literatures, and Archives

By Sas Mays

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Libraries, Literatures, and Archives

By Sas Mays

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
308
Release Date:
2013-12-07
Publication Date:
2013-12-07
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0415843871
ISBN13:
9780415843874
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
599 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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