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Libraries, Literatures, and Archives (Paperback)
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Libraries, Literatures, and Archives (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science
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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.
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