Libraries, Literatures, and Archives
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Libraries, Literatures, and Archives

  1. 290 pages
  2. English
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Libraries, Literatures, and Archives

About this book

Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture ā€“ 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 ā€“ literary and cultural studies, gender studies, book history, philosophy, visual culture, and contemporary art ā€“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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Copyright Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: Unpacking the Library
  11. 1 Index
  12. 2 ā€˜Under a Heap of Dust They Buried Lye, within a Vault of Some Small Libraryā€™: Margaret Cavendish and the Gendered Space of the Seventeenth-Century Library
  13. 3 Outside the Archive: The Image of the Library in Hitchcock
  14. 4 Reading in the Library of Catastrophe: W. G. Sebaldā€™s The Rings of Saturn
  15. 5 Agendas and Aesthetics in the Transformations of the Codex in Early Modern England
  16. 6 Magical Values in Recent Romances of the Archive
  17. 7 Classifying Fictions: Libraries and Information Sciences and the Practice of Complete Reading
  18. 8 Autobiobibliographies: For Lovers of Libraries
  19. 9 ā€˜That Library of Uncatalogued Pleasureā€™: Queerness, Desire, and the Archive in Contemporary Gay Fiction
  20. 10 The Archive, the Event, and the Impression
  21. 11 Cataloguing Architecture: The Library of the Architect
  22. 12 Reading Folk Archive: On the Utopian Dimension of the Artistsā€™ Book
  23. 13 The Archive and the Library in V. Y. Mudimbeā€™s The Rift
  24. 14 Digital Libraries and Fantasies of Totality
  25. Contributors
  26. Index