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dc.contributor.authorHutton, Margaret-Anne
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-02T13:30:07Z
dc.date.available2017-06-02T13:30:07Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-15
dc.identifier244332810
dc.identifier5c108dc5-6146-4004-9b49-036b74d2b4f1
dc.identifier85019598342
dc.identifier000401349500003
dc.identifier.citationHutton , M-A 2017 , ' Shelving books? Representations of the library in contemporary texts ' , Comparative Critical Studies , vol. 14 , no. 1 , pp. 7-27 . https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2017.0219en
dc.identifier.issn1744-1854
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10900
dc.description.abstractEstablished for over two decades, archive studies have often conflated the archive and the library, leading to the theoretical neglect of the latter. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, however, critical and historical works on the library have been on the increase. At the same time, a body of fictional texts offers a very specific representation of the library in the digital age. The literary libraries discussed here – a sample published post-2000, drawn from seven national literatures and representing various genres – champion the codex and construct the library as an affective, nostalgic material space. Acknowledging the ubiquity of digitization whilst nonetheless eschewing a simplistic material/ digital binary, they rework familiar tropes such as the universal library, the library destroyed, and the library as a symbol or repository of cultural memory. Finally, these are spaces of (gendered) familial psychic dramas, tracing oedipal conflicts, family romances and troubled transgenerational legacies.
dc.format.extent219446
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofComparative Critical Studiesen
dc.subjectLibraryen
dc.subjectDigitizationen
dc.subjectCodexen
dc.subject(un)heimlichen
dc.subjectZ719 Libraries (General)en
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccZ719en
dc.titleShelving books? : Representations of the library in contemporary textsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Frenchen
dc.identifier.doi10.3366/ccs.2017.0219
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2017-06-01


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