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Shelving books? : Representations of the library in contemporary texts
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dc.contributor.author | Hutton, Margaret-Anne | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-02T13:30:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-02T13:30:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-05-15 | |
dc.identifier | 244332810 | |
dc.identifier | 5c108dc5-6146-4004-9b49-036b74d2b4f1 | |
dc.identifier | 85019598342 | |
dc.identifier | 000401349500003 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hutton , 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.2017.0219 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1744-1854 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/10900 | |
dc.description.abstract | Established 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.extent | 219446 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Comparative Critical Studies | en |
dc.subject | Library | en |
dc.subject | Digitization | en |
dc.subject | Codex | en |
dc.subject | (un)heimlich | en |
dc.subject | Z719 Libraries (General) | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | BDC | en |
dc.subject | R2C | en |
dc.subject.lcc | Z719 | en |
dc.title | Shelving books? : Representations of the library in contemporary texts | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. French | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3366/ccs.2017.0219 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2017-06-01 |
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