{"product_id":"libraries-literatures-and-archives-sas-mays-9780415843874","title":"Libraries, Literatures, and Archives","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sas Mays\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415843871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415843874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Sas Mays","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136119058687,"sku":"9780415843874","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d46dbbd5-0da7-4487-8fd2-0e0afd40fdd3.jpg?v=1770160635","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/libraries-literatures-and-archives-sas-mays-9780415843874","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}