Shelving Books?: Representations of the Library in Contemporary Texts.

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...

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Publicado en:Comparative Critical Studies Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 7 - 28
Autor principal: Hutton, Margaret-Anne
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Publicado: Edinburgh University Press Feb2017
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