Between aura and access: artefactuality, institutionality, and the allure of the archival

This article analyses narratives inspired by the institutional emergence of the literary archive. It focuses in particular on what historian Arlette Farge has described as the “allure of the archives”: the elusive immediacy of encounters with artefactual remnants of the past. Key to this experience...

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1. Verfasser: Sommer, Tim (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 23. September 2020
In: Anglia
Year: 2020, Jahrgang: 138, Heft: 3, Pages: 384-403
ISSN:1865-8938
DOI:10.1515/ang-2020-0035
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