Narrating from the Archive
Marco Codebo
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Description for Narrating from the Archive
Hardcover. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 240 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
This book discusses the relationship between the archive and the novel from Early Modernity to the digital age. The encounter between archival and novelistic discourses results in the archival novel, a fictional genre where the archive frames the readers' apprehension of the text. Archival fictions are self-reflexive texts that foreground the twofold role the archive plays in the composition of novels; providing novelists with reliable knowledge and organizing the written materials (notes, records, plans) that make writing possible. While the nineteenth century archival novels rely on the archive to guarantee their claims to truth, in the twentieth century they tend ... Read more
This book discusses the relationship between the archive and the novel from Early Modernity to the digital age. The encounter between archival and novelistic discourses results in the archival novel, a fictional genre where the archive frames the readers' apprehension of the text. Archival fictions are self-reflexive texts that foreground the twofold role the archive plays in the composition of novels; providing novelists with reliable knowledge and organizing the written materials (notes, records, plans) that make writing possible. While the nineteenth century archival novels rely on the archive to guarantee their claims to truth, in the twentieth century they tend ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611474114
SKU
V9781611474114
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99-15
About Marco Codebo
Marco Codebo is assistant professor of French and Italian at Long Island University.
Reviews for Narrating from the Archive
In order to explore the relationship between the novel and the archive from early modernity to the dawn of the digital age, Codeb (French and Italian, Long Island U., New York) focuses on the archival novel, a fiction genre in which the narrative stores records, bureaucratic writing informs language, and the archive functions as a semiotic frame that structures the ... Read more