Building and deconstructing a library of world literature

Abstract

The seminar examined the analytical and historical distinction between the universal, the national and the global in literature, using the notable example of Swiss scholar Martin Bodmer.

Building and deconstructing a library of world literature

Abstract

Speaker(s)

Jérôme David

Events

What is a library?

Mental shelves

Literary pantheons of stone and paper

Atlas of Memory

From reader to author : the birth of French libraries for women

The dream of the perfect library

Translations of the Koran over the centuries : from electronic library to mental librar…

How to classify a library

In search of the lost library : Galen in Paris

What are catalogs thinking about?

Building the school canon, building literature

The universal book, or the ideal, ghostly order of the world

Building and deconstructing a library of world literature

Archive theory

Appraisals and reappraisals : the question of the musical canon since 1945

Library of great adventures and SF shelving in the corridor : collection and canonicity…

Libraries and power

Librarian's life

Cannon and oblivion

Translations and new libraries in wartime : the case of the German Occupation (1940-194…

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