Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page

Dever, M

Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page

Dever, M

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Publisher:: Palgrave
Publication Type:: Book
Citation:: 2019, pp. 1 - 121
Issue Date:: 2019-12-15

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dc.contributor.author	Dever, M https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1177-8646	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-12-15	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2019, pp. 1 - 121	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-137-49885-4	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/137873
dc.description.abstract	The emergence of digital technologies in the realm of archives has enlivened our understandings of archival materialities and lent a new intensity to our engagements with the archived page by prompting us to consider the potential of paper and the page in ways that we have hitherto largely ignored. Paper, Materiality and Archived Page responds to this provocation by setting out an approach or an orientation to ‘thinking through paper’. Critically, it questions what work the archived page does if it is more than an invisible or transparent support to text. Three exemplary case studies are offered on the letters of Greta Garbo, the messy archival remains of Australian writer Eve Langley and the letters and manuscripts of English poet Valentine Ackland. Together they demonstrate how approaches grounded in concerns with materiality and matter can shift how we understand archival research and what we accept as archival ‘evidence’. They also reveal the emergent capacities of the paper page.	en_US
dc.publisher	Palgrave	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1057/978-1-137-49886-1	en_US
dc.title	Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page	en_US
dc.type	Book
utslib.location	London	en_US
utslib.for	2102 Curatorial and Related Studies	en_US
utslib.for	0807 Library and Information Studies	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Teaching and Learning)
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Abstract:

The emergence of digital technologies in the realm of archives has enlivened our understandings of archival materialities and lent a new intensity to our engagements with the archived page by prompting us to consider the potential of paper and the page in ways that we have hitherto largely ignored. Paper, Materiality and Archived Page responds to this provocation by setting out an approach or an orientation to ‘thinking through paper’. Critically, it questions what work the archived page does if it is more than an invisible or transparent support to text. Three exemplary case studies are offered on the letters of Greta Garbo, the messy archival remains of Australian writer Eve Langley and the letters and manuscripts of English poet Valentine Ackland. Together they demonstrate how approaches grounded in concerns with materiality and matter can shift how we understand archival research and what we accept as archival ‘evidence’. They also reveal the emergent capacities of the paper page.

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