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10. ‘I am Already Historical’: In the Archive
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Sean O’Brien
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Contents vii
- Notes on Contributors ix
- Preface xiii
- 1. Introduction: Poetry, Theory, Archives 1
- 2. T. S. Eliot and Derek Mahon: A Tale of Two Archives 25
- 3. Archival Poetics: Containing Multitudes 46
- 4. Digital Baedecker: A Feminist Experiment with Mina Loy’s Archive 63
- 5. Louis MacNeice and His Archives 80
- 6. On Efficiency: John Updike’s Poetry Archives 92
- 7. Sylvia Plath’s Library: The Marginal Archive 111
- 8. ‘Library of Opaque Memory’: Spectral Archives in Brandon Som, Mai Der Vang and Bhanu Kapil 124
- 9. Opening the Box: Exploring the Bloodaxe Archive 143
- 10. ‘I am Already Historical’: In the Archive 159
- 11. The Archive and the Mirror 169
- 12. AA(A), or Affect, Archives and Anecdotes 182
- 13. Musée des Fragments: The Secret Memories of Ordinary Things 196
- Further Reading 205
- Index 209
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Contents vii
- Notes on Contributors ix
- Preface xiii
- 1. Introduction: Poetry, Theory, Archives 1
- 2. T. S. Eliot and Derek Mahon: A Tale of Two Archives 25
- 3. Archival Poetics: Containing Multitudes 46
- 4. Digital Baedecker: A Feminist Experiment with Mina Loy’s Archive 63
- 5. Louis MacNeice and His Archives 80
- 6. On Efficiency: John Updike’s Poetry Archives 92
- 7. Sylvia Plath’s Library: The Marginal Archive 111
- 8. ‘Library of Opaque Memory’: Spectral Archives in Brandon Som, Mai Der Vang and Bhanu Kapil 124
- 9. Opening the Box: Exploring the Bloodaxe Archive 143
- 10. ‘I am Already Historical’: In the Archive 159
- 11. The Archive and the Mirror 169
- 12. AA(A), or Affect, Archives and Anecdotes 182
- 13. Musée des Fragments: The Secret Memories of Ordinary Things 196
- Further Reading 205
- Index 209
