Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands - Couverture rigide

Halkyard, Stella

 
9781800174375: Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands
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ISBN 10 : 1800174373 ISBN 13 : 9781800174375
Editeur : Lives and Letters, 2024

Synopsis

Library Lives plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in Manchester, its collections drawn from every corner and period of the textual and meta-textual world. How do we read – and what can we read from – a potsherd, a locket, a fragment of papyrus, a gorgeously illuminated medieval manuscript, an envelope, a seemingly ordinary book?

Stella Halkyard, one of the library's erstwhile archivists, tells the life stories of some of this great library's previously unsung treasures and provides radical new readings for a few of its acclaimed gems. In a sequence of idiosyncratic and often playful short essays she celebrates the resonance of these objects and their ability to tell stories that range across time and place, from the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, to John Donne's shroud, eighteenth-century Chinese papermaking, Elizabeth Bishop's letters, plastic surgery in sixteenth-century Italy, the lining of Walt Whitman's hat, and Delia Derbyshire's wartime gas mask.

Selected from Halkyard's popular 'Pictures from a Library' and 'Archive Corner' features published in PN Review over the last two decades, these essays have been brought together for the first time and put into productive dialogue with each other.

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À propos de l?auteur

Stella Halkyard, a dyed in the wool archivist and omnivorous bookworm, has worked in libraries and archives across Manchester since 1984, including: the Portico, Chethams, the Documentary Photography Archive and Manchester Public Libraries. The lion's share of her career, however, has been spent in the John Rylands Library where she cultivated the literary archives and creative arts collections and nurtured their readership and use. She is also currently a Trustee of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.

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Éditeur
Lives and Letters
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1800174373
ISBN 13 
9781800174375
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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