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Episode 5: The Library as Infinite Space, Part II

Episode 5: The Library as Infinite Space, Part II

Anxiety in the Archives: A Podcast Dissertation · Elizabeth D. Headrick, MLS

June 26, 202330m 35s

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Episode 5 Footnotes

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  4. Richards, Thomas. The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire. Verso, 2011.

  5. Kraatila, Elise. “Conspicuous Fabrications.” Narrative Inquiry, vol. 29, no. 2, 2019, pp. 418–433, https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.19016.kra

  6. Alber, Jan, et al. “Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology: Beyond Mimetic Models.” Narrative, vol. 18, no. 2, 2010, pp. 113–136, https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.0.0042.

  7. Alber, Jan. “Unnatural Narratology: The Systematic Study of Anti-Mimeticism.” Literature Compass, vol. 10, no. 5, 2013, pp. 449–460, https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12065

  8. Ryan, Marie-Laure. Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory. Indiana University Press, 1991.

  9. Hackwith, A. J. The Archive of the Forgotten (A Novel from Hell's Library Book 2). Ace, 2020.

  10. Hackwith, Archive

  11. Cogman, Genevieve. The Dark Archive (The Invisible Library Book 7). Ace, 2020.

  12. De Smedt, Johan, and Helen De Cruz. “The Epistemic Value of Speculative Fiction.” Midwest Studies In Philosophy, vol. 39, no. 1, 2015, pp. 58–77, https://doi.org/10.1111/misp.12035

  13. Cogman, Genevieve. The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library Book 1). Ace, 2016.

  14. Sellnow, Deanna D. The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture: Considering Mediated Texts. SAGE, 2018.

  15. Alber, Jan. “Logical Contradictions, Possible Worlds Theory, and the Embodied Mind.” Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology, edited by Alice Bell and Marie-Laure Ryan, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2019.