Ways of Representing Accumulation: The Archive and the Collection in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated and John Fowles’ the Collector

The paper explores the desire of accumulating in our contemporary society by analysing two processes: that of archiving and that of collecting; and how these are represented in literature, in novels such as Everything is Illuminated, which deals with the preservation of memory through the archive; a...

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Main Author:	Ada Erika
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sciendo 2013-03-01
Series:	Romanian Journal of English Studies
Subjects:	archive collection possession tabulation preservation
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0017

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spelling	doaj-0941ab63a1a340fc878ee1666100eea22021-09-05T14:01:25ZengSciendoRomanian Journal of English Studies1584-37342013-03-0110119219810.2478/rjes-2013-0017Ways of Representing Accumulation: The Archive and the Collection in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated and John Fowles’ the CollectorAda Erika0University of TimişoaraThe paper explores the desire of accumulating in our contemporary society by analysing two processes: that of archiving and that of collecting; and how these are represented in literature, in novels such as Everything is Illuminated, which deals with the preservation of memory through the archive; and The Collector, which brings a different perspective on the act of collecting, namely, the relationship between collecting, possession and fetishism.https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0017archivecollectionpossessiontabulationpreservation
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title	Ways of Representing Accumulation: The Archive and the Collection in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated and John Fowles’ the Collector
title_short	Ways of Representing Accumulation: The Archive and the Collection in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated and John Fowles’ the Collector
title_full	Ways of Representing Accumulation: The Archive and the Collection in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated and John Fowles’ the Collector
title_fullStr	Ways of Representing Accumulation: The Archive and the Collection in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated and John Fowles’ the Collector
title_full_unstemmed	Ways of Representing Accumulation: The Archive and the Collection in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated and John Fowles’ the Collector
title_sort	ways of representing accumulation: the archive and the collection in jonathan safran foer’s everything is illuminated and john fowles’ the collector
publisher	Sciendo
series	Romanian Journal of English Studies
issn	1584-3734
publishDate	2013-03-01
description	The paper explores the desire of accumulating in our contemporary society by analysing two processes: that of archiving and that of collecting; and how these are represented in literature, in novels such as Everything is Illuminated, which deals with the preservation of memory through the archive; and The Collector, which brings a different perspective on the act of collecting, namely, the relationship between collecting, possession and fetishism.
topic	archive collection possession tabulation preservation
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Ways of Representing Accumulation: The Archive and the Collection in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated and John Fowles’ the Collector

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