If we look at LCSH as a text or a narrative, we can analyze it in a way that is similar to Edward Said’s criticism of 19th and 20th century novels in Culture and Imperialism.
A crucial aspect of Said’s premise is that the novel as we know it couldn’t exist without imperialism and that when we [...]
Looking back to literary criticism in the late 19th century we find Matthew Arnold’s work, including Culture and Anarchy and Essays in Criticism, in which he advances his beliefs that literature may be judged objectively, that a perfect society is attainable through intellectualism, and that the instrument of social perfection is the state. He is [...]
Palmer and Malone examine representations of women in classification structures, which are “artifacts of a society’s intellectual history” that “reveal commonly held beliefs and assumptions” (179). They show how subject headings can be temporary in nature and can depend upon and influence relationships between published knowledge and organization and retrieval of that knowledge. They trace [...]
I just finished reading The Life and Times of Michael K, by J.M. Coetzee, and I’m hoping to find a way to incorporate themes of representation, interpretation, voice, race, and resistance in Michael K, Foe, and Disgrace to the study of classification in LIS. Too lofty or just to out there for the library world? [...]
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