Tar for Mortar: "The Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality / (Record no. 232507)
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| control field | MdBmJHUP |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid LC control number | 2018932399 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781947447516 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781947447509 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)1055396286 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MdBmJHUP |
| Transcribing agency | MdBmJHUP |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Basile, Jonathan, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Tar for Mortar: "The Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Jonathan Basile. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | [New York] : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | dead letter office, BABEL Working Group, an imprint of punctum books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2018. |
| 264 #3 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Baltimore, Md. : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project MUSE, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2019 |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (106 pages): |
| Other physical details | illustrations |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open Access |
| Standardized terminology for access restriction | Unrestricted online access |
| Source of term | star |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Tar for Mortar offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature's greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story 'The Library of Babel' is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges's narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator's claims of the library's universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library -- is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges's imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology."--Project MUSE. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 600 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Borges, Jorge Luis, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1899-1986 |
| Source of heading or term | fast |
| Authority record control number or standard number | (OCoLC)fst00030252 |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Borges, Jorge Luis, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1899-1986 |
| General subdivision | Criticism and interpretation. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Literature and the Internet |
| Source of heading or term | fast |
| Authority record control number or standard number | (OCoLC)fst01000106 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Criticism |
| Source of heading or term | fast |
| Authority record control number or standard number | (OCoLC)fst00883735 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century. |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Literary studies: from c 1900 - |
| Source of heading or term | bicssc |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Literature and the Internet. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| Source of term | local |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Project Muse. |
| Relator term | distributor |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Book collections on Project MUSE. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | Full text available: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/66803/">https://muse.jhu.edu/book/66803/</a> |
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