Ebook: Archive für Literatur: Der Nachlass und seine Ordnungen

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Wilhelm Dilthey’s essay Archive für Literatur (1889) remains to this day an important point of reference for questions surrounding literary archives. What is a literary archive, or Nachlass, and according to which principles is it constituted? Who determines which literary legacies are preserved and canonized? And what of aspects of the “writer’s workshop” persists in the new order instituted by the archive?