A Corpus in Fever: Archival Impulses in Theory, Literature, and the Arts

Call for Papers National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of English Language and Literature Hellenic Association for the Study of English 14 December 2018 “A Corpus in Fever: Archival Impulses in Theory, Literature, and the Arts” Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Professor Hél è ne Aji, Universit é Paris Nanterre ​ Call for Papers Archives are sites marked by the violence of exclusion. Materials are stored and classified in libraries, museums, and collections of all sorts according to the definition of a body proper and an imposition of limits that circumscribe the archive. Archives map exterior and define interior spaces and attest to the presence as well as the absence of collectivities and their stories, events, and monuments. Within this economy of the inside and the outside, the corpus can be understood as a suffering body, threatened at once by the fever of infinite archivization, or “archive fever,”  in Jacques Derrida ’s formulation, a