Museums and Collections. Transforming Author Museums : : From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs / / ed. by Ulrike Spring, Thea Aarbakke, Johan Schimanski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Aarbakke, Thea,; Benedek, Anna,; Bodin, Helena,; Egeland, Marianne,; Felcher, Anastasia,; Fulsås, Narve,; Graf, Emily,; Haugdal, Elin,; Lande, Dana Ryan,; Orosz, Eva-Maria,; Schimanski, Johan,; Spring, Ulrike,; Zeissig, Vanessa,
• HerausgeberIn: Aarbakke, Thea,; Schimanski, Johan,; Spring, Ulrike,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Museums and Collections ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)

Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies centered not only on biography, but also literary texts, imagined spaces, different readers, historical contexts, architectural concepts, and artistic interventions. As this volume shows, the changing of spaces asks how literary museums create new ways of interlinking real and literary spaces, texts, objects, readers, and tourists.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Expanded Spaces and Changing Contexts of Author Museums -- Part I Expansion -- Chapter 1 New Architecture in Author Museums and Centres -- Chapter 2 A Displaced Apartment of a Poet in a Museum: Staging and Reception of Franz Grillparzer in the Wien Museum -- Chapter 3 From Cobwebs to a Web-Based Reality: Drawing Young Adults into a Memorial House -- Chapter 4 Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum -- Chapter 5 Unpacking the Book Collection: Following a Guide, a Curator and a Librarian in an Author Museum -- Chapter 6 The Gunnar Ekelöf Room and the Poet’s Widow as Archivist and Author -- Chapter 7 This Is Not a Set of Guidelines – or How (Not) to Exhibit Literature -- Part II Politics -- Chapter 8 New Sites of Worship: Sovietization and Literary Museums in Western Borderlands, 1940–1979 -- Chapter 9 Exposing the Obscurity of the Chinese Literary Establishment: The Destabilizing Power of Author Museums -- Chapter 10 South African Literature, Author Museums and Narrative Expansion: The Olive Schreiner House -- Chapter 11 Troublesome Heritage in the Home of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson -- Chapter 12 Housing World Literature: The Norwegian Ibsen Museums -- Epilogue: Author Museums and Democratization -- Index