Museums and Collections. Transforming Author Museums : : From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs /

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

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 li...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.)
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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

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