Transforming author museums from sites of pilgrimage to cultural hubs

Introduction: Transforming Author Museums / Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke -- Part I: Expansion -- New Architecture in Author Museums and Centres / Elin Haugdal -- A Displaced Apartment of a Poet in a Museum: Staging and Reception of Franz Grillparzer in the Wien Museum / Eva-Mari...

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Weitere Verfasser: Spring, Ulrike (HerausgeberIn), Schimanski, Johan (HerausgeberIn), Aarbakke, Thea (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York Berghahn 2022
Schriftenreihe:Museums and collections 13
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: Transforming Author Museums / Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke -- Part I: Expansion -- New Architecture in Author Museums and Centres / Elin Haugdal -- A Displaced Apartment of a Poet in a Museum: Staging and Reception of Franz Grillparzer in the Wien Museum / Eva-Maria Orosz -- From Cobwebs to a Web-based Reality: Drawing Young Adults into a Memorial House / Anna Benedek -- Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum / Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski -- Unpacking the Book Collection: Following a Guide, a Curator and a Librarian in an Author Museum / Thea Aarbakke -- The Gunnar Ekelöf Room and the Poet's Widow as Archivist and Author / Helena Bodin -- This Is Not a Set of Guidelines, or How (Not) to Exhibit Literature / Vanessa Zeissig -- Part II: Politics -- New Sites of Worship: Sovietization and Literary Museums in Western Borderlands, 1940-79 / Anastasia Felcher -- Exposing the Obscurity of the Chinese Literary Establishment: The Destabilizing Power of Author Museums / Emily Graf -- South African Literature, Author Museums and Narrative Expansion: The Olive Schreiner House / Dana Ryan Lande -- Troublesome Heritage in the Home of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson / Marianne Egeland -- Housing World Literature: The Norwegian Ibsen Museums / Narve Fulsås -- Epilogue: Author Museums and Democratization / Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke
"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 ask how literary museums create new ways of interlinking real and literary spaces, texts, objects, readers, and tourists"--
Beschreibung:ix, 338 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:9781800732438
978-1-80073-243-8