Transforming Author Museums -

Transforming Author Museums

From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs
Buch | Hardcover
348 Seiten
2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-243-8 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
This book addresses how literary museums have changed since the form was established, what challenges they face today and how we might imagine them in the future.
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.

Ulrike Spring is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oslo and during this book project was also Visiting Professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Key publications include Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelden und Arktische Diskurse 1874 (co-author 2015) and Nordic Travels (co-editor 2021).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements



Introduction: The Expanded Spaces and Changing Contexts of  Author Museums

Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke



Part I: Expansion



Chapter 1. New Architecture in Author Museums and Centres

Elin Haugdal



Chapter 2. A Displaced Apartment of a Poet in a Museum: Staging and Reception of Franz Grillparzer in the Wien Museum

Eva-Maria Orosz



Chapter 3. From Cobwebs to a Web-Based Reality: Drawing Young Adults into a Memorial House

Anna Benedek



Chapter 4. Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum

Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski



Chapter 5. Unpacking the Book Collection: Following a Guide, a Curator and a Librarian in an Author Museum

Thea Aarbakke



Chapter 6. The Gunnar Ekelöf Room and the Poet’s Widow as Archivist and Author

Helena Bodin



Chapter 7. This Is Not a Set of Guidelines – or How (Not) to Exhibit Literature

Vanessa Zeissig



Part II: Politics



Chapter 8. New Sites of Worship: Sovietization and Literary Museums in Western Borderlands, 1940–79

Anastasia Felcher



Chapter 9. Exposing the Obscurity of the Chinese Literary Establishment: The Destabilizing Power of Author Museums

Emily Graf



Chapter 10. South African Literature, Author Museums and Narrative Expansion: The Olive Schreiner House

Dana Ryan Lande



Chapter 11. Troublesome Heritage in the Home of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Marianne Egeland



Chapter 12. Housing World Literature: The Norwegian Ibsen Museums

Narve Fulsås



Epilogue: Author Museums and Democratization

Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Museums and Collections
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-80073-243-0 / 1800732430
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-243-8 / 9781800732438
Zustand Neuware
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