Transforming Author Museums

From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs

Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski, Thea Aarbakke (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-315-3 (ISBN)

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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).

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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	06.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Museums and Collections
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-80539-315-4 / 1805393154
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-315-3 / 9781805393153
Zustand	Neuware