{"product_id":"transforming-author-museums-from-sites-of-pilgrimage-to-cultural-hubs-9781800732438","title":"Transforming Author Museums: From Sites of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tLiterary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is a fine and rich collection of essays on the topic of the literary museum, notably on the writer's house museum. It offers engaging perspectives and new horizons that in the international scholarship on this topic will be highly appreciated.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Harald Hendrix\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Utrecht\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Expanded Spaces and Changing Contexts of  Author Museums\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eUlrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Expansion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e New Architecture in Author Museums and Centres\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eElin Haugdal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e A Displaced Apartment of a Poet in a Museum: Staging and Reception of Franz Grillparzer in the Wien Museum\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEva-Maria Orosz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e From Cobwebs to a Web-Based Reality: Drawing Young Adults into a Memorial House\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnna Benedek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eUlrike Spring and Johan Schimanski\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Unpacking the Book Collection: Following a Guide, a Curator and a Librarian in an Author Museum\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThea Aarbakke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Gunnar Ekelöf Room and the Poet’s Widow as Archivist and Author\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHelena Bodin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e This Is Not a Set of Guidelines – or How (Not) to Exhibit Literature\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVanessa Zeissig\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Politics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e New Sites of Worship: Sovietization and Literary Museums in Western Borderlands, 1940–79\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnastasia Felcher\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Exposing the Obscurity of the Chinese Literary Establishment: The Destabilizing Power of Author Museums\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEmily Graf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e South African Literature, Author Museums and Narrative Expansion: The Olive Schreiner House\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDana Ryan Lande\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Troublesome Heritage in the Home of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarianne Egeland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Housing World Literature: The Norwegian Ibsen Museums\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNarve Fulsås\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eEpilogue:\u003c\/strong\u003e Author Museums and Democratization\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eUlrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042742862167,"sku":"9781800732438","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800732438.jpg?v=1750955430","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transforming-author-museums-from-sites-of-pilgrimage-to-cultural-hubs-9781800732438","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}