Transforming Author Museums

From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-243-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Museums and Collections

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spring, Ulrike

Schimanski, Johan

Aarbakke, Thea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Ausstellungskataloge, Museumsführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Transforming 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

Über Autor(innen)

Spring, Ulrike
Ulrike Spring is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oslo, and Visiting Professor of History at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Key publications include Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelden und Arktische Diskurse 1874 (co-author 2015) and Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (co-editor 2016).

Schimanski, Johan
Johan Schimanski is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo and Visiting Professor of Cultural Encounters at the University of Eastern Finland. Key publications include Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelden und Arktische Diskurse 1874 (co-author 2015) and Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections (co-editor 2017).

Aarbakke, Thea
Thea Aarbakke is a doctoral fellow in the Norwegian Research Council funded project "Transforming Author Museums." She holds an MA in history on the topic of the "National Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Norway at the end of the 19th century." Her thesis is a museological study of exhibition practices at literary museums in Norway in the 21st century.

Ulrike Spring is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oslo, and Visiting Professor of History at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Key publications include Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelden und Arktische Diskurse 1874 (co-author 2015) and Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (co-editor 2016).