Transforming author museums: from sites of pilgrimage to cultural hubs
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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Spring, Ulrike 1969- (HerausgeberIn), Schimanski, Johan 1963- (HerausgeberIn), Aarbakke, Thea (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Berghahn 2022
Schriftenreihe:Museums and collections 13
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Abstract:"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"--
Umfang:ix, 338 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781800732438