Transforming author museums: from sites of pilgrimage to cultural hubs

"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,...

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Other Authors: Spring, Ulrike 1969- (Editor), Schimanski, Johan 1963- (Editor), Aarbakke, Thea (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn 2022
Series:Museums and collections 13
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:ix, 338 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781800732438

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