Transforming Author Museums - (Museums and Collections) by Ulrike Spring & Johan Schimanski & Thea Aarbakke (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p> <em>"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."</em> <strong>- Harald Hendrix</strong>, University of Utrecht</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p> <strong>Thea Aarbakke</strong> is a curator at the Women's Museum in Norway, situated in the former home of the writer Dagny Juel. During this book project she was a doctoral fellow at the University of Oslo/Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, and now holds a PhD in Museology. Her thesis is a study of contemporary exhibition practices at literary museums in Norway.</p>
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