Transforming Author Museums: From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs

Transforming Author Museums: From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs - Museums and Collections

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781800732438
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 807.5
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 348
Weight: 654g
Height: 160mm
Width: 235mm
Spine width: 27mm