TY - BOOK AU - Aarbakke,Thea AU - Benedek,Anna AU - Bodin,Helena AU - Egeland,Marianne AU - Felcher,Anastasia AU - Fulsås,Narve AU - Graf,Emily AU - Haugdal,Elin AU - Lande,Dana Ryan AU - Orosz,Eva-Maria AU - Schimanski,Johan AU - Spring,Ulrike AU - Zeissig,Vanessa TI - Transforming Author Museums: From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs T2 - Museums and Collections SN - 9781800732445 U1 - 807.5 23/eng/20230216 PY - 2021///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - ART / Museum Studies KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: The Expanded Spaces and Changing Contexts of Author Museums --; Part I Expansion --; Chapter 1 New Architecture in Author Museums and Centres --; Chapter 2 A Displaced Apartment of a Poet in a Museum: Staging and Reception of Franz Grillparzer in the Wien Museum --; Chapter 3 From Cobwebs to a Web-Based Reality: Drawing Young Adults into a Memorial House --; Chapter 4 Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum --; Chapter 5 Unpacking the Book Collection: Following a Guide, a Curator and a Librarian in an Author Museum --; Chapter 6 The Gunnar Ekelöf Room and the Poet’s Widow as Archivist and Author --; Chapter 7 This Is Not a Set of Guidelines – or How (Not) to Exhibit Literature --; Part II Politics --; Chapter 8 New Sites of Worship: Sovietization and Literary Museums in Western Borderlands, 1940–1979 --; Chapter 9 Exposing the Obscurity of the Chinese Literary Establishment: The Destabilizing Power of Author Museums --; Chapter 10 South African Literature, Author Museums and Narrative Expansion: The Olive Schreiner House --; Chapter 11 Troublesome Heritage in the Home of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson --; Chapter 12 Housing World Literature: The Norwegian Ibsen Museums --; Epilogue: Author Museums and Democratization --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800732445?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800732445 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800732445/original ER -