Museums in literature : fictionalising museums, world exhibitions, and private collections / edited by Caroline Marie & Anne Chassagnol ; with contributions by Susanne Bayerlipp [and twenty five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marie, Caroline, editor.

Chassagnol, Anne, 1973- editor.

Bayerlipp, Susanne, contributor.

Series:

Museums and ideas

Standardized Title:

Museums in literature (Brepols)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Museums in literature.

Museum studies.

Physical Description:

237 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2022]

Language Note:

11 contributions in English and 11 contributions in French.

Summary:

"Museum studies today understand museums as symbolic spaces shaping, staging, and disseminating images and imaginaries as well as discourses of knowledge and power. As they try to encompass, gather and classify all times and places within one purpose-built building, they may be theorised with Michel Foucault as "heterotopias," like theatre and libraries, that is to say spaces both within and without time and place. As such, they invent specific discourse and partake of story telling and narrativisation. This collective volume in English and French adopts the perspective of literary studies to investigate the way museums, be they real or imaginary, have been represented, reminisced, or fictionalised in many literary genres from the eighteenth-century to the early twenty-first century. It explores the ways fiction, children's picture story books, and grey literature mediatise and fictionalise art museums, archaeological or Egyptological museums, war museums and museum-like spaces such as World exhibitions, private collections, or, arguably, hoarders? houses, sometimes theorising both literature and museums as discursive spaces producing imaginaries. It includes diachronical, comparative, generical overviews as well as case studies and interviews that together map out the varied modes of appropriation and figuration of museums by fiction, gothic, horror and fantasy, memoirs, reviews, children's literature, and 'bande dessinée'."-- Publisher's description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782503593579

2503593577

OCLC:

1317682282