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    612-822-4611

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Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting

Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting

McIsaac, Peter M.

Paperback

Art HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0271058706
ISBN13: 9780271058702
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Jan 15 2013
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Museums of the Mind is the first book to explore the evolving relationship of collecting and the German literary imagination since the invention of the public museum. This study shows that in addition to redefining categories of art, history, and identity in modernity, the museum transforms the relationship between material objects and imaginative narratives. Using new categories, Peter McIsaac constructs a critical genealogy using key texts by Johann Goethe, Adalbert Stifter, Wilhelm Raabe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ingeborg Bachmann, Siegfried Lenz, W. G. Sebald, and Durs Grünbein and the material record of Germanophone museums.

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