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16%OFFPeter M. McIsaac - Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting - 9780271029917 - V9780271029917
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Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting

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Description for Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GM; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 880.

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.

McIsaac rethinks how fundamental cultural “truths” define ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271029917
SKU
V9780271029917
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About Peter M. McIsaac
Peter M. McIsaac is Assistant Professor of German at York University, Toronto. He is the author of numerous articles on German literature and culture and museum studies.

Reviews for Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting
“It is the principal merit of this study to have highlighted the connections that bind the process of internalisation of memory in German literature with the tangible nature of museums as both objective and imaginative structures.” —Daria Santini Oxford Art Journal

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