Museums of the mind
Subtitle: German modernity and the dynamics of collecting
By: Peter M. McIsaac.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: University Park
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271029917
Subjects: Museums -- Social aspects -- Germany; Museums in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The museum function, inventoried consciousness, and German-speaking literature; title: Inventoried consciousness today : Durs Grünbein and W. G. Sebald; title: Ottilie under glass : collecting as disciplinary regime in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften; title: The museum of Bildung : collecting in Stifter's Nachsommer; title: Archaeology, exhibition, and tourism : Raabe's "Keltische Knochen"; title: Flöneur optical, collector tactile : Rilke's Neue Gedichte as imaginary museum landscape; title: "Quiet violence" : the Army Museum in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina; title: (re)collecting the twentieth century : Siegfried Lenz's Heimatmuseum.