‎Caroline Marie, Anne Chassagnol (eds)‎
‎Museums in Literature. Fictionalising museums, world exhibitions, and private collections‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 240 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:94 col., Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503593579.‎

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‎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 dessin e. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Preface: Wall Texts / The Literature of the Museum Jonah Siegel Introduction Culture Shock: How Literature Matters in Museums and Elsewhere Anne Chassagnol and Caroline Marie PART ONE Museums Outside Museums Le mus e hors du mus e In Conversation with Alexander Korzer-Robinson, Collage Artist, Author of the Cut Antiquarian Book on the Back Cover: Looking at these Books is like Revisiting a Museum An interview conducted by Caroline Marie The Self-Contained Museum: Romanticism, Collecting, and the Space of Writing Sophie Thomas The Dark Side of the Museum: Collecting, Hoarding, and Susannah Walker's The Life of Stuff: A Memoir about the Mess We Leave Behind Susanne Bayerlipp In Conversation with Lance Olsen, Writer: On the Ongoing Multimodal Collaborative Installation There's No Place Like Time An interview conducted by Hanna Hadjadj PART TWO Museums, Worlds, and Objects Le mus e, le monde et l'objet F erie de verre et de fer : le spectacle de l'Exposition universelle de Londres sous l'oeil d'un feuilletoniste parisien B n dicte Jarrasse The Egyptological Museum at Night: From Science to Magic, from Order to Chaos Nolwenn Corriou Howard Phillips Lovecraft : l'horreur au mus e David Labreure criture d'un mus e janusien : Class sans suite de Claudio Magris, un roman mus ologique James Weldon In Conversation with Edward Carey, Writer and Visual Artist: Of Camels, Magpies, Mudlarking, Palaces of Toys, and Making a Museum in One's Home An interview conducted by Caroline Marie PART THREE Museums Poetics and Aesthetics Po tiques et esth tiques du mus e L'album-mus e : un sous-genre th matique et formel de l'album pour la jeunesse Christiane Connan-Pintado Le paradoxe du mus e dans Ma tres anciens de Thomas Bernhard Sylvaine Faure-Godbert Le mus e comme atelier chez Daniele Del Giudice et Antonio Tabucchi, entre m moire, imagination et c cit Lavinia Torti Conversation avec Emmanuel Guibert, dessinateur et sc nariste : La bande dessin e comme reliquaire ou l'art de collectionner les connivences Propos recueillis par Anne Chassagnol PART FOUR Museum Material Culture and Writing Culture mat rielle et criture au mus e Contre la d cadence latine : Jos phin P ladan dans les salles chald o-assyriennes du Louvre Jessica Desclaux Qu'est-ce qu'il ne faut pas faire pour une exposition ! : ce que le livre doit au mus e dans l'oeuvre de Jean-Philippe Toussaint 168 Maxime Thiry The Oxford Museums and Storytelling for Young People Ben Screech Conversation avec Manuele Fior, auteur de bande dessin e. Des Intransigeants la naissance de la bande dessin e : la force narrative du mus e dans Les Variations d'Orsay (2015) Propos recueillis par Anne Chassagnol PART FIVE Fictionalisation and Legitimisation Fictionnalisation et l gitimation La litt rature, un dispositif de m diation puissant et sensible de l'exp rience mus ale : le cas de la collection Ma nuit au mus e des ditions Stock 194 ric Triquet et Marie-Sylvie Poli Sourcebook, Guidebook, VIP Pass: The Role of the Museum in Writing for Young Readers Kiera Vaclavik The New Discourses of the New Private Museums: Dakis Joannou, Eli Broad, and Fran ois Pinault Morgan Labar List of Images - Notes on Contributors - Index of Museums‎