Museums of the mind : German modernity and the dynamics of collecting / Peter M. McIsaac.

Author/creator McIsaac, Peter
Format Book
Publication InfoUniversity Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents The museum function, inventoried consciousness, and German-speaking literature -- Inventoried consciousness today : Durs Grünbein and W.G. Sebald -- Ottilie under glass : collecting as disciplinary regime in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften -- The museum of Bildung : collecting in Stifter's Nachsommer -- Archaeology, exhibition, and tourism : Raabe's "Keltische Knochen" -- Flâneur optical, collector tactile : Rilke's Neue Gedichte as imaginary museum landscape -- "Quiet violence" : the Army Museum in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina -- (Re)collecting the twentieth century : Lenz's Heimatmuseum.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [297]-313) and index.
LCCN 2007003712
ISBN9780271029917 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0271029919 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks AM7 .M39 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold