1st Edition
Time and the Museum Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality
By Jen A. Walklate
Copyright 2023
210 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, is the first explicit in-depth study of the nature of museum temporality.
It argues as its departure point that the way in which museums have hitherto been understood as temporal in the scholarship - as spaces of death, othering, memory, and history – is too simplistic, and has resulted in museum... Read more
Part I Contextualizing: Introduction: Time; Chapter One: Frame; Part II Temporal Shapes: Introduction: Contours in Time; Chapter Two: Linearity; Chapter Three: Non-Linearity; Part III Temporal Atmospheres: Introduction: Time and Spirit; Chapter Four: Presence ; Chapter Five: Absence; Chapter Six: Authenticity; Chapter Seven: Auracity; Part IV Consequences and Meanings: Conclusion: After-Words; Coda: In Extremis; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Jen A. Walklate (University of Aberdeen) is a museologist, historian, and literary theorist, studying the intersections between museums and other cultural media, including literature, drama, and comics. She utilizes novelistic and poetic forms and concepts to open new ways of considering visitor experience in museum contexts, and literature as an analytical framework for understanding the construction and performance of museums. Drawing upon this study, she is looking at new ways to create more representative, inclusive, egalitarian, and intellectually open institutions.
