Time and the Museum

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.