{"product_id":"museums-of-the-mind-peter-m-mcisaac-9780271058702","title":"Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eMuseums of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to explore the evolving relationship of collecting and the German literary imagination since the invention of the public museum. This study shows that in addition to redefining categories of art, history, and identity in modernity, the museum transforms the relationship between material objects and imaginative narratives. Using new categories, Peter McIsaac constructs a critical genealogy using key texts by Johann Goethe, Adalbert Stifter, Wilhelm Raabe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ingeborg Bachmann, Siegfried Lenz, W. G. Sebald, and Durs Grünbein and the material record of Germanophone museums. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcIsaac rethinks how fundamental cultural \"truths\" define what it means to belong to acculturated communities, showing that the activation of meaning in museums depends foremost on what people bring, in their minds, to those real and imagined environments, resulting in what McIsaac calls museums of the mind. This notion elucidates the vital shifts wrought by museum culture over the past two centuries and illuminates how museums, literature, and digital media shape thought and behavior today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter M. McIsaac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271058706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271058702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Peter M. McIsaac","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48998553125119,"sku":"9780271058702","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/museums-of-the-mind-peter-m-mcisaac-9780271058702","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}