Book chapter
Museum Elegies
The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy
Oxford Handbooks of Literature, Oxford University Press
04/15/2010
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199228133.013.0036
Abstract
This article discusses elegy in terms of museum culture. Elegy and the elegiac may provide critical purchase upon both the cultural disruptions and political reconfigurations embodied in the museums of the modern era and the increasingly diversifying and recuperative practices of conservation and display at work in the twenty-first century. The association of the elegiac to the museum poetics is reviewed. It is possible to conceive the programmatic rituals performed within the walls of the art museum as fundamentally elegiac. It is recognized that the museum is not as a domain for disinterested aesthetic reflection, objective ethnography, or triumphal history, but as a site of ethical contest among competing memories and identities and, through that contest, a place for cultural regeneration.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Museum Elegies
- Creators
- Eric Gidal - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Karen Weisman (Editor) - University of Toronto
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Series
- Oxford Handbooks of Literature
- DOI
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199228133.013.0036
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/15/2010
- Academic Unit
- English; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984397932702771
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