Peter M Mcisaac
Biographic Data
| ID | 1485652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter M Mcisaac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcisaac |
| SIGNATURE | MCISAAC P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Embodying the Romantic Collector in Post-Romantic Writing
A paradox from Walter Benjamin’s 1937 essay “Eduard Fuchs: Der Sammler und der Historiker” provides the coordinates for this study of the Romantic collector in nineteenth-century literature. Following Benjamin, the paradox turns on the notion that the figure of the Romantic collector is a product not, as might be expected, of Romantic literature but rather of literary realism. Precisely because collecting and museum making were integral to Romant…
Public‐private Support of the Arts and German Cultural Policy
This paper provides a historical context for thinking about Germany’s recent embrace of sponsorship and private donations as a means of supporting education and the arts. The paper notes that the chief architect of a new national cultural policy, Michael Naumann, has justified a turn to public‐private collaborative arts funding with the argument that a market‐driven model of private responsibility for the arts stimulates greater citizen involveme…
The Museal Path to Bildung
This essay analyses salient dynamics of collecting and exhibiting in order to shed new light on the process of Bildung and the founding of a bourgeois family in the imaginary world of Der Nachsommer . The essay shows that learning to collect and exhibit scientific and aesthetic objects is the basis of identity formation in this text and propels the novel's protagonist Heinrich on his path to Bildung . The exchange mechanisms inherent in the novel…
Culture Incorporated
German Writers as Intellectuals
Wolfgang Emmerich, Peter M. McIsaac, German Writers as Intellectuals: Strategies and Aporias of Engagement in East and West from 1945 until Today, New German Critique, No. 88, Contemporary German Literature (Winter, 2003), pp. 37-54
Exhibiting Ottilie
The public museum is an institution we take for granted today, but it is an institution with a long history. The dynamics of nineteenth-century European society shaped the modern museum and subsequently brought about a total realignment of art, culture and the politics of representation. The French Revolution and Napoleon removed not only paintings and sculpture from the royal palaces, churches, and homes across Europe, but also moved entire chur…
Public‐private Support of the Arts and German Cultural Policy
This paper provides a historical context for thinking about Germany’s recent embrace of sponsorship and private donations as a means of supporting education and the arts. The paper notes that the chief architect of a new national cultural policy, Michael Naumann, has justified a turn to public‐private collaborative arts funding with the argument that a market‐driven model of private responsibility for the arts stimulates greater citizen involveme…
The Museal Path to Bildung
This essay analyses salient dynamics of collecting and exhibiting in order to shed new light on the process of Bildung and the founding of a bourgeois family in the imaginary world of Der Nachsommer . The essay shows that learning to collect and exhibit scientific and aesthetic objects is the basis of identity formation in this text and propels the novel's protagonist Heinrich on his path to Bildung . The exchange mechanisms inherent in the novel…
Exhibiting Ottilie
The public museum is an institution we take for granted today, but it is an institution with a long history. The dynamics of nineteenth-century European society shaped the modern museum and subsequently brought about a total realignment of art, culture and the politics of representation. The French Revolution and Napoleon removed not only paintings and sculpture from the royal palaces, churches, and homes across Europe, but also moved entire chur…
Culture Incorporated
German Writers as Intellectuals
Wolfgang Emmerich, Peter M. McIsaac, German Writers as Intellectuals: Strategies and Aporias of Engagement in East and West from 1945 until Today, New German Critique, No. 88, Contemporary German Literature (Winter, 2003), pp. 37-54
The Museal Path to Bildung
This essay analyses salient dynamics of collecting and exhibiting in order to shed new light on the process of Bildung and the founding of a bourgeois family in the imaginary world of Der Nachsommer . The essay shows that learning to collect and exhibit scientific and aesthetic objects is the basis of identity formation in this text and propels the novel's protagonist Heinrich on his path to Bildung . The exchange mechanisms inherent in the novel…
Public‐private Support of the Arts and German Cultural Policy
This paper provides a historical context for thinking about Germany’s recent embrace of sponsorship and private donations as a means of supporting education and the arts. The paper notes that the chief architect of a new national cultural policy, Michael Naumann, has justified a turn to public‐private collaborative arts funding with the argument that a market‐driven model of private responsibility for the arts stimulates greater citizen involveme…
Embodying the Romantic Collector in Post-Romantic Writing
A paradox from Walter Benjamin’s 1937 essay “Eduard Fuchs: Der Sammler und der Historiker” provides the coordinates for this study of the Romantic collector in nineteenth-century literature. Following Benjamin, the paradox turns on the notion that the figure of the Romantic collector is a product not, as might be expected, of Romantic literature but rather of literary realism. Precisely because collecting and museum making were integral to Romant…
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