Literary Museum Research Articles

Understanding visitors’ experiences at Portuguese literary museums: An analysis of TripAdvisor reviews

In tourism studies, the analysis of online review websites is a gateway to understanding visitors’ experiences. After producing an updated inventory of literary museums in Portugal, this exploratory and qualitative research examines visitors’ experience at Portuguese literary museums, as revealed by national and international visitors on TripAdvisor. In the absence of national studies on visitors’ experience at these cultural attractions, this paper addresses this gap, using NVivo R.1.6 software and thematic analysis to identify the common experiential tropes in the visitors’ online spontaneous feedback. The findings indicate that most reviewers perceive this experience as a platform for gaining knowledge about the authors, work and historical context. The results also reveal that the writers’ objects (even when replicas), the curational options, and the tour guiding staff contribute significantly to sensing a connection with the author, stepping into the past and co-creating an aura of authenticity in the museum experience.

Formation of the underground movement in the Northern Crimea (1941–1943)

The steppe part of Crimea occupies two thirds of the total area of the peninsula. In the east, north and west it is surrounded by the Black Sea, the Gulf of Sivash and by the Sea of Azov, from the south – by the third ridge of the Crimean Mountains. The natural and geographical conditions of this region did not allow the guerrilla struggle against the German-Romanian invaders to be launched here, so it was limited to conducting intelligence activities, sabotage and propaganda by various patriotic underground organizations.In the Russian historiography, which studies the problems of anti-fascist Resistance on the territory of Crimea, unfortunately, a false stereotype has developed about the absence of underground work in the north of the peninsula.The purpose of the article is to dispel this myth, based on previously unpublished documents from: the funds of the municipal archive of the Administration of the Razdolnensky district, the State Archive of the Republic of Crimea and the Yalta Historical and Literary Museum. The research methods used are source studies, historical and typological, retrospective, statistical and biographical.In the course of the research, the author has identified previously unpublished materials about the activities of underground fighters on the territory of the Akh-Sheikhsky, Larindorfsky, KrasnoPerekopsky districts of the Crimean ASSR. The contribution of underground fighters to the common cause of the anti-fascist struggle has been noted, as well as the creation of conditions for the successful liberation of the peninsula from the German-Romanian occupation in the spring of 1944.

Interpretation, Truth, And Feelings: Legends and Rumors In Culture: Conference at the Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, On September 18, 2023

The conference organized by the Department of Folkloristics under the heading Interpretation, Truth, and Feelings: Legends and Rumors in Culture, focusing on the study of modern traditions, was held at the Estonian Literary Museum in Tartu. Eda Kalmre’s main area of research is legends and rumors and their functioning in society. She is equally familiar with traditional legends and contemporary folklore.

Periodika 19. století v muzejních knihovnách

The aim of the study is to provide information from the analysis of a handbook and promotional publication on museum libraries prepared by the Methodology Centre for Book Culture and Literary Museums of the Museum of Czech Literature (MC PNP) in cooperation with the Library Committee of the Czech Association of Museums and Galleries (AMG) in 2021. Information on individual museum libraries is divided into three blocks. The first of them contains the basic information on the particular library, the second outlines the history and activities of the library, and the third presents the nature of its collec­tions as well as the points of interest and unique items. Unique and rare serials of the 19th century in museum libraries have been identified and compared with records in the Serials section of the Union Catalogue of the CR.

«Мой идол, мой учитель, мой недосягаемый образец!»: И. С. Тургенев – читатель А. С. Пушкина

The article provides a holistic analysis of the reader’s perception by Ivan Turgenev ofAlexander Pushkin’s lyrical works. It focuses on the materials of the writer’s personal library (Ivan Turgenev State Literary Museum in the city of Oryol), namely the book (volume) 3 from the first posthumous collec-tion of the poet’s works (1838–1841) with numerous marks left by Turgenev. This paper is the first to recon-struct the picture of the writer’s thoughtful and responsive attitude to Alexander Pushkin as a poet, which is done through a comprehensive study of all the traces of reading left on the pages of the book by Ivan Turge-nev (underlining, notes). The nature of the marks indicates the writer’s concentrated attention both to the form of Alexander Pushkin’s verse and to the content. The writer’s reading reflection combines poetic texts into mainly three closely related thematic areas: moral and philosophical, love, and biographical. Ivan Tur-genev takes a special interest in Alexander Pushkin’s widely represented pairing of the images of life and death, he significantly deepens the dramatic notes in the author’s reflections on man and his position in the world. The philosophical meanings of Alexander Pushkin’s lyrics, which receive psychological voicing in the course of reading, also become for the writer a necessary tuning fork for the tragic sounding of the theme of love. Approaching the comprehension of the phenomenon of life creation in Alexander Pushkin’s works,Ivan Turgenev, on the one hand, places certain biographical accents in the poems, and, on the other hand, approaches the solution of the problem of the meaning and freedom of poetic creativity. For Ivan Turgenev, the sonnet To the Poetbecame the credo of a talented person in the matter of creativity.

NATURE, COVERAGE, AND STRUCTURE OF THE CATEGORY „LITERARY HERITAGE“ IN THE CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN CULTURE

The article interprets the scientific category „literary heritage“ in the logic of Bulgarian legislation and current social reality. The narrow meaning of the category is represented mainly by the activities of literary museums. Other institutional spaces have been singled out, which take care of the artifacts of the literary tradition – archives, libraries, community centers, universities, and research organizations. In conclusion, a concept for defragmenting the structures and activities preserving the literary heritage has been formulated.

Embodied Time: Applied and Incidental Architectural Narratives

In this analysis of storytelling through building, encompassing a search for practical applications for how future buildings can embrace the passing of time, narrativity has been categorised into: the ‘applied’ or ‘artificial’, meaning the construction of a directed story, identity or philosophy; and the ‘incidental’ or ‘organic’, the accidental erosion and patination caused by weathering and human use. In ‘Building Time’, David Leatherbarrow considers three groupings for his analysis of buildings inhabiting the temporal dimension. The ‘Time of the Project’, the alterations, adaptations and adjustments made to a building, can be considered a prototype for ‘applied’ narrativity, while his ‘Time of the World’ can be linked to the gathering of ‘incidental’ narrativity. Leatherbarrow’s third aspect, the ‘Time of the Body’, can be compared to the phenomenological aspects linking these categories together, directing human passage and activity through design cues and through the traces of those who have come before (Leatherbarrow, 2021). At times these categories overlap and intertwine with each other, mirroring the idea that in the communication of narrative the “the corporeal is not more fundamental than the intellectual, but… are entangled” (Austin, 2012: 108). In summary, the aim is for an architecture that may “articulate the experiences of our very existence” (Pallasmaa, 2009 :19). Therefore, as time passes and our experiences become history, we can still tell our stories through the medium of building. This methodology to create buildings with a high degree of ‘story-ness’ was later tested in the design of a new library and literary museum. Based in Nottingham’s Lace Market, the existing tale of County House, a derelict and crudely adapted Georgian townhouse, was clarified, curated and secured, while the adjacent plots provided opportunities to experiment with applied and incidental narratives told through new buildings.

Sobol, T. and Sokolova, T., eds. (2021). Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin: Materials from the collection at the State Literary Museum: An illustrated catalogue. Moscow: Literaturniy muzey. (In Russ.)

A. Sukhovo-Kobylin’s life and work are yet to be explored; to this day, no scholarly biography or complete collection of his works have been published. According to the authors of the illustrated catalogue that details the inventory of the State Literary Museum, once subjected to professional analysis, the listed museum objects and archival items may provide a reliable source of information about the celebrated Russian playwright. A genuine museum object possesses a unique power to verify researchers’ concepts. Sukhovo-Kobylin comes from a family rich in literary talent (Evgenia Tur, Evgeny Salias, and Evdokia Tur). Each of the writers had connections to a number of Russian literary doyens. These connections are traced and detailed in private correspondence and other equally exciting sources. Inconsistency of the material resulted in the catalogue’s division into several parts — each, however, emphasising Sukhovo-Kobylin’s role in the history of Russian literature.

Литературно наследство и музеи в съвременна България

The article interprets the scientific category “literary heritagе” in the logic of Bulgarian legislation and current social reality. The connections between literary heritage and museums are outlined. The narrow meaning of the category is represented mainly by the activities of literary museums. Other institutional spaces have been pointed out, which take care of the artifacts of the literary tradition – archives, libraries, community centers, universities, and research organizations. In conclusion, a concept for defragmenting the structures and activities preserving the literary heritage has been formulated. The key factor in this case are the activities of the National Literary Museum.

Children as Consumers and Co-Creators of Cultural Products: The Impact of Foreign Films on Estonian Children’s Culture in the 1950s

This article gives a folkloristic insight into how cinema and films influenced Estonian children’s culture in the late 1940s and in the 1950s. During this period, Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union. Due to the lack of Soviet film production at that time, the cinemas began to show American, German, and other films of the 1930s, so-called foreign films or trophies. The post-World War II trophy films, which differed from Soviet films in both themes and images, but also ideals, characters, and soundtrack, became box-office hits. The source material comes from the relevant essays sent to the Estonian Folklore Archives at the Estonian Literary Museum. As memories show, cinema and films had a strong influence on children and young people. Trophy films had an impact on children’s culture, and children’s games and activities found inspiration in them. Children build the culture of their peers, being both consumers of the culture and creating a culture of their own based on the culture of adults. Adult films helped them to socialise and take part in cultural exchanges.

COMPARATIVE AND TEXTOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SCIENTIFIC-CRITICAL TEXT OF THE WORK WITH THE AUTOGRAPH “RASHAHOT” (TEHRAN EDITION, 1977)

This article is dedicated to the study of the text of the work “Rashahot ain al-hayat” (Drops from the Fountain of Life) written by Fakhruddin Ali Safi Koshifi Hiravi (d. 939/1532-1533). In the article, the oldest copies of this work are kept in Tashkent manuscript funds - State Literary Museum named after Alisher Navoi of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan “Rashahot”.manuscript. №33/II, Institute of Oriental Studies named after Abu Rayhan Beruni of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan “Rashahot”. manuscript №10147, Institute of Oriental Studies named after Abu Rayhan Beruni of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Institute of Oriental Studies named after Abu Rayhan Beruni of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, “Rashahot”. Institute of Oriental Studies named after Abu Rayhan Beruni of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan manuscript.№5418 ҳамда “Rashahot”. National Manuscripts Department of Tehran Library Council #8201 (26458) inv. digital) features of manuscripts are discussed. The article also includes the texts of these ancient manuscript copies of “Rashahot” and the Tehran edition of the work (“Rashahot”. Scientific and critical text. Tehran, 1977. Prepared for publication - AA. Mu’iyniyan.) text is compared with each other and the State Literary Museum “Rashahot” named after Alisher Navoi of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. manuscript. It is firmly concluded that the text of copy #33/II is the perfect, most reliable text of the work "Rashahot ain al-hayat" (Drops from the Fountain of Life).

Ilmar Laabani (luule)dialoog Paul Celani ja Nelly Sachsiga / Ilmar Laaban’s (poetic) dialogue with Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs

Ilmar Laabani (luule)dialoog Paul Celani ja Nelly Sachsiga / Ilmar Laaban’s (poetic) dialogue with Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs

Pagulase suhtlusvõrgustiku kujunemisest lähikondsetega. Ilmar Laabani juhtum / On the Formation of a Refugee’s Contact Network with Kith and Kin: The Case of Ilmar Laaban

Pagulase suhtlusvõrgustiku kujunemisest lähikondsetega. Ilmar Laabani juhtum / On the Formation of a Refugee’s Contact Network with Kith and Kin: The Case of Ilmar Laaban

“Literature Museum Libraries” at the Junction of Cultural Heritage, Literature, Museum and Library Concepts

This study relates to the literature museum libraries, which are exclusive to Turkey as a library model. One of the essential library applications in Turkey in recent years, literature museum libraries are authentic hybrid institutions. Library, museum, library museum house or museum library are not adequate concepts to define them. The literature museum library is a new library concept after synthesising these concepts. Since having been founded in 2011 by the Libraries and Publications Department of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, literature museum libraries are designed as to offer services to writers, critics, publishers, translators and literary NGOs in particular and the whole public in general; in a fashion to provide a new concept to the society with different content and meaning than traditional libraries and museum librarianship. Literature museum libraries are cultural places where works of local writers and poets, who communed with the region after being born or living for long years there, are exhibited alongside the objects of the writers and the works written about these writers and poets, in addition to books and manuscripts that are suitable for museum librarianship. Students, researchers, and literature lovers are chosen as the fundamental user group, and the presentations and services are designed according to this group. In their collections, there are art and literature works, which are contemporary and aesthetic, as well. Reflecting their cities’ written and oral literary culture and cultural heritage where there are educational, cultural, and artistic events in this regard, literature museum libraries are spaces flourishing the city’s literary and aesthetic culture. Literature museum libraries perform various missions in regard to preserving, sustaining, exhibiting the cultural heritage and bringing it into the public’s service. This study probes library, museum, literary museum home and museum library concepts first before evaluating the literary museum in Turkey in general. The study also includes various examples from the services and events of the seven literature museum libraries in Turkey.

The literary museum and the Korolenko family

The article discusses the professional ties and personal friendship between V. Korolenko and V. Bonch-Bruevich, examining their correspondence dating back to 1892. Upon Korolenko’s death, Bonch-Bruevich, later to become director of the State Literary Museum, continues his correspondence with Korolenko’s daughter Sofia, discussing primarily, but not solely, the writer’s archive. Even though the family decided to entrust Korolenko’s archive to the Lenin Library, which boasted more appropriate preservation facilities than the Literary Museum, Bonch-Bruevich and Sofia Korolenko would exchange letters for many more years, enjoying each other’s trust and friendship. Bonch-Bruevich would support Korolenko’s family. After Bonch-Bruevich passed away, followed by Sofia two years later, the correspondence between the Literary Museum and the Korolenko Museum in Poltava continued until 1960; the letters were written by Evgeny Balabanovich, director of Chekhov Museum affiliated with the State Literary Museum, and his counterpart in Poltava, Lyubov Geishor, who ran the Korolenko Museum. The earliest letter quoted in the article dates from 1892, while the latest discovered epistle comes from 1960.

Oskar Looritsa liivi folkloori kogu

The Estonian Folklore Archives of the Estonian Literary Museum hold a valuable collection of Livonian ethnography and folklore – Oskar Loorits’ collection of Livonian folklore. Oskar Loorits started his journey to Livonians and the Livonian language in 1920, when he participated in a Livonian expedition in Courland as an assistant to Lauri Kettunen, professor of Finnic languages at the University of Tartu. His great interest in Livonians and the Livonian language, Livonian ethnography and folklore developed during this expedition. The Livonian folklore collection is valuable material concerned with the Livonian language and culture. The materials were mostly collected in the 1920s from 12 Livonian villages. The article provides an overview of the collection that physically consists of folders and file boxes in quarter format. The materials include both Livonian folklore texts and their translations. An important component part is the Livonian ethnographic dictionary. In 2013, the digitalization of materials started. The entire physical collection and its partially digitized materials are available to anyone interested.

Vanad udmurdi kombed taaselustatakse kõigepealt linnades. Intervjuu Galina Gluhhovaga

Udmurt folklorist Galina Glukhova works as guest researcher at the Department of Folkloristics of the Estonian Literary Museum from 21 February to the end of May 2022. The current dean of the Institute of Udmurt Philology, Finno-Ugric Studies and Journalism of the Udmurt State University is in Tartu in connection with the kindred people’s project “Mumming in Udmurt Culture”. Glukhova’s main fields of interest are related to Udmurt and Finno-Ugric folklore, calendrical traditions, mythology, and Udmurt literature. Interview with the Udmurt researcher was conducted by Agnes Neier.

Мемориальная память в лицах: герои-фронтовики Большой Ялты

The article considers memoirs from of the funds of the Yalta Historical and Literary Museum, namely, letters from the front during the Great Patriotic War of the heroes of the front-line Big Yalta, in the context of such branches of modern historical and humanitarian knowledge as microhistory and history of everyday life. The interdisciplinary connection in the study of memorial (historical) memory and microhistory is demonstrated using specific examples in the form of submitted personal documents, namely, front-line letters from the times of the Great Patriotic War. The purpose of the work is to show their importance in the development of microhistory as a discipline on the basis of the information received from the front letters stored in the funds of the Yalta Museum of History and Literature. Objectives: to consider and analyze the information contained in the front letters, thereby demonstrating their theoretical and practical significance for historical science as additional sources of information on the Great Patriotic War. To indicate the importance of this information for such humanitarian disciplines as “Microhistoryˮ and “History of everyday lifeˮ. Methodology. In the process of working on the study, the following research methods were used: analysis, synthesis, analogy and generalization. Results. The development of this problem proves the promise of such modern trends as microhistory and history of everyday life in the study of history as a science. This work helps to see new opportunities and study the history of everyday life on the basis of specific personalities during the Great Patriotic War. So, the study of front-line letters written by the heroes of the Great Patriotic War helps us to look at some historical facts from a different perspective, thereby studying the subject in more detail and volume. In particular, the obtained historical data and details are a special addition to the history of the liberation of Crimea from the fascist invaders. Conclusion. Thus, letters from the front are a valuable scientific source of information, showing us important details in the context of such disciplines as “Microhistoryˮ and “History of everyday lifeˮ. The personal history of a front-line hero becomes a significant addition to the study of the history of the liberated city (Yalta) and, in general, shows new promising directions in the study of the history of everyday life on the other hand, namely, on specific historical personalities who were active participants in significant events. In this study, we directly introduce new documents into scientific circulation, namely the presented memoirs of the heroes - front-line soldiers of Big Yalta, from the funds of the Yalta Historical and Literary Museum. This scientific research sets a new direction in the interdisciplinary (complex) and multilateral study of memorial memory in the mainstream of such humanitarian disciplines as “Microhistoryˮ and “History of everyday lifeˮ.

LITERARY MUSEUMS OF ST. PETERSBURG – THE LIVING HISTORY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE

The article dwells on the role of the literary museums of St. Petersburg in the study of Russian literature. In the XVIII – XX centuries, St. Petersburg was the focus of Russian literature, and the stories of life and creative legacy of St. Petersburg writers were intrinsically linked to the places where they lived and worked. At the moment St. Petersburg hosts ten literary-memorial museums. The article gives an account of the history of their foundation from 1905 till present time and provides an insight into the exposition and scholarly and educational activities of the majority of them. A core finding of the article is that the existing system of the literary museums of St. Petersburg represents a sound basis for the study of the history of Russian literature and can be a great help to students, school-children, philologists, cultural historians and all those, interested in Russian literature and culture.

Joseph Buttigieg: A Portrait of the Critic in Different Perspective

Joseph Buttigieg’s A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective aims at providing a critical reconsideration of Joyce’s work. Focusing on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it contributes to a radical revision of the central tenets of modernism as first established by T.S. Eliot’s conservative reading in the 1920s and reiterated by the New Critics in the 1950s. Buttigieg’s critical effort seeks to prevent Joyce’s work from being locked up in a literary museum, drawing on a dialectical and highly perceptive ability to unmask Western metaphysics and aesthetics as ideologies within which conservative criticism had framed Joyce’s Bildungsroman. Furthermore, his Maltese, English, Catholic roots made Buttigieg capable of identifying and demystifying high modernism’s irony and disinterestedness as instruments of the “higher” values on which the entire Irish social system was based. Together with Seamus Deane and Declan Kiberd, Buttigieg was among the very first critics who realized the relevance of Portrait as an Irish national indictment against colonization because – as Deane maintains– it is the first novel to examine the distorted relationship between the Irish community and oppression and to focus on this oppression’s ultimate resource – cooperation with the oppressed. This Joycean experience informed Buttigieg’s study of Gramsci’s method and its application in various fields of the social sciences, a heritage that has influenced scholarship throughout the world.