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Exhibiting literature: The challenges of literary heritage’s value in the museological context
Tourism and Heritage Journal
Literary heritage represents a complex system that connects tangible and intangible elements. For this reason, its management and valorization in museological context are convoluted, since curators have to deal with its ambivalent nature. This article seeks to identify the main challenges of valuing intangible literary heritage through the analysis of interviews with specialists in literary heritage and museology from different countries. Results show that, firstly, there is a need to clearly define the concept and scope of literary heritage and, secondly, the growing importance of connecting literary heritage with cultural tourism to find new strategies for passing on its intangible meanings.
Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, 2020
Literary heritage presents a dialectic relationship between tangible and intangible elements. This complex duality presents challenges for curators, who must try to communicate this immaterial essence through the exhibition language. This article, structured on a two-phase research process, aims to identify the main challenges for literary heritage valorisation and communication in the museum context. First, interviews with specialists in literary heritage and museology from Catalonia and Russia were carried out to identify the main issues to be considered when designing a literary heritage exhibition and managing a literary heritage centre. Second, the websites of three renowned literary European museums were analysed to inspect whether and how these aspects are tackled by these museums and presented to their potential visitors. Results show that, firstly, the duality of literary heritage is vital in the designing of the exhibition; and secondly, that concepts such as human mediation, literary tourism, and promotion are important in finding new strategies to communicate and visibilise literary heritage intangible meanings.
Literary heritage in museum exhibitions: Identifying its main challenges in the European context
Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, 2020
Literary heritage presents a dialectic relationship between tangible and intangible elements. This complex duality presents challenges for curators, who must try to communicate this immaterial essence through the exhibition language. This article, structured on a two-phase research process, aims to identify the main challenges for literary heritage valorisation and communication in the museum context. First, interviews with specialists in literary heritage and museology from Catalonia and Russia were carried out to identify the main issues to be considered when designing a literary heritage exhibition and managing a literary heritage centre. Second, the websites of three renowned literary European museums were analysed to inspect whether and how these aspects are tackled by these museums and presented to their potential visitors. Results show that, firstly, the duality of literary heritage is vital in the designing of the exhibition; and secondly, that concepts such as human mediati...
The Historical Memory of Mankind: Over Thirty Centuries of History in Written Monuments
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020
The genesis of basic concepts such as literary monuments and composition of literature, which largely determine the formation of the repertoire of the Literary Monuments book series, is discussed. The interpretation of these elements, which are now, as before, taken into account by the editorial board of the series, goes back to the ideas of Academician Nikolai Konrad about the historicity of both the concept of literature itself and the composition of literature in different historical eras. Theoretical constructs about the unity of the cultural and historical development of mankind and the main stages and formations in the development of peoples, about the unity of the global literary process, as developed by Konrad within the project History of World Literature, lie at the core of the publication program of Literary Monuments. The new original approaches of Academicians Konrad and Dmitrii Likhachev to the study of the world literary process and the problems of textology become apparent themselves in the book series through the preparation and academic publication of the book texts as well as their academic support.
Cultural Heritage. New Perspectives.
2021
Important social changes in these last years have allowed us to analyze new paradigms of Cultural Heritage and to open new perspectives. Professor Wolfgang Welschthe, a German philosopher, affirms that the separatist idea of cultures has been surpassed through cultures’ external networking. In fact, the cultures today are extremely interconnected with each other. Lifestyles no longer end at the borders of national cultures, but go beyond these, are found in the same way in other cultures. The way of life for the community is no longer Italian or Japanese, but rather European or Global. The new forms of entanglement are a consequence of migratory processes, as well as of worldwide material and immaterial communications systems and economic interdependencies and dependencies. Consequently, the same basic problems or the progress of the knowledge today appear also in cultures or in studying areas once considered being fundamentally different: for example, the human rights, ecology, education, ethics, ecc.; these are only some of the topic that today we must analyze among the paradigms of Cultural Heritage. This book presents some reflections born from international seminars and that have had an important role in the reformulation of new perspectives for the definition of Cultural Heritage. In fact, the new conceptions of the culture are not just descriptive or abstract concepts, but operative concepts. Therefore, the understanding of these new perspectives is an active and important factor in our cultural life for a correct transcultural approach and so for a constructive dialogue with humanity.
In dialogue with cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is ever-present in our lives, but it is often only an invisible framework. Despite its significance and recognized value, it is frequently ignored, sometimes assaulted , and rarely-valued. Certain organizations are trying to bring it to the fore. Museums, monuments and heritage sites are among such establishments. These are paradoxical institutions. On the one hand, they benefit from reliable high trust capital ; on the other hand, they are / seem to be uninteresting for the general public. They are accused of being dusty, old-fashioned, boring, stiff etc. but they display a fairly large dynamism in their offer compared to other cultural and educational suppliers. This intervention aims to bring into question how museums/ heritage sites carry out their educational and cultural mission. Heritage should not be a passive educational resource. It could be a partner for personal development, both for the children and the grown-ups.
Managing and enhancing the intangible heritage: the experience of “Literary Parks”
2019
Cultural value In recent years, the concept of cultural heritage has changed to include artistic, archaeological, architectural and environmental heritages, including intangible forms of these. The potential of intangible heritage has yet to be fully exploited, and there are many opportunities for its enhancement and protection still to explore. The meaning of intangible heritage in social development, and its social and cultural potential is described through a case study of the Literary Park circuit in Italy. The Italian experience shows that there is potential in setting up networks in remote areas, and in the process of recognizing and enhancing the intangible heritage of a country. Heritage, particularly intangible heritage, is an alternative approach to promoting a sense of belonging and active participation in a community. It can attract financial resources and boost social development of the local cultural ecosystem. Surveys and interviews are used to assess the limits and p...
Telling stories of culture through literature
2008
Grounded on Raymond Williams‘s definition of knowable community as a cultural tool to analyse literary texts, the essay reads the texts D.H.Lawrence wrote while travelling in the Mediterranean (Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Etruscan Places) as knowable communities, bringing to the discussion the wide importance of literature not only as an object for aesthetic or textual readings, but also as a signifying practice which tells stories of culture. Departing from some considerations regarding the historical development of the relationship between literature and culture, the essay analyses the ways D. H. Lawrence constructed maps of meaning, where the readers, in a dynamic relation with the texts, apprehend experiences, structures and feelings; putting into perspective Williams‘s theory of culture as a whole way of life, it also analyses the ways the author communicates and organizes these experiences, creating a space of communication and operating at different levels of real...
Literary Heritage Sites Across Europe: A Tour d'Horizon (2015)
essay published in Interférences littéraires, 16, juin 2015, pp. 23-38 This essay takes the reader on a tour of a select number of literary heritage sites all over Europe, starting in Duchcov in the Czech Republic, where Giacomo Casanova is remembered, and ending in Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham near London. It discusses museums dedicated to Henrik Ibsen (Oslo), Fernando Pessao (Lisbon), Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto on Sicily), and Pierre Loti (Istanbul and Rochefort), as well as Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence (Istanbul). Its objective is to detect which museological strategies govern these recently opened or restructured places of literary memory, and to understand how these strategies respond to contemporary assessments of what literary heritage means and how it's remembrance may be successfully framed and organised. The analysis of these museological realities -- that in most cases have attracted important public recognition -- shows that most contemporary sites of literary memory focus not on the textual heritage of the writers they celebrate, but on the evocation of their lives and of the imagined worlds featured in their works. This move beyond the text includes the evocation of the fictional existence of characters and the expansion of the museum's reality as a building, linking it to its surrounding cityscape and landscape. And as a consequence, it has resulted in a sharper demarcation of the archival responsibilities of the museum, now relegated to separate parts of the institution where still plenty of room may be reserved for the exposition of paper works, but without invading the museum spaces used to evoke real and virtual literary lives.
Literature as a Tourism Attraction
Proceeding of The International Conference on Literature, 2019
Literature can be used as a sustainable tourism attraction considering its uniqueness related to the culture of society with all its phenomena where literature grows and develops. Cultural products in the form of literary works both oral and written are always related to the name of the places, events, and characters. Indeed, events, characters and places in literature are often used as tourism branding, attraction, and promotional media. The relationship between those elements in the development of literary tourism has not yet been realized, even though literature has contributed to attracting tourists and tourism has also contributed to spread the literature. As a tourist attraction, literature can be observed in various forms such as the name of destinations, tourism attractions set in literary works, the legacy of authors with their works, literary events, and other cultural products originating from literary stories. In this study, literature acting as tourism attraction is seen in various forms of creativity that can provide benefits and profits. This study uses literature review, utilizing literature from various sources including online media, websites to obtain data related to literature, tourism, and tourist attractions. In addition, the finding is also gained through observation of various phenomena in society. The data were analyzed using qualitative descriptive methods. This study reveals that literature as a tourist attraction in its existence provides mutual benefits both in profitability and hospitality possessed by literature in supporting the existence of tourism. Literature contributes to tourism through the popularity of both oral and written literary works that have been used as branding for tourism destinations taken from the names of characters or events.