Problems of literary regional studies (the research is based on a terminological and bibliometric analysis)

The purpose of this report is to describe the actuality of literary regional studies. The history of the origin of this concept has been disclosed here. And a problem of the ambiguity of its application in scientific circles was outlined. The list of authors who used the term “literary regional studies” in literary, cultural, pedagogical works was presented. A terminological analysis of the notion “literary regional studies” according to the type of relation to the branches of science has been carried out, the working definition of the concept has been derived. The results of bibliometric analysis of publications on the theme “literary study of local lore” from 2000-2017 which was based on the scientific electronic library elibrary.ru are presented. Analysis of publication activity was carried out, productive authors who were engaged in the study of literary regional studies were identified. The process of increasing the number of conferences at various levels at which reports on the subject under consideration were heard was investigated. The type-specific, sectoral and thematic structure of the documentary flow on the problem is considered. The interest of the professional community to the reviewed topic was confirmed by graphs. Analysis of the workflow on the research topic allows us to draw some conclusions: • most of the publications devoted to literary regional studies were presented to professional journals “Library Business”, “School Literature”, “Social and Humanitarian Sciences”, “Pedagogical Search”; interest in this investigation is increasing because you can observe the growth of publications and the number of conferences on this topic; • Literature, pedagogy, cultural studies, history and geography are studying literary local history; The investigation of various points of view allows you to find different methods of obtaining information from primary literary sources; • The scientist of different institutions in the peripheral regions of Russia - the Southern Urals, Siberia, and the Amur Region have the largest number of publications on the research topic. It shows the availability of local literary material and about the relevance where the tourist attractiveness of the regions.