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Kushner's Poetry in the 20th Century Secondary School Literature Course

Student: Zavorotnaya Tatiana

Supervisor: Evgenya Abelyuk

Faculty: Institute of Education

Educational Programme: Philological Hermeneutics of School Literary Education Programme (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This master thesis represents methodical development in the work of A. Kouchner, for the work in literature classes in school. The aim of this work is a selection of poems by A. Kouchner to discover students with the work of the poet; analysis and interpretation of poems, thinking through the possible strategies of their inclusion in the classroom; selection of literary and critical works on the works of A. Kouchner that you can use as literary material in the classroom. A review of the literature represented by works of V. G. Maranzana, O. Y. Bogdanova, E. S. Abelyuk, I. B. Rodnyanskaya. The thesis provides a thematic analysis and interpretation of some poems by Alexander Kushner, are considered antique motives, raises issues of the meaning of life, death, belief and unbelief, of creativity, of love, of culture. The paper presents different ways of incorporating poems by Alexander Kushner in the lesson. This is the beginning of the lesson, introduction to the subject, a view of the familiar (today) in the past (classic, perhaps, difficult to understand, a little strange)... This a comparative analysis of the poems as a fragment of a lesson or a whole lesson. This finale with the release of poetry of the school Canon in the poetry of today. Basic methods and techniques used by the author of the work is leisurely reading; search «points of wonder» in the text, posing questions to the text; an appeal to the texts-predecessors; «visual review»; highlight key words; attention to the strong positions of the text (repetitions); statement problematic issue; progressive review; comparative and motivic analysis; «no comment» as a special method of education of feelings and experiences. In work it is noted that the literature lesson is an improvisation, based on knowledge and love, «encounter with the text», in which the most important is through slow reading, careful attitude to the word to learn to love poetry.

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