Lesson 1: Goals, objectives and methods of linguo-stylistic analysis of a literary text. Aim

Linguistic analysis of a literary text develops the skills of analytical reading, which is essential for the formation of a modern philologist. This course teaches not only the techniques of analysis, but also the "techniques of thinking."

Analytical reading skills make it possible to develop the ability not only to passively receive information from a literary text, but also to actively analyze it and subsequently interpret it correctly.It is worth noting an interesting article by D. Akhapkin "Analytical reading and writing in the system of modern education", which notes that literature does not form, but improves our ability to interpret events. Any improvement in the interpretation of various situations and the assessment of possible scenarios, actions or reactions, based not only on the observed or reliably reported material, but also on thought experiments which gives a significant advantage. [Akhapkin, 2014: 171]

For example, Natalie Phillips's article in The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies, edited by L. Zunshine. [Zunshine, 2015] is proof of the abovementioned statements. Experimental research by an interdisciplinary team led by Phillips, aimed to identify differences in attention mechanisms between reading for pleasure and analytical ("slow") reading (based on the novels by J. Austin “Persuasion”and "Mansfield Park" ). Subjects tasked with reading the text in order to subsequently write an analytical essay demonstrated a significant increase in activity not only in the regions of the brain traditionally associated with reading, attention control and executive functions, but in almost all of the brain. This experiment clearly demonstrates the need to take analytical reading more seriously. One of the main practical tasks of our research is to radically change the attitude of both teachers and students to the analysis of the text, and this can undoubtedly be done most vividly and interestingly using the example of high fiction.

In our opinion, the main mistake of many modern interpreters of literary text (teachers, analysts, critics, etc.) is that, unfortunately, their analysis is more culturological in nature, they often focus only on the historical context, the author's biography and ideological analysis. , ignoring the obvious fact that a literary work is impossible without language and therefore the linguistic component should be a priority, especially when preparing future philologists.