Department of Literary Theory and Literary Criticism. Literary Institute

The teaching of literature and research work in the field of literary criticism is carried out in the Kuban state university since its foundation. For many years, the educational and scientific division of literary critics-teachers was called the Department of Literature. In the 1960s it was divided into three: the department of Russian literature, the department of Soviet literature, the department foreign literature. From 1982 to 1993 there was a general department of Russian and Soviet literature, and in 1993 the department of modern Russian literature and criticism was separated from it. In 2011, on the basis of the existing departments, the Department of the History of Russian Literature, Theory of Literature and Criticism was created.

The teaching staff of the department:

Head of the Department - Zhirkova Evgenia Alekseevna, doctor of philological sciences, professor.

Until 2014, the head of the department was Stepanov Lev Alexandrovich, doctor of philological sciences, professor. In 2008 he was awarded state award-title"Honored Worker of Higher Education Russian Federation».

L.A. Stepanov Professor at the department Rector of KubSU M.B. Astapov presents L.A. Stepanov badge of honor "Honored Professor of KubSU"

  • Golikova Larisa Porfirievna– candidate of philological sciences, professor
  • Golovko Vavara Andreevna - Senior Lecturer
  • Grimova Olga Alexandrovna
  • Zhirkova Evgenia Alekseevna
  • - department assistant
  • Kutsenko Florina Pavlovna– Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Martynenko Larisa Borisovna– Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Pastushenko Yury Georgievich– Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Polulyashina Daria Igorevna- teacher
  • Ryaguzova Ludmila Nikolaevna– Doctor of Philology, Professor
  • Saychenko Valeria Viktorovna– Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Svitenko Natalia Vyacheslavovna– Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Somova Elena Viktorovna– Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Sharoiko Marina Vladimirovna– Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Yurieva Marianna Vladimirovna- Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor.

Department laboratory assistants:

  • Petrova Lubov Ivanovna- Senior Assistant
  • Polulyashina Daria Igorevna- laboratory assistant
  • Kostenkova Vladislava Vyacheslavovna- Senior Assistant.


Teachers and graduates of the department

The department teaches courses on the history of Russian literature from its origin to the beginning of the 21st century, the literature of the Russian diaspora, the literature of the peoples of Russia and literary local history, literary theory, literary criticism, methodology of analysis and interpretation literary works, folklore, as well as the methodology of teaching literature at school and university. All disciplines are provided with programs and teaching materials.

Special courses and special seminars are focused on deepening vocational training in the field of literature. They are organized in such a way as to equip students with knowledge on topical issues of literary science, significantly expand their horizons both at the synchronous level and in the historical and literary perspective. Such, for example, are the special courses “Russian Literature and Folklore” (Ph.D., Associate Professor L. B. Martynenko), “ Ancient Russia in Culture and Literature of the 19th-20th Centuries” (Ph.D., Associate Professor M.V. Yurieva), “Genres of Russian Prose of the Early 20th Century.” (Ph.D., Associate Professor F.P. Kutsenko), “Genre modifications of the Russian novel of the 19th century” (D.Ph.S., Prof. E.A. Zhirkova), “Psychology in Russian literature of the 19th century” (Ph.D., teacher O. A. Grimova), “Russian literature of the 19th century. in the Mirror of Literature of the 20th Century” (Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. E. V. Somova), “Russian Literature in Russia and Abroad” (Ph.D., Prof. L. N. Ryaguzova, Ph. in Philology, Assoc. Abroad” (Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. V. V. Saichenko). An interdisciplinary synthesis is important in the author's developments: "Philosophy, mythology and psychoanalysis in literary criticism", "Archetypes and the world literary process", "Words, notes and colors: a dialogue of arts" (Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. N.V. Svitenko ).

Teachers of the Department of History of Russian Literature, Theory of Literature and Criticism regularly attend refresher courses.

Advanced training at the Faculty of Philology of Voronezh State University

Taking the course "Creative Writing"(Ph.D., Associate Professor Yu. G. Pastushenko), students learn to write stories, poems, essays, abstracts, create content for Internet sites.

To provide educational process issued teaching aids on the leading disciplines of the department, special courses and special seminars. Among them -

  • "Poetics of V. Nabokov's novels of the Russian period of creativity: traditions and innovations", "Scientific methods of literary research (methodology, principles and experience of analysis)" (2012), "The system of aesthetic and theoretical literary concepts of V.V. Nabokov”, “The Conceptual and Terminological Dictionary of V. Nabokov”, “Literature of the Russian Abroad: The First Wave of Emigration” (L. N. Ryaguzova), “Analysis of a work of art” (2011) (L. N. Ryaguzova, M. V. Yurieva ).
  • “Non-obvious dominants and their meaning in an adequate interpretation artistic text”, “Theoretical Poetics. Artistic speech: Educational dictionary-reference book "(2011) (E. A. Zhirkova).
  • “The evolution of the aesthetic views of M. Gorky in the context of the culturological searches of the era” (L. P. Golikova).
  • "Methods of teaching literature" (2010) (M. V. Sharoiko).
  • "Folklore and oral folk art" (2010), "Russian oral folk art" (2011) (L. B. Martynenko), "Theory of the literary process" (V. V. Saichenko).
  • "Russian versification: Practicum" (M. V. Yuryeva).
  • "The work of A. Platonov: poetics and problems" (Yu. G. Pastushenko).
  • "Russian satire of the twentieth century and the work of M. Zoshchenko" (Yu. G. Pastushenko).

The department has opened a basic specialization for the implementation of the profile "Literature and literary editing" which involves the training of literary editors. Students study the history and theory of literary editing, in particular the principles of text analysis, the basics of textual criticism of modern literature, the genres of newspaper and magazine journalism and television and radio broadcasting. Various aspects of modern literary-critical theories are studied. A variety of workshops help build editing skills. Among them, the specialization program published by the department "Literary Criticism and Editing", "Editing Workshop"(M. V. Sharoiko). Acquaintance with the modern editorial and publishing process is consolidated during a two-week practice, which students undergo in various publishing houses and editorial offices. One of the forms of mastering the acquired specialized knowledge is the participation of students in the production of independently prepared printed publications. Almanacs and magazines can be noted in this row. "MixType", "Neolithic", "Logos", poetry collections of young poets ( "The publication").

Editorial board "Neolita"


Student almanac "Logos" Almanac of young poets "Coming out"

The specialization "Literary Criticism and Editing" turned out to be in great demand: students find work as proofreaders, editors, journalists (mainly writers), press secretaries in organizations different levels, literary workers.

The scientific activity of the staff of the department is carried out in several directions: literary works and aesthetic concepts, the artistic structure of the works of Russian writers, national-historical ideas in Russian literature, comparative-historical study of literatures: typological commonality and originality of national manifestation.

In 2003-2006, a number of teachers participated in the development of the problems "National and universal in Russian classical literature and the philosophical and religious renaissance of the late XIX - early XX centuries and the processes of globalization in the field of culture", "Russian classical literature, philosophy and law in a changing Russia . The head of the project, supported by a grant from the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation and the Administration of the Krasnodar Territory, was Professor V.P. Popov, whose memory is dedicated to the collection of articles written on this issue. In 2002 - 2004, L.P. Golikova won a research grant from the Russian Humanitarian Foundation and ACC " North Caucasus: Traditions and Modernity” and prepared the monograph “Ossetian-Russian Literary Relations of the 19th–20th Centuries”. Yu. G. Pastushenko participated in the development of the project "Kuban in the constellation Auditorium.ru" (Soros grant).

The monographs of L.N. Ryaguzova "Conceptualized sphere" creation" in the artistic system of V.V. Nabokov”, “Substantial mythological representations as elements of the poetic world of V.V. Nabokov” and E.A. Zhirkova "Semantics of the lexical and syntactic features of A. Blok's early lyrics". Monograph L.A. Stepanova “Aesthetic and artistic thinking of A.S. Griboyedov” was included by the Higher Attestation Commission in the program of the candidate minimum in the specialty 10.01.01 – Russian literature. A textbook by L.P. Golikova “Russia and the Caucasus: Interliterary Relations in Historical Dynamics” was published with the stamp of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation (updated edition in 2008) and tutorial"Russia and Slovakia: Literary Contacts". Over the past ten years, collective monographs "Russian literature of the 20th century: current problems of development", "Russian literature of the 20th century: the evolution of artistic consciousness", "Russian literature of the 20th-21st centuries: traditions and modernity" (together with graduate students and students), which analyze the leading trends in the contemporary literary process in Russia. Prepared and published: educational and methodological manual "Russian literature for foreign students» (2009) Yu. G. Pastushenko; reader "Literary local history" (2011) V. V. Saichenko and M. V. Sharoiko and "Literary Transcaucasia" (2007) L. P. Golikova and M. V. Sharoiko. In 2011, a collective monograph “The Classical Heritage of Russian Literature and Modernity: Concepts, Interpretations, Experiences in Text Analysis” was published, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor V. A. Mikhelson.

Many publications of teachers are associated with participation in conferences MAPRYAL and ROPRYAL, publications of the Institute of Russian Literature, the Institute of the Russian Language, the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the state museums of A.S. Pushkin, A.S. Griboedova, M.I. Tsvetaeva, V.V. Nabokov, universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don and other cities of Russia and abroad.

M.V. Yurieva - participant of the UMO plenum on philology in Veliky Novgorod

Postgraduate studies work at the department. L.A. Stepanov, L.P. Golikova, L.N. Ryaguzova, E.A. Zhirkova, Yu.G. Pastushenko trained more than twenty candidates of philological sciences in the specialty 10.01.01 - Russian literature.

In 2008, a master's program was opened under the program "Russian Literature" under the guidance of Doctor of Philological Sciences, prof. Stepanova L. A.

The department operates folklore laboratory(Heads - Prof. L.A. Stepanov, Assoc. folk art in the works of Russian writers. The collections "Proverbs, sayings, riddles of the Kuban", "Folk prose of the Kuban", "Kuban conspiracies", "Songs and ditties of the period of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”, “Maslenitsa”, “Calendar ritual folklore of the Kuban: spring and summer-autumn cycles”, “Calendar ritual folklore of the Kuban: Christmas cycle”, other collections are being prepared. The published materials are used by students, teachers of the region's schools, are reflected in student research, term papers and theses.



Christmas carols

On behalf of the Department of Education and Science of the Krasnodar Territory, since 1995, the department has been participating in the regional, municipal, regional stages of the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren in literature. In 2002 and 2010 L.A. Stepanov, E.A. Zhirkova, E.V. Somova published teaching aids "Literary Olympiads" (more than 30 printed sheets). The teachers of the department participate in the preparation and conduct of classes with applicants for the programs of test technologies and the new system of the Unified State Exam.

Regional Olympiad for Schoolchildren in Literature. Prof. L.A. Stepanov, prof. L.P. Golikova, Assoc. SOUTH. Pastushenko

The employees of the department use their experience and scientific knowledge not only in the educational process of the university. Associate Professor Yu. G. Pastushenko periodically gives lectures for students of advanced training courses for teachers and librarians in Krasnodar and the Krasnodar Territory.

Faculty lead research projects within the Center additional education for children "Small Academy", and also take part in the work of the city scientific and practical conference of schoolchildren "Evrika" as experts.

Regular meetings are held in the poetry studio "Part of Speech" (Yu. G. Pastushenko). In the created film club, students are offered to get acquainted with the adaptations of literary works and those films that are commonly called "author's cinema" (V. V. Saichenko).

The international cooperation. The relations of the department with universities and scientific institutions of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Voronezh, Stavropol, Novgorod, Maykop and other cities of Russia continue to develop. Developed and implemented a plan of cooperation with foreign universities: Department of Russian Studies at the University of Constantine the Philosopher (Nitra, Slovakia), University in Ghent (Belgium).


Teachers of the department conduct a seminar for teachers of the Russian language and Prof. L.P. Golikov and prof. L.N. Ryaguzova at the MAPRYAL conference (Bratislava) of literature in Sukhum (Republic of Abkhazia)

The Department of Russian Literature was established in 1946. Its founder and first head was Alexander Nikolaevich Svobodov(1884 - 1950), local historian and Gorky historian, one of the organizers of humanitarian education in Nizhny Novgorod.

The department is graduating and provides all types of classes on curricula undergraduate Institute of Philology and Journalism in the directions 45.03.01 "Philology", 42.03.01 "Public Relations", 42.03.02 "Journalism", 42.03.03 "Publishing". The department is preparing undergraduates under the program "Russian Literature" (45.04.01. - Philology). At the department are trained graduate students and applicants in the specialty 10.01.01 - "Russian Literature".

Teachers of the department provide reading of the following disciplines undergraduate IFiZh:
- Introduction to literary criticism;
- History of Russian literature;
- Introduction to the theory of communication;
- Theory of literature;
- History of Russian literary criticism;
- Folklore;
- Modern Russian literature;
- Culturology;
- Book science;
- Bibliography;
- History of national literature;
- Modern literary process;
- Fundamentals of the theory of literature.

The teachers of the Department of Russian Literature developed a number of copyright disciplines, which are available to students of the Faculty of Philology and Journalism as elective disciplines:
- History of Russian uncensored poetry of the second half of the 20th century;
- History of Slavic literatures;
- Textology of new literature;
- Documentary discourse of Russian memoirs of the XIX-XX centuries;
- Genres of literary criticism and journalism;
- Russian classics in modern literature;
- Philological analysis of literary text;
- Russian literature in the context of mass culture;
- Traditions F.M. Dostoevsky in Russian and world literature of the 20th century;
- Communicative problems in Russian literature;
- Literary hierarchy and literary reputations;
- Creative individuality in Russian literature of the first half of XIX century;
- Literary text as a study of urban space;
- Interpretation of a literary text;
- Folklore of the Slavic peoples;
- Factors and incentives for the development of the regional literary process;
- traditional culture and folklore in the media mirror;
- Theory of text;
- Psychology and sociology of reading.

The department also provides teaching of the following disciplines of magistracy and postgraduate studies Institute of Philology and Journalism:
- History of literary criticism;
- Biography;
- Children's literature;
- The latest Russian literature;
- Philological hermeneutics;
- Theory and history of Russian verse;
- Theory of communication;
- Management of cultural projects;
- The structure of a literary work;
- Methods of teaching literature;
- Antique motifs in Russian lyrics of the Silver Age;
- New peasant poetry;
- History of Russian drama;
- Literary local history;
- Literature of Russian abroad;
- Military prose in Russian literature of the second half of the twentieth century;
- Ideas and forms of "life-building" in Russian literature;
- Traditional spiritual culture of the Slavs and modernity;
- Psychology and sociology of reading;
- Fundamentals of textual criticism;
- "New realism" in modern Russian literature;
- Regional contexts of the literature of the Silver Age.
- Linguistics and Poetics (postgraduate studies)
- Mass Literature as a Literary and Aesthetic Phenomenon (Postgraduate)
- Information Technology in the study and teaching of the humanities (postgraduate studies)
- Methodology and methodology of work on a Ph.D. thesis (postgraduate study)
- Communicative models in Russian literature (postgraduate study)
- The theory of myth in Russian philological science of the XIX-XX centuries. (postgraduate)
- Literature and folklore (postgraduate studies)

Main directions scientific research departments:
- the poetics of Russian literature (creativity of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Leskov, Korolenko, Gorky, Mayakovsky, Sholokhov, etc.);
- Literature in the modern information and cultural space;
- communicative aspects of literature;
- literary hierarchy and literary reputations;
- Literature and other arts;
- problems of translation of works of Russian classical literature into foreign languages;
- specifics of regional literature;
- textology of modern literature;
- folklore;
- literary criticism;
- theoretical poetics;
- history of Russian literary criticism;
- attribution of literary works;
- the dynamics of the modern Russian literary process;
- modern poetry.

The staff of the department is also actively involved in various scientific, educational, cultural and educational projects:
- The Department of Russian Literature is responsible for holding the regional stage All-Russian Olympiad on literature.
- Since 2013 the department has been holding competitions scientific works schoolchildren. Competitions are always thematically connected with the Pushkin conferences organized by the department.
- Since 2017, together with the State Literary and Memorial Museum of N.A. Dobrolyubov, within the framework of the international conference "Dobrolyubov Readings", a competition of young literary critics is held.
- Since 2016, the staff of the department has been giving lectures at the annual Festival of Sciences, Arts and Technologies in Nizhny Novgorod (FENIST).
- In 2018, the Department of Russian Literature of UNN, together with the Boldino State Literary-Memorial and Natural Museum-Reserve, launched a new scientific and educational project "Pushkin Lecture Hall". Lectures are popular among a wide audience: schoolchildren, students, teachers, pensioners - anyone who is interested in the history of Russian literature. As part of the project, lecturers of the department prof. I.S. Yukhnova, Assoc. Yu.A. Izumrudov, Assoc. HER. Forgiveness.
- Employees of the department often give public lectures in the cultural institutions of Nizhny Novgorod: the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Universal Library. IN AND. Lenin, Library. M.Yu. Lermontov in the Avtozavodsky district, etc.
- The Department of Russian Literature closely cooperates with the regional media. Yes, prof. I.S. Yukhnova created 2 educational and educational copyright cycles of programs for the radio "Image": 2014 - "Stories about Lermontov", 2017 - 2018. - “If only you knew from what rubbish ...” (From the history of literary plots).

The composition of the Department of Russian Literature:
Head of the Department, Doctor of Philological Sciences Korovashko Alexey Valerievich
Professor, Ph.D. Fortunatov Nikolai Mikhailovich
Professor, Ph.D. Urtmintseva Marina Genrikhovna
Professor, Ph.D. Yukhnova Irina Sergeevna
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Sukhikh Olga Stanislavovna
Associate Professor Izumrudov Yuri Alexandrovich
Associate Professor Proshchin Evgeniy Evgenievich
Associate Professor, Head of the Folklore Center Shevarenkova Yulia Mikhailovna
Senior Lecturer, Head of the Center for Literary Regional Studies Samotienko Evgenia Valerievna
assistant Ekaterina Bolnova
assistant Khramova Natalya Borisovna
assistant Yanina Polina Evgenievna
leading philologist Kurochkina Anna Anatolyevna
laboratory engineer Bolshakov Alexander Dmitrievich
laboratory assistant Serova Anastasia Alekseevna

Speaking about the monographs published by the staff of the department, we should especially note the textbook by N.M. Fortunatova, M.G. Urtmintseva and Yu.S. Yukhnova "History of Russian literature of the XIX century", first published in 2007 by the publishing house " graduate School” and since 2011 reprinted every year by the publishing house “URAIT”.

Other monographs prepared by the staff of the department aroused great interest:

  • Korovashko A.V. Conspiracies and Spells in Russian Literature of the 19th-20th Centuries. M., 2009;
  • Korovashko A.V. In the footsteps of Dersu Uzala. The paths of the Ussuri region. M., 2016;
  • Korovashko A.V. Mikhail Bakhtin. M., 2017 (series "Life wonderful people”, the book was included in the “Long List” of the National Literary Award “Big Book”);
  • Sukhikh O.S. M. Gorky and F. Dostoevsky. N. Novgorod, 1999;
  • Shevarenkova Yu.M. Research in the field of Russian folklore legend. N. Novgorod, 2004;
  • Urtmintseva M.G. Talking painting. Essays on the history of literary portrait. N. Novgorod, 2000 (the book was awarded the Pushkin Prize of Nizhny Novgorod);
  • Urtmintseva M.G. Literary portrait in Russian literature of the second half of the 19th century: genesis, poetics, genre. N. Novgorod, 2005;
  • Fortunatov N.M. Secrets of Chekhonte. On the early work of Chekhov. N. Novgorod, 1996;
  • Fortunatov N.M. The effect of Boldin autumn. N. Novgorod, 1999 (the book was awarded the Pushkin Prize of Nizhny Novgorod);
  • Fortunatov N. M., Fortunatova V. A. Boldinsky dialogues. N. Novgorod, 2006;
  • Fortunatov N.M. Philological detective. Pushkin: mysteries of Boldin autumn. Museum-reserve of A.S. Pushkin "Boldino". 2011;
  • Yukhnova I.S. The problem of communication and the poetics of dialogue in the prose of M.Yu. Lermontov. N. Novgorod, publishing house of UNN, 2011;
  • Yukhnova I.S. Communication and dialogue in the work of A.S. Pushkin. Saransk, 2014; Izumrudov Yu.A. Nizhny Novgorod poet Ivan Ermolaev: Portrait against the backdrop of the era (A new name from the literary environment of Sergei Yesenin). N. Novgorod, 2017.

From the end of 2016 to the present, the staff of the department accept Active participation in scientific events within the framework of the federal program for the preparation for the 150th anniversary of A.M. Peshkov (M. Gorky).

The results of the work of the creative team (Prof. M.G. Urtmintseva, Ass. P.E. Yanina, Prof. A.V. Korovashko, Assoc. Prof. O.S. Sukhikh) were:

  • organization and holding of the XXXVIII International Scientific Conference "Gorky Readings";
  • scientific preparation and publication of a 2-volume collected works of M. Gorky, a cycle of feuilletons of the writer and a bio-bibliographic guide (Gorky M. Collected works written at home, in Nizhny Novgorod. In 2 volumes - Nizhny Novgorod, 2017. (Vol. 1 "I came into the world to disagree..."; T. 2. The drama of life in prose and on stage); Literary environment of Maxim Gorky (1892-1904) Bio-bibliographic reference book. - Nizhny Novgorod, 2017; Gorky M. Quick notes, Nizhny Novgorod journalism of Maxim Gorky, Nizhny Novgorod, 2017).

All projects were supported by grants from the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

At present, also within the framework of the federal program for the preparation for the 150th anniversary of A.M. Peshkov, an additional volume of the Collected Works of M. Gorky, a collection of scientific works "Nizhny Novgorod Gorky Studies: History and Modernity" and a collection of reports of the XXXVIII International Scientific Conference "Gorky Readings" are being prepared for publication.

An important activity of the Department of Russian Literature is the organization and holding of scientific conferences on topical philological problems.

So, the Gorky theme, which traditionally occupies an important place in the field of scientific research of the department, is devoted to regularly held scientific conferences - "Gorky Readings", which acquired international status in the 1990s (they are attended by Gorky scholars from the CIS countries, the USA, Germany, Norway, Poland). , Japan, etc.). The conferences are organized both with the support of the Administration of the Nizhny Novgorod region and the city of Nizhny Novgorod, and with the help of grants from the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation. Collections of scientific papers based on conference materials are regularly published.

Every year, the department, together with the Committee for Culture of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the Boldino State Literary-Memorial and Natural Museum-Reserve, holds International Scientific Conferences dedicated to the study of A.S. This scientific forum, which arose back in the 1960s, enjoys well-deserved prestige and popularity among both domestic and foreign Pushkinists. In 2005, the socio-cultural project "Boldinsky Readings" was awarded the Prize of the city of Nizhny Novgorod.

Since 2000, the department has been holding a scientific conference "Grekhnev Readings", dedicated to the memory of the outstanding Pushkinist Vsevolod Alekseevich Grekhnev (1938-1998).

Since 2002, the department has been organizing the annual scientific conference "Provincial Life" (until 2011 the conference was called "Provincial Life as a Phenomenon of Spirituality").

V last years there were several more conferences organized by teachers of the department of Russian literature. In 2013, Professor I.S. Yukhnova organized and held the conference “Eugene Onegin in Russian and world culture: On the occasion of the 180th anniversary of the release of the complete edition of the novel”. Since then, conferences dedicated to one of Pushkin's works ("The Queen of Spades", "Boris Godunov", " Captain's daughter”, etc.), have become annual at UNN. Since 2014, at the initiative of Associate Professor E.E. Proshchina at the department, the All-Russian Scientific Conference "The Newest Russian Poetry" is being organized. This conference is unique, having no analogues either in Russia or abroad, since it introduces into scientific circulation the materials of the domestic literary poetic process of the last two decades.

The department operates folklore center, which stores materials collected by annual folklore expeditions on the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region. These expeditions began in 1955 on the initiative of Assoc. V.M. Potyavin. From 1962 to 2009 expeditions were led by Clara Evgenievna Korepova, one of the largest Russian folklorists, the closest student of V.Ya. Propp. Currently, the expeditions are led by Assoc. Yu.M. Shevarenkov and ass. N.B. Khramova.

The scientific publication of archive materials is a paramount task in the activities of the Folklore Center, in which Yu.M. Shevarenkova, A.D. Bolshakov, A. Vasiliev. Already published books (multi-volume editions of indexes of archive materials, collections “Nizhny Novgorod conspiracies”, “Nizhny Novgorod Christian legends”, “Mythological stories and beliefs of the Nizhny Novgorod Volga region”, monograph “Russian calendar rites and holidays of the Nizhny Novgorod Volga region” (K.E. Korepova, 2009) etc.) received a wide response in the scientific community.

In 2012, the staff of the Folklore Center began publishing the multi-volume project "Folklore Heritage Nizhny Novgorod region”, within the framework of which collections of folklore from various regions of the Nizhny Novgorod region are published. Currently published: "Folklore of the Sosnovsky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region" (2013), "Folklore of the Koverninsky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region" (2013, 2014; in 2 vols.), "Folklore of the Diveevsky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region" (2016, 2017; in 2 -x vols.).

From the very foundation of the Center, its scientific work has been supported by various state and non-state funds - grants from the Soros Foundation, the Russian State Science Foundation, the President of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, etc. Over the past 5 years, the Center staff has implemented 2 large multi-year grants: 2012 - 2013. – grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation within the framework of the federal target program"Scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of innovative Russia" for 2009-2013; 2015 – 2017 – grant from the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation / Russian Foundation fundamental research. The head of both projects was the head of the Folklore Center, associate professor Yu.M. Shevarenkov.
The scientific work of the Folklore Center has repeatedly received the highest expert opinions. So, in 2012, the creative team of the center became a laureate of the Second All-Russian Competition of Scientific Works in Folklore. P.G. Bogatyrev. And in 2013, according to the expert opinion of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (No. 2013-14.B37.21.0537-2-001), the project "Folklore Heritage of the Nizhny Novgorod Territory" was recognized as "the most successful project in the field of folklore regionalism, carried out in the Russian folklore and ethnolinguistics in recent years.

In addition, the Department of Russian Literature is the base on which the activities of Center for Literary Local History(Head of the Center - Ph.D. Samostienko Evgenia Valerievna, Scientific Director of the Center - Professor, Doctor of Philological Sciences Urtmintseva Marina Genrikhovna). The main task of the center is to collect, systematize and analyze materials related to the "Nizhny Novgorod text" of Russian culture, as well as to coordinate the interaction between various forms of today's literary life and academic science.

  • Founded: 1991
  • The address: 399770, Yelets, Lipetsk region, st. Kommunarov, 39, YSU, building No. 15, 3rd floor, 304 b.
  • Phone: +7 (47467) 6-08-12
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Head of Department: Ivanyuk Boris Pavlovich
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  • About the department

    Scientific directions:

    "Poetics of the work in the context of literary tradition, national and author's world image". Within the framework of this direction, the members of the department develop the following topics: “National and regional “Cosmo-Psycho-Logos” in the artistic world of Russian writers of the 20th century”, “Poetic genres”, “Russian historical romance and dramaturgy in a cultural context”, “Poetics of narration”. results research work found reflection in monographs, scientific collections, articles and reports at conferences of different status. The department maintains constant scientific relations with Moscow universities, with St. Petersburg, Kazan, Tambov, Tver, Ural (Yekaterinburg), Ivanovo universities, as well as Donetsk, Kamenetz-Podolsky (Ukraine), Grodno (Belarus) and others. foreign universities. Scientific research is managed by B.P. Ivanyuk, T.P. Dudina and O.K. Kramar.

  • Department history

    In 1991, the Department of Literature was divided into two: the Department of Russian Literature of the 20th Century and Foreign Literature (Head of the Department - Pashigorev Vladimir Nikolaevich) and Russian Classical Literature (Head of the Department - Krivonos Vladislav Shayevich), which from 2002 to 2014 The city was called Russian classical literature and theoretical literary criticism (head of the department - Ivanyuk Boris Pavlovich). In 2014, both departments merged under common name Department of Theory and History of Literature (head of the department - Ivanyuk B.P.).

  • Additional Information about the department

    The following candidate and doctoral dissertations have been completed at the department:

    • Silina L.A. “Typology of narrative forms in the Petersburg Tales” by N.V. Gogol, 2001 (Ph.D.);
    • Ivannikova N.D. “Roman I.A. Goncharova "Oblomov": typology of "life" worlds", 2002 (Ph.D.);
    • Popova G.N. “The world of the Russian province in the novels of I.A. Goncharova, 2002 (Ph.D.);
    • Polyakova T.A. “Poetics of the novel by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin „Lord Golovlev” (system of symbols and motifs)”, 2002 (candidate’s);
    • Inshakova Yu.T. "Genre system of poetry by I.A. Bunin", 2005 (candidate);
    • Dudina T.P. "The evolution of ethical and aesthetic thought in Russian historical dramaturgy XIX century”, 2006 (doctoral);
    • Rudomazina T.B. "Chronicle narratives about the prince's death: genre and style analysis", 2007 (candidate);
    • Kharitonov O.A. “Compositional Polyphonism: Genesis and Structural Modifications (on the Material of Novel Prose of the 19th-20th Centuries)”, 2009 (Ph.D.);
    • Nikitina E.A. "Rhetorical methods of narration", 2011 (Ph.D.);
    • Zhilyakov S.V. "Genre tradition of the poem-"Monument" in Russian poetry of the XVIII-XX centuries", 2011 (Ph.D.).

    PhD:
    at the department there is a graduate school in the specialties 10.01.01 - Russian literature; 10.01.08 - Literary theory. Textology

    List of disciplines of specialization, elective courses, electives taught by members of the department:
    1. Analysis of a dramatic work (Prof. T.P. Dudina);

    2. Analysis of a lyrical work (Prof. B.P. Ivanyuk);

    3. Analysis of the lyric-epic work (associate professor N.D. Esikova);

    4. Analysis of the epic work (associate professor L.A. Silina);

    5. Dramatic genres (Prof. T.P. Dudina);

    6. Genres of the European novel (Prof. B.P. Ivanyuk);

    7.Historical drama of the nineteenth century. (Prof. T.P. Dudina);

    8. Historical views of Russian writers (Prof. T.P. Dudina);

    9. History of Russian literature and culture (associate professor T.A. Polyakova);

    10. History of aesthetic and literary studies (Prof. B.P. Ivanyuk, Assoc. Prof. G.N. Popova);

    11. Literature and other forms of art (associate professor OA Kharitonov);

    12. The image of the province in Russian literature of the nineteenth century. (Associate Professor G.N. Popova);

    13. Fundamentals of eloquence (associate professor T.A. Polyakova);

    14. Fundamentals of scientific research (associate professor T.A. Polyakova);

    15.Principles and methods of analysis and interpretation of a literary text (Prof. B.P. Ivanyuk);

    16.Psychological trend in Russian literature and domestic literary criticism (associate professor L.A. Silina);

    17.Russian fiction of the 19th century (Prof. T.P.Dudina);

    18. Russian classical literature in historical context(Prof. T.P. Dudina);

    19. Russian Literature: Theoretical History of Research (Associate Professor O.A. Kharitonov);

    20. Russian literary criticism (associate professor O.A. Kharitonov);

    21. Russian satire of the eighteenth century (Prof. T.P. Dudina);

    22. Russian narrative genres of the 19th century. (Associate Professor L.A. Silina);

    23. Russian family novel of the 19th century (associate professor T.A. Polyakova);

    24. Russian versification (prof. B.P. Ivanyuk);

    25.Poetic genres (Prof. B.P. Ivanyuk);

    26. Philology in the system of modern humanitarian knowledge (Prof. B.P. Ivanyuk);

    27. Philosophical context of Russian literature of the 19th century (Prof. T.P. Dudina);

    28. Ethical and aesthetic paradigms of Russian literature of the 19th century (Prof. T.P. Dudina).

The department is sure that its scientific interests - the latest Russian literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, theoretical aspects of literature, problems of historical and theoretical poetics, principles of typological analysis of literary texts, problems of studying the literatures of the peoples of Russia- a worthy and high object of study, the relevance of which will only increase.

Through its activities, the department contributes to the preservation of the best traditions of fundamental university education, one of which remains the priority of the theoretical approach in teaching the latest literature.

In 2011, the department opened a profile for the preparation of bachelors "Applied Philology" (Russian language).
This profile provides for the preparation of bachelors for work in the field of communication, publishing, cultural institutions and management. The profile provides the acquisition of professional skills of multi-aspect work with various types texts (creation, interpretation, examination, transformation, distribution of artistic, journalistic, official business, scientific, etc. texts) and the implementation of linguistic, interpersonal and international written and oral communication.


YEAR OF LITERATURE: RESULTS OF THE DEPARTMENT

This year has become significant for the Department of Russian Literature of the 20th Century and Literary Theory, for which participation in educational, educational, educational projects of the university, city and republic is a tradition. These are the International on-line readings “Chekhov is alive” (assistant Zhirkov D.D.), the organization of the contact session “Vivat, student”, the university intellectual quiz “Vivat, teacher”, public lectures. Also, anyone can become a full member of the Internet forum "Dialogues about Literature" on the website of the Faculty of Philology. Students work in the scientific circles "Audiovisual Aspects of Russian Literature of the 20th Century" and "Autograph", participate in theatrical seminars on the work of classic writers.

Within the framework of the project "Anniversaries of Russian Literature", a university competition of literary video projects "February. Get Ink” and the literary evening “Pasternak. Rebirth”, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of Boris Pasternak. Also for the anniversary of I.A. Brodsky, applied students filmed a popular science film "Brodsky in Yakutia" and developed a literary website about the poet's work.

The author's project by S.F. Zhelobtsova "Literary Yakutsk", which opened the literary biography of the capital, became successful. On bus excursions, schoolchildren, students, guests of the university and the republic get acquainted with the work of great poets of the twentieth century - Joseph Brodsky, Sergey Mikhalkov, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Andrey Voznesensky, Valentin Rasputin.The literary route included the realities of the toponymic symbols of the creative novel Russian writer Andrey Gelasimov "Cold", dedicated to his "small" homeland.

In City classical gymnasium In Yakutsk, within the framework of the Year of Literature and the anniversary of the faculty, a lecture was held by the professor of the department Khazankovich Yu.G. On the last day of October, more than a hundred students of grades 9-11 of one of the oldest educational institutions in Yakutsk gathered in a cozy assembly hall. The stated topic is “Do we know literature?” turned out to be resonant and aroused genuine interest both among the children and language teachers. As part of the public lecture, virtual tour on the work of the writers of the Arctic and the literary places of the city of Yakutsk, as well as career guidance work was carried out with high school students.

On November 9, the participants of the All-Russian conference "Issues of teaching Russian as a non-native language in a multi-ethnic educational environment" visited the tourist complex "Tsarstvo permafrost". Associate Professor Zhelobtsova S.F. showed the guests of the Faculty of Philology from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Altai, Khanty-Mansiysk, Kemerovo, Vladivostok and other realities of the environs of Yakutsk, which became the toponymic signs of the North in Andrey Gelasimov's novel "Cold", dedicated to his "small homeland".

The discussion club "Vivat, student" regularly organizes meetings of students and teachers of the faculty with literary critics, poets, famous public figures. So, on April 4 of this year, a meeting was held with prose writer A. Gelasimov.

The blog "Dialogues about Literature" is posted on the website of the department, opened by a discussion forum for F. Bondarchuk's film "Stalingrad". Associate Professor S.F. Zhelobtsova, starting from the original source of the film of the novel by V. Grossman "Life and Fate", proposed a number of questions. Answers, remarks, resumes of site visitors are distinguished by a fresh look at history, polemical assessment feature film, civil and patriotic feelings of our contemporaries.

in the city library. V.G. Belinsky, February 26, 2015, a presentation of the lecture project "New Prose of Russia" was held.

On February 12, 2015, IMI NEFU hosted an act lecture on actual problems modern literature.

Within the framework of the All-Russian Scientific Conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of philological education in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the work of the section "Theoretical Aspects of the Literature of the 20th Century: on the 120th Anniversary of the Birth of M.M. Bakhtin" was organized. During the work of the section, presentations of scientific research on the poetics of the author's word in the novel, on the problems of the artistic mode, "private" literary issues in the framework of the study of the fundamental works of M. M. Bakhtin.

The Literary Institute was founded in 1933 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky as the Evening Workers' University. Until 1992, he was a university of the Union of Writers of the USSR; is now state university and is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of General and Vocational Education of Russia.

The education system provides for the study of courses in the humanities, classes in creative workshops by gender and genre fiction (prose, poetry, dramaturgy ), literary criticism, journalism and translation of fiction. Konstantin Paustovsky, Konstantin Fedin, Mikhail Svetlov, Lev Ozerov, Lev Oshanin taught at the Institute. Lectures were delivered by scientists V. Asmus, I. Tolstoy, G. Vinokur, A. Reformatsky, S. Radtsig, A. Takho-Godi, B. Tamashevsky, S. Bondi and others. famous writers.

As part of the Institute:
Department of literary skill.
Department of Literary Translation.
Department of Social Sciences.
Department of Russian literature of the XX century.
Department of Foreign Literature.
Department of Russian Classical Literature and Slavic Studies.
Department of Literary Theory and Literary Criticism.
Department of Russian language and stylistics.

Training of specialists in the state higher educational institution\"Literary Institute named after A. M. Gorky \" is carried out both at the expense of the federal budget within the state assignment, and in excess of the target figures - under the relevant agreements with payment of the cost of education by individuals and (or) legal entities.

Admission to the institute is carried out on the basis of personal applications of citizens with a secondary (complete) or secondary professional education, in the process of selection based on the results entrance examinations(with the exception of cases provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation on education). All applicants to the institute pass a creative competition, entrance exams, and a final interview.

creative competition held from January 15 to May 30 annually. Applicants from other cities send work by mail (including electronic) with a brief autobiography and an indication of the form of study. Entries will not be returned. Works are submitted in the amount of at least 30 pages of typewritten text (literary translation - together with the original and only if you choose full-time teaching, poetry - at least 350 lines), which are closed review at the departments of literary skill, theory of literature and literary criticism, literary translation and foreign languages. To ensure objectivity, two independent reviews are written for each competitive work (in case of divergence of estimates, the work is sent to the third reviewer), after which the final decision of the selection committee with a score \"positive\" or \"negative\" is reported (without specifying the names of the reviewers ) to the contestant.

Entrance exams for persons who have successfully passed the creative competition, are held according to the programs of secondary general education, focused on classes and schools of a humanitarian orientation. Acceptance of documents takes place on July 21-22, entrance exams are held from July 23 (for absentee form- since August 11).

Applicants for full-time study take the following exams:
- creative sketch - improvisation on one of the given, not known topics in advance, but not according to the content of literary works - in writing
- Russian language (exposition) - in writing
- Russian language and literature (oral)
- History of the Fatherland (oral)
- foreign language (oral).

Applicants for the correspondence form students pass all the specified exams, except for the exam in foreign language.

Final interview conducted admission committee with the participation of representatives of major departments, aims to identify the presence (or absence) of an applicant's inclination to the chosen specialty and chosen genre, general and literary erudition, etc., confirming (or refuting) the results of entrance examinations.

Full-time students have military draft deferment. Hostel provided for non-residents for a while entrance exams, and in case of receipt - for the duration of the study.

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