A new concept of three-dimensional study of fiction at the university

¹ Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after Kh.M. Berbekov, Russian and Foreign Literature Department, Nalchik, Russia
² Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, English Language and Professional Communication Department, Moscow, Russia
³ Institute for Humanitarian Studies, Branch of the Federal Research Center, “Kabardino-Balkarian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (IHR KBSC RAS), Nalchik, Russia

^* Corresponding author: kuchuk60@list.ru

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to the need to modernize the methodology of teaching literature in Russian regional universities, taking into account the current processes of globalization. The proposed method is conventionally called “Three flanks”, and provides for the study of national literature in close correlation with classical Russian and foreign literature. From the pedagogical standpoint, the system-synergetic approach is especially important for a multiethnic region, such as the North Caucasus. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the expediency and effectiveness of the comparative method of studying fiction and to propose a three-dimensional model, which is currently being tested at the framework of a special course at the Faculty of Philology of Kabardino-Balkarian State University. The authors used comparative-historical, system-structural, and axiological methods of scientific analysis. In order to harmonize the multicultural material, logical principles of analysis were used, namely, classification, typology, generalization, as well as the method of continuous sampling to identify representative texts. The article presents a pedagogical experiment that is currently being conducted in one of the North Caucasus universities. The essence of the experiment is a comparative study of national literature at the level of comparisons with world literature.