LITERATURE IN MODERN SCHOOL: ETHICS VS. AESTHETICS, FORM VS. CONTENT
In modern school, the ability to analyze a fiction text and to perceive it aesthetically turns out to be practically unnecessary. Literature is perceived primarily as didactic journalism, teaching the student how to live. This is connected with the fact that students’ ability to talk about literature is reduced to the ability to operate with certain formulas, cliches, for which there is no real meaning. The understanding of how the text works is replaced by superficial judgments about the ethical messages of the author. The lack of interest of schoolchildren in the analysis of a fiction text seems to be related to the students' focus on a specific result that does not require in-depth knowledge of the subject. It seems that not only schoolchildren, but also teachers are in a similar situation. The described trends may indicate that in Russian culture all the features of the culture of the ‘finished word’ are more clearly manifested.