DOI 10.52172/2587-6945_2022_22_4_63
Abstract
This article begins a series of works on the methods and technologies of teaching literary (poetic) creativity at university and school. The author of the article draws on the understanding of art as a «technique» that originated in antiquity and poetry as a «technological» process – «creation», «doing» based on knowledge and rules. This is how «poetry-creation» was perceived in Russia at the stage of its origin and formation – at the end of the 17th – the first half of the 18th centuries. Replaced then by romantic concepts about the poetry inspired by God, about the poet – genius and the prophet, about inspiration, and not «rules» as the basis of poetic creativity, this idea was partially revived in the era of modernism (both in mass and elite culture), and then picked up by some Soviet poets, critics and enthusiasts.
If we assume that one of the tasks of secondary and higher education in Russia is the formation of a creative personality, then a literature teacher can take a very direct part in this process. He is quite capable of introducing students to verbal (poetic) creativity. To do this, the latter should be approached as a «technology» with its own stages and procedures. The first stage should be considered historical and theoretical acquaintance with the concept and phenomenon of poetry. This article adopts the following working definition of poetry as a type of speech, in its organization and form opposed to 1) everyday speech and 2) artistic prose. The following «determinants» of poetry as this type of speech are indicated: the location of the text on the page «in a column» – a verse as a unit of text division – a rhythm as a way of internal organization of a verse – a rhyme as a visual-auditory «decoration» familiar to Russian ear, additionally supporting the rhythm and organization of the text vertically.
Keywords
Literary (poetic) creativity, poetry, popular versification, theory of poetry, methods of teaching literature at school and university, teaching technologies.