Abstract
The article presents the methodology of organizing educational activities to study a writer’s biography with the help of facilitation approach. A key aspect of the paper is the group work model, i.e., “The World Café” which allowed the authors to process and comprehend a large amount of information about F.M. Dostoevsky, share it with students, and plan further work on the study of his creative writing.In addition, the article identifies important concepts in the comprehension of the first part of the posthumous biography “The materials for the biography of F.M. Dostoevsky”. The compiler of the biography was O.F. Miller, a professor of literature in St. Petersburg University (Russia), critic, publicist, and a famous educator of the 19th century. Interestingly, “Materials for the biography of F.M. Dostoevsky”, published in 1883, were not fully republished and did not receive sufficient scientific understanding until 2010, even though the work of O.F. Miller remained the main source the experts studying F.M. Dostoevsky. Of much importance is the fact that some parts of “Materials for the biography of F.M. Dostoevsky” appeared on the Internet only after 2012. This paradox highlights the importance of the research describing the biography. In 2010, the personal history “Materials for the biography of F.M. Dostoevsky” became an integral part of the academic thesis by K.A. Okisheva “F.M. Dostoevsky and O.F. Miller: the history of relationships”. Our present study highlights the importance of biographies for the education of young generations. Our major concern is the methodology, according to which personal history’s information serves as an essential part of roundtable discussions which simultaneously target the acquisition of F.M. Dostoevsky’s biography and innovative classroom activities.
Highlights
The main concern of the paper is the theoretical and methodological problems of the biography genre in modern literary criticism
Of much importance are key issues which are as follows: the questions about the meaning and phenomenon of biography as a genre and the grounds for its popularity, features and contradictions associated with the novelization and interpretation of facts, the subjectivity and ethical standards of biographers, the typological problems of biographical works, the types of biographical sources, the principles of building a scientific biography of a famous person, etc
The main challenge faced by many researchers is successful personal history classes in educational process
Summary
The main concern of the paper is the theoretical and methodological problems of the biography genre in modern literary criticism. Of much importance are key issues which are as follows: the questions about the meaning and phenomenon of biography as a genre and the grounds for its popularity, features and contradictions associated with the novelization and interpretation of facts, the subjectivity and ethical standards of biographers, the typological problems of biographical works, the types of biographical sources, the principles of building a scientific biography of a famous person, etc. Another target of the research is the integration of biographical material into educational framework. Miller that is why this person was in the know of important issues of Dostoevsky’s life
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