“Poet as a Tool of Language”: Lesson-Conference on Joseph Brodsky's Nobel Lecture

Abstract

The article emphasizes the significance of teaching senior school students Joseph Brodsky's Nobel lecture as it gives them an opportunity to “discuss” the importance of literature with the outstanding poet; the author gives a paradigm of questions and tasks to precede the analytical reading of the lecture. The results are discussed in view of encouraging students to shape their values.

Keywords

• reader's competence, analytical reading technology, shaping a reader's self-awareness