GEOCULTURAL ASPECTS OF PHILOLOGICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The article discusses the geocultural study of literary history as a necessary component of philological education. Humanitarian geography is one of the topical areas of modern humanities, the basis of many interdisciplinary studies – ethnolinguistics, linguistic and regional studies, ethnophilology. Several aspects stand out in the interaction between geography and literature. Firstly, the study of mythological geography, which makes it possible to identify universal geocultural mythologemes – the vertical and horizontal structure of the world; the main oppositions of the far-close, friend-foe, central-peripheral; the image of the path, its significant segments and points. Secondly, the geography of the place, which makes it possible to correlate verbal and geographical texts and to determine their documentary support. Thirdly, the geographical image of the text, revealing the semantic significance of geocultural phenomena.