WORKING WITH FAN FICTION TEXTS DURING THE COURSE OF LITERATURE STUDY IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

The article is focused on teaching literature in senior high school and deals with the problem of using texts which are of reading interest among students. Nowadays modern children choose to read mass literature texts which are not accepted by teachers and parents. Such reading conflict leads to students repulsing the literary works suggested by teachers and parents. Students deliberately refer to fan fiction as a bright mass culture phenomenon. The necessity to inspire a renewed students’ interest in classical literature and to increase learning motivation in Literature as a school subject has become the basis for creating teaching techniques to bring fan fiction near to Russian classical literature. The choice of productive techniques is premised on developing aesthetic sense of young generation which is the main principle of literary education. In this respect comparative study seems effective. Its main aim is not only to compare classical literature and fan fiction texts, but bring students from their reading level of perceiving texts to a research, analytical one. The approach given in the article will make it possible to develop a critical eye on texts chosen for reading and aspiration to get to see a piece of fiction through and through.