Keyword: «fiction»

The author makes the attempt to approve the thought of the importance of the identity of the teacher in moral and spiritual education of preschool children, and also to define readiness of future teachers for moral spiritually education of preschool children. The criteria and indicators by which readiness of future teachers for moral spiritually education of preschool children was determined are offered. Results of the analysis of questioning and conversations with students at noting stage of experiment that testified insufficient readiness of future teachers for moral spiritually education of children of preschool age are presented, and that confirmed the need of purposeful work in this direction.

The article considers the poetics of fiction in prose of representatives of Russian literature of Yakutia. It reveals genre identity and folklore and mythological beginning in fantastic prose of writers G. Ugarov and A. Borisova.

The narrative organization of D. Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale is discussed from the point of view of ‘fiction writing’ stereotypical situation foregrounding by means of such cognitive frames as ‘writer’s activity’ ‘biographer’s activity’ ‘literary critic’s activity’. The examples of chapter names show, how the frame process model accentuates the non-fictional discourse within fiction.

The article is dedicated to the research into New Zealand fiction of the renaissance period in the second half of the 20th century. It deals with the novel “The Whale Rider” by the Maori author Witi Ihimaera. Special attention is paid to the characteristics of the hybridization of Maori identity. The article mentions some Maori loanwords, the sentence structure and text reminiscent of oral tradition are characterized, the content is analyzed (description of myths and legends, Maori way of life and the book characters. The author of the present article summarizes some results of the researchers of the Maori language. The author comes to the conclusion that Maori identity as well as New Zealand fiction has a hybridized nature. The research introduces the Maori culture as well as shows that two cultures of New Zealand are closely interwoven.

Where there is economics, there arises historical thinking and science. The role of fiction is considered, therefore, in close connection with teaching economics and history. Fiction and its authors reflected the history of economies of such countries as the USA, England, France and Russia. The article poses some problems and provides a number of examples of using fiction in teaching economics and history. It contains the list of works of native and foreign authors to be used in educational process. Teaching literature provides unconventional process stimulating mental activity of students against the background of information revolution and forms the sphere of competences of future professionals.