Vol 22, No 3 (2020)

The subject of the article is paradigm strategies for designing students ' personal development. The main topic is the importance of personal development of students for potential applicants to technical universities. The purpose of the work is to analyze the strategic approaches used in the process of formation and personal development of future competitive specialists. The methodology of the work consists in searching for a set of paradigm-strategic approaches, based on which the principles and methods of formation and personal development of future highly qualified engineering personnel are determined. The results of the work contain an analytical review of paradigm-strategic approaches used in the process of formation and personal development of a future competitive engineer. The scope of the results is the process of training and developing highly qualified, competitive engineers. Conclusion. The set of considered paradigm-strategic approaches used in the formation and personal development of future engineering personnel contributes to the generation of educational results.

The article is a definite solution to the issue related to the development of diagnostic tools, allowing in practice to study understanding as a process and the result of activities in the educational process of students. The author’s questionnaire “Understanding the scientific text” was developed, thereby taking a step towards the development of a diagnostic package of techniques that explore the processes of understanding in learning. Fundamentally new diagnostic techniques are presented, supplementing the Understanding of a Scientific Text questionnaire: G. Keseling’s method “Overcoming Difficulties in the Writing of a Text” translated from German and modified by us, a personality research program adapted to the educational process in relation to environment A. F. Lazursky and S.L. Frank and others.

Subject : Study of the relationship between reading children's literature and the development of imaginative thinking in adolescents. The goal of the article : to reveal the level of formation of image thinking in teenagers aged 11-14 years. Method of research : experimental based on questionnaires. The results of the work . The features of children's literature and the role of reading in childhood and adolescence in different historical periods are considered. The loss of interest to the book in modern society is discussed. The psychological aspects of formation of images of world around children are shown. Own data of questionnaire (projective methods) of teenagers about their representation of literary heroes on the example of Peter Pan J.M. Barrie are analyzed. Characteristic differences in the degree of detailing of images in multi- and low-reading children are revealed. Sex and age differences in the perception of Peter Pan by respondents were noted. Conclusion : Regular reading contributes to richer imaginative thinking.

The article is devoted to the study of implicit learning of perceptual and categorical sequences. The purpose of the conducted research was to reveal the effect of unconscious acquisition of several regularities that belong to the different organization types. In the course of the experiment, the subjects were presented with words belonging to one of the categories (animate and inanimate) and colored in one of four colors (red, yellow, blue or green). The sequence of categories was organized according to a certain rule, or changed randomly. The colours were always alternating in certain order. At the training stage, it was necessary to react to the color of the word. At the test stage, participants were required to press the key corresponding to the word category. There was a significant dynamics in reducing the reaction time to color from the beginning to the end of the training stage. The results of the study showed that the presence or absence of the sequence of categories in the training process does not affect the performance of the test task.

Previous article "the Time of hamlet and Lear time" the authors were devoted to productions of Shakespeare in the theatres of small cities of Russia the Great Shakespearean productions of Yuri Lyubimov, Robert Sturua made to analyze the contemporary productions of Shakespeare's plays in Samara, Voronezh and Novokuybyshevsk. The authors rely on their own methodology and compare "the chronotope of the city" and "the chronotope of the play". A key concept is "dvoeverie": the action takes place in Shakespeare's time, and at the same time on stage presents numerous signs and symbols of modernity. A collage of times, events, and forms one of the stylistic signs of the productions of Shakespeare in the twenty-first century. In the present article also discusses related forms of PR Shakespearean plays, particularly relevant for provincial theatres. As a useful experience describes the exhibition devoted to German productions of hamlet and was held in the Theatre Museum düsseldorf and Munich. It is also about the special "family" shows, hire famous movies and popular Internet games devoted to Shakespeare. Connecting different communicative forms remains true to the motto formulated by G. M. Kozintsev: "Our contemporary William Shakespeare." Conclusion: "Shekspiriana" the XXI century is being implemented in the performances and accompanying PR programmes: exhibitions, publications, intellectual online games. Focused dialogue about Shakespeare with the audience strengthens and expands the audience of the theatre.

The article discusses the development of architecture of the 20th century in different countries. The analysis of the prerequisites of the chosen path of development of architecture and society is carried out. The positive and negative aspects of the humanitarian approach in architectural activity and the formation of the identification features of cities are revealed through the perception of buildings and structures by society. It is concluded that it is necessary to search for a unified approach for shaping the city’s appearance, depending on the cultural characteristics of the region, the geographical location of the area, climate, and social and humanitarian values of a particular demographic group of the population.

The article explores various modifications of the Cinderella story in different cultures. The degree of adaptation of this well-known work to the culture of different countries is determined, the most typical modifications of the fairy tale are identified, the reasons for modifications when including the fairy tale in the cultural heritage of their country. A list of fairy-tale elements that undergo the most frequent modification through cultural adaptation is given.

Object of the article: The article discusses the structure and meaning of the riddle of the Sphinx in the Oedipus myth. Subject of the article: The author describes the semantic similarity between the riddle and Oedipus, based on the common motif of the feet. The riddle of the Sphinx and Oedipus's answer to it are analyzed as a single narrative sequence, consisting of two descriptions of the riddle's object: one figurative - of the developmental stages of human life; one literal - of the figure of a horseman, conveying one of the central motifs which repeats itself throughout the story of Oedipus. This recent finding indicates an added dramatic motif to underscore the decline and disgrace of the tragic figure of Oedipus. Goal of the research: The author argues that the motif of a horseman emerges in the riddle as a result of combining the properties from two objects belonging to different classes (a “two-footed” creature - a baby, human being; with a “four-footed” creature - an animal, e.g., horse) into one single object. This becomes possible due to the predicate ὀχούμενον, a participle form of the verb ὀχέω, which has various meanings: “ride”, ”let another ride”, ”have oneself borne”, ”to be borne or carried”, for example, on a horse's back. The article shows that the same pattern, based on the combination of a two-footed (human being) with a four-footed (animal) into a single image of a horseman, is reproduced and revealed at different levels of the myth. As the story unfolds, the motif of a horseman, camouflaged in the riddle of the Sphinx, develops and reveals itself many times in different images: ”Laius riding a horse-drawn chariot”, ”Ismene riding on a horse”, before it culminates at the end of Oedupus's life in the equestrian statue of Colonus. Research methodology: The author employs linguistic data and adopts a structural-semantic approach in his analysis. Results: The article shows that the image of a horseman, coded in the riddle by merging the properties of two objects - “two-footed” (human being) and “four-footed” (animal) - is a symbolic microcosm in which the macrocosm of the myth as well as of its central figures - Oedipus and the Sphinx - are reflected. Analyzing the common features of the equestrian statue of Colonus and the image of the Sphinx, the author argues that the motif of a “horseman” is related to the motif of a “living statue” through the ability to use “voice”. Field of application: literary studies, structural poetics, mythological studies, classics. Conclusion: The motif of a centaur-like horseman (as a combination of “human” and “animal”) concealed in the riddle of the Sphinx, reappears and repeats itself throughout the story. This recurrent motif foreshadows the decline and disgrace of the tragic hero who violates the separation of human and animal by committing patricide and incest, thus becoming half-human and half-animal. The same motif recapitulates at the end of the story in the centaur-like statue of Colonus atop a horse, who embodies Poseidon, the god of horses and the guardian of the sacred site where Oedipus finds his final resting place after a long pilgrimage from pollution to rutual purification. The recurrent horseman motif illuminates the sub-surface Oedipus's drama containing the riddle of the ambiguity between human, animal and god.