Vol 26, No 4 (2024)

Professional and personal development and professional education of students are among the urgent problems of higher education, including pedagogical education. Being in the teaching profession, a young specialist should be aware of responsibility for the actions performed, understand their consequences, and possess those qualities that would meet the challenges and demands of modern society. Pedagogical universities face a difficult task to organize the educational process in such a way that it ensures sufficient assimilation of knowledge, contributes to the formation of necessary professional skills and value orientations. The socio-cultural environment of the university, aimed at mastering the norms of relationships, communication, and leisure activities by students, plays a separate role in the implementation of this task. One of the elements of the socio-cultural environment of the Samara State Socio-Pedagogical University is the civil-patriotic project "89.rus", the purpose, content and meaning of which are disclosed in this article. The methodology of a number of events is described. Among them are a lecture on the history of the state symbols of the Russian Federation, the civic and patriotic games "Victory" and "Russia is my country". Examples of individual tasks used when working with students are presented, information support for the project is demonstrated on the website of the Department of General Biology, Ecology and Teaching Methods, as well as on the pages of the textbook "A short course on the basics of Russian Statehood". It is concluded that the developed project ensures the personal and professional development of future teachers.

The paper analyzes creative reinterpretation which is one of the most important tools to be used when translating various kinds of literary works. A number of characteristic features makes such works different from journalistic, science and technical or legal texts. A translator is to consider these features in order to perform his job properly. For example, a translator should bear in mind that a literary work not only performs a communicative function of a language. In addition to bringing certain information to a recipient, these works are intended to have an emotional and esthetic impact. Such impact is one of the manifestations of an author’s original intention, and it is a translator’s duty to make all kinds of efforts to properly bring both the original’s content and features of its expression forms to a recipient. One of the methods to achieve this goal is creative reinterpretation of an original text. Such translation problem doesn’t have any ready-made solutions, which means that future specialists should put much effort to master the skill of creative interpretation. In other words, forming the skill of creative interpretation is one of the most important tasks in teaching both a foreign language and translation practice.

This article describes various aspects of organization of engineering activities of students of mechanical   profile at technical university. It also discusses personal needs of students and general methodological principles leading to effective training of engineering and graphic disciplines in a computerized teaching environment. Theoretical provisions are illustrated by examples from the students' engineering activities carried out in the process of project-oriented study of engineering and computer graphics. Various innovative forms of work on educational material in modules motivate students to in-depth study and creative processing of the acquired knowledge, formation of professional skills and engineering culture. In result of project activities students acquire skills to present their developments to potential consumers and employers, learn how to pass interview with manager, get acquainted with structure of professional activity. This helps to increase their competitiveness in job market in the future and motivation for educational activities in the present. The developed engineering cases contain professionally directed references and theoretical materials for all educational modules. They describe the basic principles, methods and concepts of mechanical engineering, basic skills in the field of computer-aided design. Certain technical and economic conditions are set in order to develop machine-building parts, assemblies, assembly products, original author's models based on computer technology. The used COMPASS-3D computer program has effective reference support for all modules studied in the field of computer-aided design. At any stage of their work students can also turn to a fairly extensive list of Internet links on the interested issues. All this contributes to creation of situation of success for a student, formation of integrative personality traits necessary in further professional activity.

The object of the study is the phenomenon of global responsiveness, manifested in Russian artistic culture. The subject of the scientific work is the figurative realizations of this phenomenon in modern poetry. The material for the article is the poetry of cultural scientist, philosopher and poet Vadim Lvovich Rabinovich, namely his poetry selection from the literary and socio-political magazine "Friendship of Peoples". The hermeneutic analysis focuses on the figurative realizations of the phenomenon of global responsiveness in the poet's poetry selection, which manifests Eastern European and Russian cultural traditions associated with the eidology of love and death, knowledge of the Other. We turn to Pushkin's text at the typological level, views on the art of artists of the modernist era. We consider in detail the concept of "entelechy", without which it is impossible to make a methodological breakthrough in terms of understanding the phenomenon of global responsiveness. The results of the study consist in identifying the cultural and philosophical potential of modern poetry for further study of the problem of global responsiveness in Russian artistic culture and its national existence. The results of the work may be of interest to literary scholars who include literature in the space of a large dialogue of cultures, and can also be used in teaching courses on cultural studies and philosophy.

The article is dedicated to the last piano sonata by Franz Schubert. The Sonata B-flat major is written in the composer’s last year of life. The first great compositor of the era of musical romanticism inherited from the Viennese classics sonata form, principles of musical drama, characteristic features of the polyphonic tissue organization. At the same time, in the sonata he introduces elements of variation development that extensively expand the sonata’s allegro. The song and dance genres characteristic of Schubert’s instrumental music play an important role in the Sonata B-flat major. Multi-genre deepens the figurative sphere, complicates musical dramaturgy. On the border between Viennese classicism and emerging romanticism, there is a particular tension. Here it is possible to cross previously impassable boundaries – tonal, scale, genre and figurative. The presentiments of a near end of life have left their mark on all of Sonata’s music. The world of content is filled with extra-musical meanings, each one becoming a perspective of the theme – a transition from being to being. The first part tells about the life of a lyric hero standing at the last line. The second one is about crossing this boundary, and it’s about an imaginary crossing of a river. The river separates the world of the living from that of the dead. The third part is Skerzo – the ghost world of memories. The finale is dedicated to overcoming the delicate imperative of the minor, searching for a way into the light world, illuminated by the radiant tonality of B-flat major.

The article provides a historical overview of such a literary and artistic phenomenon as a comic book in the United States of America. The most popular definition of a comic book in special literature to date has been characterized. The history of the appearance of the comic book and its individual artistic features are examined in detail. Conclusions have been drawn about the origin of comics in Europe and their gradual spread to the United States. The most significant works of European authors (R. Töpfer, W. Busch) and the first American authors (R. Outcolt, W. Mackay and G. Herriman) are considered. It is shown how, after the first stages of development, a specific, purely American comic book genre began to form - superhero comics (superheroics) and its influence on the entire further history of these works in America. The periodization of the history of the comic book by "centuries," characteristic features of comics of each century, the most iconic or typical works of each of these periods, is considered. In addition, the works of the most iconic and important authors and artists of the superhero comic book genre are considered and the development of other comic book genres, as well as the influence of the state and the specific historical situation on the subject of works, are characterized. The article is based on scientific and popular science literature on the topic of research.

The article is devoted to the life and work of the outstanding artist, writer and teacher Anatoly Georgievich Pesigin, who made a great contribution to the development of Russian art in the second half of the 20th century. During this rather difficult historical period for our country, culture faced an important task, which was to continue the formation and dissemination of new values of the Soviet state. In many ways, the solution of this issue was facilitated, among other things, by the creative activity of the portrait painter A.G. Pesigin. The creative path and stages of development of creative ideas, means of expression and themes of works in the process of searching for an individual language are considered. An example and characteristics of works from the initial period of creativity, brought up by the traditions of the academic school of the Penza Art School, are given. As well as the turning point and transformation of the creative method during the “thaw” period. The period of creation of graphic works in a characteristic linear manner in the process of illustrating books of Samara poets and writers is studied separately. In addition, the special pedagogical activity of Anatoly Georgievich was noted in educating young artists, effective forms and methods of working with students aimed at developing their creative abilities and desire to understand the world.

This article addresses the problem of contemporary European vision of the results of World War II through the prism of cinema, namely, a specific genre: horror. The images created in this genre by Norwegian and French directors are analyzed: Standartenführer, Germans, Soviet soldiers. The material is two relatively well-known films of the horror-comedy (black humor) subgenre («Operation "Dead Snow" (2009), «Operation "Dead Snow 2" (2014) (Norway) and the slasher «Underground Horror» (2022) (France, Belgium). The balance of power in these films, when the victory over zombies (German soldiers who have turned into the living dead) is won either by Europeans and Americans, or by representatives of national minorities, is, from the author’s point of view, the code of modern culture in the West, when the role of Soviet troops in the Victory over fascism is hushed up, when gays or representatives of national minorities act as heroes; when the Second World War becomes the subject of a comedy comprehension with an admixture of trash. Such a code differs significantly from the one that existed in literature and cinema of the immediate post-war period (in the second half of the 20th century), when living witnesses (war participants) were more numerous and moral values ​​were somewhat different. This prism of artistic vision of the Second World War is justified by the nature of postmodern thinking and the demand for this kind of film production among Western viewers.