Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Abai KazNPU B.S. Zhumagulova gave a public lecture at the Pomeranian University of Slupsk (Poland) on the topic: "Cognitive analysis of a work of fiction".


The focus was on thoughtful reading of N. Gogol`s story "The Old World Landowners", which has a lot of interesting details. The great writer engaged the main sensory channels of human perception of reality: auditory (singing doors); visual (I see a low house); kinesthetic (flavour details: jam, jelly, marshmallow, made with honey, sugar; sensation of temperature (these rooms were terribly warm); digital (the narrator`s reasoning: God! - I thought looking at him - five years of all-exterminating time - the old man is already insensitive, the old man...), so everyone will remember this artwork by taking the book "Mirgorod" and starting reading ... Based on the algorithm of cognitive analysis, the lecturer together with the audience opened the world of Gogol, accompanied by intriguing facts from the writer`s life. Step by step the students got acquainted with the universal textual categories of the semantic space of the story - with the characters of the work, with the peculiarities of the representation of the category of time, with the nuances of the organisation of the text space, with important and unimportant events of the story. After the lecture one of the students asked a question: Why did the narrator call the place of cooking a chemical laboratory in the story? He got the answer.



Will you also be able to find the answer after reading this story?