The diversity of Alexei Chugui`s talent: teacher, literary critic, playwright

Abstract

The article highlights the diversity of Alexei Prokopovich Chugyu`s talent as a teacher, literary critic, playwright. It reveales his pedagogical skill secrets, which are primarily shown in expressive, emotional teaching methods, stage temperament, creative energy, sincere taste of humor, high professionalism, boundless devotion to the chosen case and special love for the students.
The article focuses attention on his interesting in theater art, in particular he was actively involved in concerts of rural amateur groups, performing his reading of artistic works and also declared about himself as an unrivaled actor of amateur groups, in particular, student groups that performed theatrical productions by classics of Russian and Ukrainian literature and their plays. Speaking about the Alexei Chugyu`s pedagogical talent, the article stated that Chugyu performed a lot of public tasks, in particular he was dean`s deputy director of the philological faculty, when he was a teacher and subsequently was assistant professor of faculty of Ukrainian literature history .
It was found that while being on the position as a teacher, and later as a professor of history in the Ukrainian literature department, he performed a number of public tasks, in particular, he was Deputy Dean and Acting Dean of the Philological Faculty of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. There was defined range of scientific interests focused on iconic figures in the history of Ukrainian literature like I. Karpenko-Karyi, T. Shevchenko, G. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko and O. Gonchar, writers whose works he admired through his life and who contributed the formation of his aesthetic tastes, love for art in general, words in particular and the choice of a philologist's profession.
It was noted that Alexei Chugyu successfully combines teaching and scientific work with artistic creativity, in particular he declared about himself as an unrivaled playwright in the literary field. There were emphasized main directions in dramatic discourse, in particular political, biographical and experimental ones. Also there were emphasized that Chugyu-playwright is focus on child characters psychology. Admiring the puppet theater as a kind of comedy development of reality, Alexei Prokopovich carried out his own artistic experiment, which gave plays for young readers and spectators as a result.