The textbook substantiates the essence of the methodology and methods of literary education, focused on the ideas of the school of educating a “person of culture”. Based on the dialogical nature of the modern lesson, the author proposes a pedagogical technology for studying a work of art as a cultural text, reveals the essence of dialogue in culture and dialogue of cultures. Particular attention is paid to the theoretical foundations of integration in literature lessons, the connection of literature with music, painting, sculpture, landscape art and architecture. The final section of the manual is presented by a system of lessons of different types and types on the study of literature in the context of culture. The manual is addressed to teachers of literature and world artistic culture, methodologists, philology students and graduate students in the humanities.