The manual reveals the content of those sections of modern theory and methods of teaching literature that will help in understanding and mastering methodological approaches to teaching literature at the present stage and will prepare bachelor students for studying a more scientifically and methodologically complex master's course in methods of teaching literature. The manual is a series of lectures, each of which is accompanied by questions and tasks for independent work, a list of recommended literature. The proposed textbook is addressed to specialist and bachelor students (specialty 050301.65 - “Russian language and literature”; direction of training 050300.62 - bachelor of philological education ); it can also be used when working according to the new standards of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Professional Education “Teacher Education”. The “Introduction” section and lectures 1–7, 10 were written by E.S. Romanicheva, lectures 8–9 by I. V. Sosnovskaya.