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Abstract: The article is devoted to scientific and methodological heritage of R. F. Brandesov. The object of analysis is his textbooks on the organization of artistic perception in the literature lessons. The author considers key ideas, discoveries of the scientist in the field of methods of teaching literature (aesthetics, didactics, emotional resonance, literature classes, setting, independent analysis of text, music illustration, creativity of language and literature teacher) and correlates them with modern challenges in the field of literary education. The trends that determine the relevance of Brandesov's method are outlined in the article. The pragmatic orientation of the reader's choice and formalization of teaching literature are the outcomes of the information society. The peculiarities of reading of students, lack of personal motivation to reading and the difficulty in understanding the meaning are the modern realities. The stimulation of emotional resonance, emotional perception is, in Brandesov, the condition of education of a qualified reader. The work of the scientist put forward creativity of teachers and students in the class of literature. Attention of modern school to the meta-subject content of literary education brings R. F. Brandesov's methods back to life, in which he saw metamethodology for aesthetic disciplines. The method of teaching literature is qualified in the article as a synthesis of traditions and innovations.