Eugene Onegin. Chpts.1,2 (21pp.)
Lecture: "Poetics" (Euphony, Rhythm, and Metre)
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Eugene Onegin. Chpts.3,4
(46pp.)
Video excerpts from the Tchaikovsky opera
"Eugene Onegin" (Tatiana's letter to Onegin)
Lecture: "Poetics" (Style and Stylistics)
Eugene Onegin. Chpts.5,6.
(44pp.)
Video excerpts from the opera (the duel)
Lecture: "Poetics" (Image, Metaphor, Symbol, Myth)
Eugene Onegin. Chpts.7,8. (54pp.)
Video
excerpts from opera (Onegin meets Tatyana again)
HAND
IN: analysis of one stanza of Eugene Onegin
Lermontov: "Taman" [1840](13pp.);
"Death of a Poet" [1837] (2pp.) and assorted poems (7pp.).
[xerox]
Lecture: "Translating Poetry"
Gogol: "The Nose" [1836] (29pp.).
Discussion:How to film "The Nose"
Lecture: "Literature
and the Other Arts"
HAND IN: own translation of
Lermontov poem
Fonvizin: The
Infant [1782](74pp)
Lecture: "Russian drama"
Gogol: Government
Inspector Acts 1-3 [1836](50pp); "Introduction"
[xerox]
Video: Excerpts from "The Inspector General"
(Hollywood and Russian versions)
Gogol:
Government Inspector Acts 4-5 [1836](45pp)
Video:
Excerpts from "The Inspector General" (Hollywood and Russian
versions)
Turgenev: "Bezhin Lea" [1851](25pp.);
Fathers and Sons [1862] Chpts.1-9 (31pp.)
Lecture: "The Nature
and Modes of Narrative Fiction"
Fathers and Sons. Chpts.10-15
(28pp.)
The section: "The Author on the Novel" (21pp.)
[after the text of F&S]
Fathers and Sons. Chpts.16-20 (34pp.)
Criticism:
D.S.Mirsky (22pp.) [xerox]and Matlaw (5pp)[after the text of
F&S, 1989 Edition]
"The Contemporary Reaction"
Pisarev's article (23pp.)[after the text of F&S, 1989 Edition]
Fathers
and Sons. Chpts. 21-24 (34pp.)
ORAL REPORTS
(Assigned from the criticism)
Fathers and Sons. Chpts.25-28 (29pp.)
ORAL REPORTS (Assigned from the criticism)
Lecture: "Literature and Ideas"
Dostoevsky:"Strange Man's Dream" [1877]
(24pp.)
HAND IN: short paper on Fathers and Sons
Discussion: "Literature on TV"
Excerpts from
Dostoevsky:Crime and
Punishment [1866]: Part One.Chpts.2,6,7
(40pp.)[xerox]
Video: "Crime and Punishment"
(Masterpiece Theater)
Leskov:"The Make-up
Artist" [1883](26pp.)
Chekhov:
"The Party" [1888](38pp.)
Lecture:
"Literature and Society"
MIDTERM EXAM
Chekhov: "Ward Six" [1892](53pp.)
[xerox]
Garshin: "The Scarlet Flower"
[1883](19pp.)
Lecture: "Literature and Psychology"
Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
[1897](43pp.) [xerox]
HAND IN: short paper discussing
one character in the play Uncle Vanya
(Option: you may put off this assignment and write about the
play Ascent of Mount Fuji, due Dec.2nd or
Cinzano, due Dec.13th.)
Tolstoy: "After the
Ball" [1911] (12pp.) and Anna Karenina [1877] Part VII:
chpts.V-XII (20pp.) [xerox]
Lecture: "Literature
and Biography"
Excerpts from Tolstoy:
Anna Karenina [1877] Part XXIII-XXXI
(28pp.)[xerox]
Film, Video and Radio excerpts from
"Anna Karenina"
Discussion: "Radio vs. Film and TV
adaptations of literature"
Gorky:
"Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" [1899](17pp.)
Analysis:
Approaches to Gorky's "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl"
Lecture:
"Literature: Definitions and Distinctions / Literature's
`Mode of Existence'"
Discussion/Review:
"What is literature anyway?"
Andreev: "Grand Slam"
[1899](11pp.). Bunin:
"Ida" [1926](10pp.)
Babel: "Guy
de Maupassant" [1932](9pp.).Zamiatin:
"The Lion" [1935](6pp.)
HAND IN: A critical study of one of the above four
stories. (Option: you may put off this writing assignment and
do the one for Nov. 11th instead.)
Polevoi:
He Came Back. (138--very small--pp.)
[xerox]
Writer's Union.
A page from "The Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers."
Lecture: "Official Soviet Literature"
Platonov: "The Third Son"
[1937](8pp.). Nagibin:
"Winter Oak" [1953](12pp.)
Lecture: "Socialist Realism--the
bad and the good kind"
Ilf and Petrov:
"How the Soviet Robinson Was Created" [1933] (4pp.)[xerox]
Zoshchenko [all xerox]: "The Lady
Aristrocat" [1923](4pp); "The Bathhouse" [1925](3pp); "An
Incident on the Volga" (4pp); "Dog Scent" [1924](3pp.)
"Poverty" [1925](3pp); "The Adventures of an Ape" [1946](7pp)
Lecture: "Humor and Other Means of Literary Protest -
and the Consequences"
Nabokov:
"Spring in Fialta" [1938](23pp.).
Paustovsky: "Streams Where Trout
Play"[1944](6pp.). Kazakov: "On the
Island" [1958](18pp.). Solzhenitsyn:
"Zakhar-the-Pouch"
[1966](16pp.)
HAND IN: A critical study of one of the
above four stories (only required if you did not do Nov.1st's
written assignment).
Trifonov: "The Exchange"
[1969](50pp.)Lecture: "Literary History"
Shukshin
: "Snowball Berry Red" [1973](70pp.) [scenario]
Video:
excerpts from "Snowball Berry Red" (Russian film)
Bitov: "Life in Windy Weather"
[1963-64](30pp.)
Lecture: "Literary Evaluation"
Iskander:"Belshazzar's Feast"(from Sandro from Chegem
1973-1981)(44pp.)
Lecture: "Stalin literature"
Literature Under Stalin.
About Stalin. [Two pages from the web site
by Andrew Pfouts.]
Aksenov: "The Steel Bird"
[1965](54pp.)
Lecture: "Russian Literature--One Literature or
Two"
Aitmatov: Ascent of Mount
Fuji. [1973] (103pp) [xerox]
HAND IN: short paper
discussing one character in the play Ascent of Mount Fuji.
(If you did not write on Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya you may
still, as an option, put off this assignment and write about the
play Cinzano, due Dec.13th.)
Sokolov
: "A School for Fools" (Chpts.1-3)[1976](50pp.)
Discussion:
"What is this novel all about?!"
Sokolov
: "A School for Fools" (Chpts.4-5)(78pp.)
Discussion:
"What the critics say about 'A School for Fools'"
Rasputin: "Downstream" (50pp.)
Petrushevskaya: "Nets and Traps"
[a monologue] [1974](15pp) [xerox]
Tolstaya: "Sweet Shura" [1987](11pp.) [xerox]
Lecture: "Women Writers in Russia"
Petrushevskaya: Cinzano (and translator's notes)
(10pp) [xerox]
Lecture "The Current Literary Scene in
Russia."
HAND IN: short paper discussing one character
in the play Cinzano (Only if you did not do this assignment
already, i.e. write on a character in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya,
or in Aitmatov'sAscent of Mount Fuji.)
