To other weekly assignments: [1], [2], [3], [4], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14].
READINGS:
Dostoevsky. "White Nights" in Notes from Underground. White
Nights. Ridiculous Man. House of the Dead. (55pp.)
Knopf. St. Petersburg [Guide]. (pp.122-126) [Views of St. P.
by Dostoevsky ("White Nights" excerpt) and other 19th cent. authors].
"White Nights" (note)(p.275). "From Smolny to the Alexander Nevsky
Monastery" (pp.252-254) [find Dostoevsky's final resting place].
"Among Friends" (p.120).
WEB TOPICS:
READINGS:
George. St. Petersburg: Russia's Window to the Future.... Chapter 10 "Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg" intro:pp.328-330; "Poor Folk" pp.336-339; "Literary Petersburg" pp.355-359; "Dostoevsky's Final Years" pp.368-369
Dostoevsky. Notes from Underground in Notes from Underground. White
Nights. Ridiculous Man. House of the Dead. (113pp.) [Part One -
33pp of tortured thought; Part Two - 80pp of story]
WEB TOPICS:
READINGS:
Dostoevsky. Excerpts from Part I of Crime and Punishment
Norton Critical Edition. (Xerox) (40pp.)
Knopf. St. Petersburg [Guide]. From the Admiralty to
the Haymarket: Dostoevsky District (pp.206-210); Dostoevsky Museum (p.240)
WEB TOPICS:
Back to the main Petersburg course page.
Back to the Russian at St. Lawrence Page.
last update: 2/14/04
MONDAY - February 16
(Dostoevsky). [Find out some general information
about Dostoevsky - his life and works.]
Feodor Dostoevsky and Petrashevsky's Case. From "Olga's Gallery." Essay with pictures (artists featured: Vasily Perov and Pavel Fedotov).
The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity; St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra. From "Orthodox cathedrals and churches of St. Petersburg" site. Boris Kuznetsov.
Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. At the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
Page from Peterlink.
*The City of White Nights Saint Petersburg. An article by Lev Stone
(who tries to explain the magic of this city).
White Nights - A Year Later. Album 115. From "Wandering Camera."
The Kriukov Channel. A woodcut of where the White Nights dreamer
hero would take his walks. From "dux.ru."
White Nights in St. Petersburg. Description from Cityvision 2000.
White Nights. Several photos and a brief text. Design by Zh.
TUESDAY - February 17
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground. Study notes from Professor
Gary R. Jahn, University of Minnesota.
Fiction and Essay Webpage. By Professor Tom Hall, Valparaiso
University. Contains a good brief introduction to Notes...
along with some study questions.
Study Guide for Notes from Underground. By Professor Paul Brians
(Department of English, Washington State University).
Kant's Aesthetics in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. Critical
essay by David A. Goldfarb (paper delivered at the
Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Columbia University, 18 March 1995).
THURSDAY - February 19
. (Where Raskolnikov witnesses a
suicide attempt.),
Chapel on the Nikolaevsky bridge. (Place where Raskolnikov
walks.),
Sennaya Square. (Where Raskolnikov bows down to the earth.)
Woodcuts from "dux.ru."
Carpenter Lane. (Where Raskolnikov lived.),
Ekaterininsky cannel. (Setting for some of the events
of Crime and Punishment.),
104 Ekaterinninsky chanel. (The pawnbroker's house.),
Voznesensky bridge
Excursions - St. Petersburg. From "St-Petersburg Dux Comp."
[Scroll down and take the excursion "St-Petersburg of Dostoevsky in
painting of B. Kostigov."]
Dostoyevsky Memorial Museum. Page from Cityvision 2000.
Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment. Study notes from Professor
Gary R. Jahn, University of Minnesota.
Crime and Punishment Summary & Study Guide. From Professor
Beyer at Middlebury College.
Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment: Overview.
From T. Hall. [Good explanation of the "Role of Buffoonery" (Marmeladov
et al). Also interesting comments on "Nihilism and Crime" and his overview
on "Notes from the Underground."]
