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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Russian and Slavic Studies
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Nina Rudnik
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday, 16:00-17:00
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Nina Rudnick
Course/Module description:
The course will survey the evolution of Russian narrative prose against its historic and cultural background. The works of great Russian writers such as Alexander Pushkin, Michael Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Lev Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov and Michael Zschenko will be discussed during the course. The course provides concepts and analytic tools for understanding and interpreting Russian prose fiction.
Course/Module aims:
- acquire necessary knowledge of the historical evolution of Russian narrative prose of the 19th – 20th centuries as an integral part of world literature
- analyze the history of Russian narrative prose using theoretic concepts of narrative literary theory (genre system, style, chronotope and more).
- equip students with the theoretical methods and categories necessary for modern analysis of narrative text
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
– discuss aspects of Russian prose considering the connection between literary movement, form and meaning
– choose analytic tools useful for specific texts
– apply such tools to academic analysis of narrative text
Attendance requirements(%):
80%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Frontal lectures, exercises, presentations
Course/Module Content:
Lesson 1. A. Pushkin, "The Stationmaster"
Lesson 2. A. Pushkin, "The Queen of Spades"
Lessons 3-4. M. Lermontov, "The Hero of Our Time"
Lesson 5. N. Gogol, "The Overcoat"
Lesson 6. I. Turgenev, "A Nest of Gentlefolk" Lesson 7. L. Tolstoy, "The Kreutzer Sonata"
Lesson 8. F. Dostoevsky, "The Eternal Husband"
Lesson 9. N. Leskov, "The Enchanted Wanderer"
Lesson 10. A. Chekhov, "The Lady with the Dog"
Lesson 11. M. Zoshchenko, "Lady Aristocrat"
Required Reading:
Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism: (From the Golden Age to the Silver Age), ed. by B. Gasparov (et al.) (University of California Press, 1992)
Peter J. McCormick. Fictions, Philosophers, and the Problems of Poetics (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988)
Irene Delic. Abolishing Death: A Salvation Myth in Russian Twentieth Century Literature (Stanford University Press. Stanford, 1992)
Mikhail Epstein. PreDictionary. Experiments in Verbal Creativity (New York, 2011)
Liza Knapp. The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) (Northwestern University Press, 1996)
The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture, ed. by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal (Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1997)
Edith W. Clowes. Fiction's Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004)
James P. Scanlan. Russian Thought after Communism: The Recovery of a Philosophical Heritage. (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1994)
Russian Thought and Society, 1800-1917: Essays in Honour of Eugene Lampert, ed. by Roger Bartlett (Keele: University of Keele, 1984)
Additional Reading Material:
See the moodle.
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 65 %
Active Participation / Team Assignment 5 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 10 %
Mid-terms exams 15 %
Attendance / Participation in Field Excursion 5 %
Additional information:
See moodle.
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