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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:
Monday, 15:00-16:00
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Nina Rudnick
Course/Module description:
The course will study a central problem in the development of Russian XIX century literature that of the relationship between literature and folklore. Deep folklore roots are evident in the work of the Russian classic Nikolai Gogol (1809 – 1852) who freely based his stories on the motifs from Russian and Ukrainian folk songs, fairy tales, legends and epic poems. We will examine how Gogol used these rich sources in the context of high literature of the Romanticism. We will study Gogol’s “Ukrainian Stories” and “Petersburg Stories”, his comedies “The Inspector General” and “Marriage” and his epic poem “Dead Souls”. All these texts will be studied against the background of the contemporary Western literature, among others the novels of Laurence Sterne and the stories of E.T.A. Hoffmann. I will use the available rich visual material (painting, theater, and cinema).
Course/Module aims:
The aim of the course is to study the traces of folklore in the works of Nikolai Gogol against the background of the literary evolution towards the Romanticism.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. To acquire the necessary knowledge of the Russian literary development in the first half of the 19 century.
2. To enrich the acquaintance with the system of literary genres in Russian literature of the period.
3. To equip themselves with theoretical methods and categories for the analysis of Gogol’s texts.
4. To improve their analytic ability as regards folklore and literature.
5. To be able to compare Gogol’s innovations as the founder of modern Russian prose with those introduced by other European writers of the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
Attendance requirements(%):
80%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Frontal lectures, reports, presentations
Course/Module Content:
Lesson 1. The Beginning of the writer: from “Hanz Kuechelgarten” to “Evenings on a Farm near Dikan’ka”. “The Fair at Sorochintsy”: Gogol’s Ukraine and the evolution of Russian literature of the 1830th
Lesson 2. The quest for beauty in the “Evenings on a Farm near Dikan’ka”
Lessons 3-4. The Devil and the Sacred in Gogol’s Ukrainian stories (“Evenings on a Farm near Dikan’ka” and “Mirgorod”)
Lesson 5. Materiality and ideality in “The Old Landowners” and “The Two Ivans”
Lesson 6. “Taras Bulba”: the Russian history and heroic epos
Lesson 7. Gogol’s Petersburg in “Petersburg Tales”
Lesson 8. Around “The Nose”: Gogol’s grotesque
Lesson 9. How Gogol’s “Overcoat” was made
Lesson 10. The image of the Russian province in “Inspector General”
Lesson 11. The quest for family: “Ivan Fedorovich Shpon’ka and His Auntie” and “Marriage”
Lessons 12-14. The poem “Dead Souls”. The conclusion of the course
Required Reading:
גוגול, ניקולי וסילייביץ’. ערבי הכפר שליד דיקנקה (תרגום: יצחק אורן), תל אביב: ניומן,
תשכ"ט-1969.
____________סיפורים אוקראיניים (תרגמה מרוסית והוסיפה אחרית דבר: נילי מירסקי), עם עובד, 1980.
________________טאראס בולבה (תרגום: זאב נמירי). תל-אביב: הוצאת גדליה גפני, תשב"ה – 1965.
_______________סיפורים פטרבורגיים (מרוסית: נילי מירסקי), תל אביב: הספריה החדשה, הקיבוץ המאוחד / ספרי סימן קריאה, 1992.
______________רביזור: קומדיה בחמש מערכות (תרגם מרוסית: אברהם שלונסקי), תל אביב: ספרית פועלים, 1982.
____________שידוכין, האדרת, רביזור, ספרית פועלים, תל אביב, 1981.
____________נפשות מתות: פואמה (מרוסית: צבי ארד), דביר, 1992 או נפשות מתות : פואמה (תרגום מרוסית: רנה ליטוין). ]בני ברק] : הקיבוץ המאוחד, תשע"ג 2013.
Propp V.Ya. The Russian folktale [electronic resource] / edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester ; foreword by Jack Zipes. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, [2012]
Driessen, Frederik Christoffel. Gogol as a short-story writer: a study of his technique of composition / translated from the Dutch by Ian F. Finlay. Paris: Mouton, 1965 (selected chapters).
Fanger, Donald. The creation of Nikolai Gogol. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1979 (selected chapters).
Fanger, Donald. Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism. A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol. Chicago & London: the University of Chicago Press, 1967 (selected chapters).
Robert A. Maguire. Exploring Gogol. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994 (selected chapters).
Gogol from the twentieth century: eleven essays / selected, edited, translated, and introduced by Robert A. Maguire. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1974.
Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word / ed. by Priscilla Meyer and Susanne Fusso. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1994.
Gogol: Exploring Absence. Negativity in 19-th Century Russian Literature / ed. by Sven Spieker. Bloomington, Indiana, 1999.
Additional Reading Material:
נבוקוב, ולדימיר. גוגול: ביוגרפיה (תרגם לעברית: דורי פרנס), תל אביב: הוצאת משכל.
P.V. Annenkov. The extraordinary decade : literary memories / ed. by Arthur P. Mendel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1968.
V.V. Zenkovsky. N.V. Gogol. Paris: YMCA Press, 1961.
Propp V.Ya. Morphology of the folktale / translated by Laurence Scott. 2nd ed. rev. & ed. with a preface by Louis A. Wagner; new introd. by Alan Dundes. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968
Bely, Andrey. Gogol’s artistry, trans. Christopher Colbath, foreword by Vyacheslav Ivanov (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2009).
מיכאל בחטין. סוגיות הפואטיקה של דוסטויבסקי / מרוסית: מרים בוסגנג, בהשתתפות דה"ן. תל-אביב : ספרית פועלים, תשל"ח.
מיכאל בחטין. צורות הזמן והכרונוטופ ברומן : מסה על פואטיקה היסטורית / מיכאיל בכטין ; מרוסית: דינה מרקון. אור יהודה : דביר, [תשס"ז], 2007.
Simon Karlinsky. The sexual labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Hans Günter. Das Groteske bei N. V. Gogol’, Formen und Funktionen. Munchen : O. Sagner, 1968.
Davydov, Sergey. ‘Gogol’s Petersburg’, New England Review, 27.1 (2006), 122-7http://www.jstor.org/stable/40244791?seq&eq;1#page_scan_tab_contents
Woodward, James B. Gogol’s Dead souls. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.
William Woodin Rowe. Through Gogol’s looking glass: reverse vision, false focus, and precarious logic. New York: New York University Press, 1976.
Gogol’s “Overcoat”: An Anthology of Critical Essays / ed. by Elizabeth Trahan. Ann Arbor, Ardis, 1982.
Jesse Zeldin. Nikolai Gogol’s quest for beauty: an exploration into his works. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978.
Bojanowska, Edyta M. Nikolai Gogol. Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass., London, England, 2007.
Peace, Richard. The Enigma of Gogol. An Examination of the Writings of N.V. Gogol and their Place in the Russian Literary Tradition. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Fusso, Susanne. Designing dead souls: an anatomy of disorder in Gogol. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Lina Bernstein. Gogol’s last book: the architectonics of selected passages from correspondence with friends. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1994.
Белинский В. Г. О русской повести и повестях г. Гоголя. Несколько слов о поэме Гоголя "Похождения Чичикова, или Мертвые души". Взгляд на русскую литературу 1847 г.
Мочульский К. В. Духовный путь Гоголя // Мочульский К. В. Гоголь. Соловьев. Достоевский. – М., 1999.
Золотусский И.П. Гоголь. – М., 1998.
Бахтин М. М. Рабле и Гоголь: Искусство слова и народная смеховая культура // Бахтин М. М. Вопросы литературы и эстетики. – М., 1975.
Белый А. Мастерство Гоголя: Исследование. – М., 1996.
Гуковский Г.А. Реализм Гоголя. – М., 1959.
Вайскопф, М. Сюжет Гоголя: Морфология. идеология. Контекст. - Москва: Радикс, 1993.
Манн Ю. В. В поисках живой души: Писатель – критик – читатель. – М., 1987.
Манн Ю. В. Поэтика Гоголя: Вариации к теме. – М., 1996.
А. Синявский / Абрам Терц. В тени Гоголя. London: Overseas Publications Interchange, 1975.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 20 %
Participation in Tutorials 15 %
Project work 65 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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