Rus 223/WL 223 Course Schedule

WEEK	TOPIC	READING
Aug. 24	Introduction Early Russian Literature
Aug. 29	18^th century Russian Literature	“The Minor”
Aug. 31	Sentamentalism “Poor Liza”	Karamzin, "Poor Liza"
Sep. 5	Pre-Romanticism	Griboedov, “The Trouble with Reason”
Sep. 7	Griboedov Romanticism	Pushkin, "The Station Master,"
Sep. 12	Pushkin	"The Queen of Spades,”
Sep. 14	Pushkin	Eugene Onegin
Sep. 19	Pushkin Lermontov	“Boris Godunov”
Sep. 21	Lermontov	Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
Sep. 26	Lermontov
Sep. 28	Exam #1
Oct. 3	The Natural School Gogol	“The Overcoat,"
Oct. 5	Gogol	“The Inspector General”
Oct. 10	Gogol Realism	Gogol, Dead Souls (Part 1)
Oct. 12	Turgenev	Turgenev, "Bezhin Meadow,"
Oct. 17	Turgenev	Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Oct. 19	Literature of the Radicals: Chernyshevskii Saltykov-Shchedrin	Leskov, "Lady McBeth of Mtsensk District"
Oct. 24	Leskov Goncharov Pisemsky	Ostrovsky, “The Storm”
Oct. 26	Drama
Oct. 31	Dostoevsky	Dostoevsky, "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,"
Nov. 2	Exam #2
Nov. 7	Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment
Nov. 9	Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment
Nov. 14	Dostoevsky Literary Criticism Literary Polemics	Crime and Punishment
Nov. 16	Tolstoy	Tolstoy, "God Sees the Truth But Waits," "The Death of Ivan Ilych,"
Nov. 21	Tolstoy	Tolstoy, “The Power of Darkness”, Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Nov. 28	Tolstoy	Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Nov. 30	Tolstoy	Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Dec. 1	Tolstoy	Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Dec. 5	Late 19^th century Realism
Dec. 7	Chekhov	Chekhov, "Heartache," "Gooseberries," "Anna on the Neck," "The Darling"
Dec. 15	COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAMINATION

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Andrew M. Drozd
adrozd@bama.ua.edu
The University of Alabama
Last Update: 8/22/06