Rus 224/WL
224
Course Schedule
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TOPIC |
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Jan. 11 |
Introduction Survey of 20th
century Russian history |
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Jan. 16 |
Survey
continued |
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Jan. 18 |
Chekhov’s
drama |
Chekhov, “The
Seagull” in Reeve |
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Jan. 23 |
Neo-Realism |
Gorky,
“Twenty Six. . .” in Luker; “The Lower
Depths” in Reeve |
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Jan. 25 |
Neo-Realism |
Kuprin: “The
Garnet Bracelet” in Luker or Proffer; Andreev: “Seven Who Were Hanged”
in Luker |
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Jan. 30 |
Neo-Realism Bunin |
Bunin:
“Gentleman from |
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Feb. 1 |
Symbolism |
Blok: “The
Puppet Show” in Reeve; Blok poems in Brown and Markov; Andreev, “He Who
Gets Slapped” in Reeve |
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Feb. 6 |
Symbolism |
Bely poems in
Markov Markov, pp.
47-49, 139 |
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Feb. 8 |
Bely’s |
Bely, |
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Feb. 13 |
Acmeism |
Akhmatova
poems in Brown and Markov Mandelshtam poems in Brown and Markov |
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Feb. 15 |
Exam #1 |
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Feb. 20 |
Futurism |
Mayakovsky,
“The Bedbug” in Reeve, poems in Markov; Khlebnikov,
“Nikolai” in Brown, poems in Markov |
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Feb. 22 |
Other poetry Literature
after the Revolution |
Esenin poems
in Markov; Tsvetaeva poems in Markov |
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Feb. 27 |
The 1920’s |
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March 1 |
The 1920’s |
Zamyatin, We |
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March 6 |
The 1920’s |
Olesha,
“Envy” in Brown |
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March 8 |
1930’s Socialist
Realism |
Platonov in
Brown |
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March 20 |
Bulgakov |
Master and
Margarita |
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March 22 |
WWII and after Soviet Drama |
Zoshchenko
stories in Brown Shvarts, “The
Shadow” in Reeve |
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March 27 |
Émigré
Literature |
Nabokov in
Brown |
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March 29 |
Exam #2 |
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April 3 |
The Thaw Pasternak |
Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago |
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April 5 |
Pasternak Poets of the
50’s and 60’s |
Markov , pp.
773-805 |
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April 10 |
Solzhenitsyn |
Solzhenitsyn,
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
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April 12 |
Samizdat |
Sinyavsky,
“Phkentz” in Brown |
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April 17 |
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Shukshin;
Rasputin |
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April 19 |
The Brezhnev
era |
Shalamov in
Brown; Sokolov in Brown |
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April 24 |
The Brezhnev
era |
Vladimov in
Brown |
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April 26 |
Voinovich |
Voinovich, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin |
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May 1 |
Glasnost and
Perestroika |
Petrushevskaya
and Tolstaya in Goscilo and Lindsey. |
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May 3 |
Post-Soviet
Trends |
Pelevin |
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May 7 |
COMPREHENSIVE
FINAL EXAMINATION |
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20th-century Russian Literature Course Page
Andrew M.
Drozd
adrozd@bama.ua.edu
The University of
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