| WEEK ONE |
Sept. 14 Introduction
Sept. 16 Karamzin, "Poor Liza" (1792) Selected poems by Pushkin
Sept. 18 Pushkin, Tales of Belkin (1830): "From the Editor"
& "The Shot" |
| WEEK TWO |
Sept. 21 Pushkin, Tales of Belkin: "The Blizzard" &
"The Undertaker"
Sept. 23 Pushkin, Tales of Belkin: "The Postmaster"
& "The Squire's Daughter" The unity of the tales: is there
a common denominator?
Sept. 25 Pushkin, "The Queen of Spades" (1833) Is there a natural
or supernatural explanation of the mystery? |
| WEEK THREE |
Sept. 28 Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time (1840), to p. 64
Sept. 30 Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time, to p. 129
Oct. 2 Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time, to end
What is the effect of narrating the events in this order? |
| WEEK FOUR |
Oct. 5 Gogol, "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" (1831)
& "Diary of a Madman" (1835)
Oct. 7 Gogol, "The Nose" (1836)
Oct. 9 Gogol, "The Overcoat" (1842) What do "The Overcoat"
and "The Nose" have in common? |
| WEEK FIVE |
Oct. 12 Pavlova, A Double Life (1848)
Oct. 14 Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (1862)
--Break-- |
| WEEK SIX |
Oct. 19 Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (1862)
**MIDTERM STORY DUE**
Oct. 21 Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Oct. 23 Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, Chernyshevsky, What Is
to Be Done? (1863), to 139, Read Pt. 6 (2 pp.) first to be able to figure
out what happened. |
| WEEK SEVEN |
Oct. 26 Chernyshevsky, What Is to Be Done?, to 243
Oct. 28 Chernyshevsky, What Is to Be Done?, to 344
Oct. 30 Chernyshevsky, What Is to Be Done? to end. |
| WEEK EIGHT |
Nov. 2 Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1864)
Nov. 4 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, (1866) Part 1
Nov. 6 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part 2 |
| WEEK NINE |
Nov. 9 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part 3
Nov. 11 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part 4
Nov. 13 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part 5 |
| WEEK TEN + |
Nov. 16 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part 6 & Epilogue
Nov. 18 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1873-6), Part 1
Nov. 20 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 2
Nov. 23 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 3
--Thanksgiving break-- |
| WEEK ELEVEN |
Nov. 30 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 4
Dec. 2 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 5
Dec. 4 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 6 |
| WEEK TWELVE |
Dec. 7 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 7
Dec. 9 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 8
Dec. 11 Conclusion. FINAL PAPERS due |
