RU 151: Russian Literature's Golden Age
  

RU 151
Schedule

Day Time Location
Monday 11:25-12:15 Chateau B
Wednesday 11:25-12:15 Chateau B
Friday 11:25-12:15 Chateau B
Tentative Class Schedule:

 WEEK ONE

Sept. 13 Introduction

Sept. 15 Karamzin, "Poor Liza" (1792) Selected poems by Pushkin

Sept. 17 Pushkin, Tales of Belkin (1830): "From the Editor" & "The Shot"

 WEEK TWO

Sept. 20 Pushkin, Tales of Belkin: "The Blizzard" & "The Undertaker"

Sept. 22 Pushkin, Tales of Belkin: "The Postmaster" & "The Squire's Daughter" The unity of the tales: is there a common denominator?

Sept. 24 Pushkin, "The Queen of Spades" (1833) Is there a natural or supernatural explanation of the mystery?

 WEEK THREE

Sept. 27 Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time (1840), to p. 64

[Sept. 29 Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time, to p. 129]

Sept. 30 FILM: Oblomov

[Oct. 1 Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time, to end
What is the effect of narrating the events in this order?]

 WEEK FOUR

Oct. 4 Gogol, "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" (1831) & "Diary of a Madman" (1835)

Oct. 6 Gogol, "The Nose" (1836)

Oct. 8 Gogol, "The Overcoat" (1842) What do "The Overcoat" and "The Nose" have in common?

 WEEK FIVE

Oct. 11 Pavlova, A Double Life (1848)

Oct. 13 Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (1862)

Oct. 15 Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (1862)
**MIDTERM STORY DUE**

 WEEK SIX

Oct. 18 Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (1862)

Oct. 20 Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

--Break-- start 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. 25 Chernyshevsky, What Is to Be Done?, to 243

Oct. 27 Chernyshevsky, What Is to Be Done?, to 344

Oct. 29 Chernyshevsky, What Is to Be Done? to end.

 WEEK EIGHT

Nov. 1 Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1864)

Nov. 3 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, (1866) Part 1

Nov. 5 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part 2

 WEEK NINE

Nov. 8 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part 3

Nov. 10 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part 4

Nov. 12 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part 5

 WEEK TEN +

Nov. 15 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part 6 & Epilogue

Nov. 17 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1873-6), Part 1

Nov. 19 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 2

Nov. 22 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 3

--Thanksgiving break--

 WEEK ELEVEN

Nov. 29 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 4

Dec. 1 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 5

Dec. 3 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 6

 WEEK TWELVE

Dec. 6 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 7

Dec. 8 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 8

Dec. 10 Conclusion. FINAL PAPERS due