Postgraduate Course: The Great Russian Novel in European Context (CLLC11185)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course will study 19th-century Russian novel and its links with European literature. |
| Course description |
The course comprises a detailed study of the novels penned by Pushkin, Gogol, Goncharov, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, including "Eugene Onegin", "Dead Souls", "Oblomov", "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", "Devils" and one chapter from "The Brothers Karamazov" (The Great Inquisitor).
The study of the novels will explore the construction of Russian and European identities; the use of foreign languages; and numerous references to European literature and culture. The MSc students will work on essays that have comparative topics.
The course also incorporates some important secondary sources and teaches students to apply different approaches to the novels scrutinised in the course. Therefore it provides a good opportunity to students to apply different skills to their analysis and close reading of the novels. It complements other courses offered by MSc in Comparative Literature programme that focus on literary theory and research methods.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- read and criticise complex theoretical texts and arguments.
- acquire a critical vocabulary for the analysis of literary texts.
- possess a broad understanding of the main trends in Russian and European 19th-c. thought along with some knowledge of the relevance of 19th-c. ideas and literary experiments for 20th-c. literature and literary theory in Russia and in the West.
- read further and more widely in literary and cultural theory, having gained the requisite background knowledge and critical vocabulary.
- to show a good understanding of and apply competently complex conceptual frameworks.
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Reading List
Emerson, Caryl. Introduction to Russian Literature, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2008.
Selected Bibliography:
1. Bayley, John. Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary. Cambridge, 1971.
2. Bayley, John. Tolstoy and the Novel. London, 1966.
3. Berlin, Isaiah. Russian Thinkers. Harmondsworth, 1978.
4. Bethea, David M., ed. Puskin Today. Bloomington, 1993.
5. Briggs, A. D. P. Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin. Cambridge, 1992.
6. Christian, R. F. Tolstoy: A Critical Introduction. London, 1969.
7. Diment, Galya. Goncharov's "Oblomov" A Critical Companion,
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press : American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East
European Languages, 1998.
8. Debreczeny, Paul. The Other Pushkin: A Study of Alexander Pushkin's Prose Fiction. Stanford,
1983.
9. Eikhenbaum, Boris. Lermontov: A Study in Literary-Historical Evaluation. Ann Arbor, 1981.
10. Fanger, Donald. The Creation of Nikolai Gogol. Cambridge (MA), 1979.
11. Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849. Princeton, 1976. 12. Frank, Joseph.
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859. Princeton, 1983.
13. Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865. Princeton, 1986.
14. Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1866-1870. Princeton, 1995.
15. Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881. Princeton, 2002.
16. Frank, Joseph. Through the Russian Prism. Princeton, 1991.
17. Gustafson, Richard. Leo Tolstoy: Resident and Stranger. Princeton, 1986.
18. Hasty, Olga Peters. Pushkin's Tatiana. Madison, 1999.
19.Heldt, Barbara. A Terrible Perfection. Bloomington, 1987.
20. Hoisington, Sona Stephan, ed. A Plot of Her Own: The Female Protagonist in Russian Literature.
Evanston, 1995.
21. Hoisington, Sona Stephan, ed. & trans. Russian Views of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
Bloomington,
1988.
22 Leighton, Lauren. The Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature: Decembrism and
Freemasonry. University Park, PA, 1994.
23. Maguire, Robert A. Exploring Gogol. Stanford, 1994. 27. Maguire, Robert A., ed. Gogol from the
Twentieth Century. Princeton, 1974.
24. Mirsky, D. S. A History of Russian Literature. Evanston, 1999 [1958].
25. Moser, Charles A., ed. Cambridge History of Russian Literature. Cambridge, 1992.
26. Nabokov, Vladimir. Eugene Onegin (rev. edn., 2 vols.). Princeton, 1975.
27. Nabokov, Vladimir. Lectures on Russian Literature. New York, 1980.
28. Nabokov, Vladimir. Nikolai Gogol. Norfolk, 1944.
29. Riha, Thomas, ed. Readings in Russian Civilization (rev. edn.), vol. 2. Chicago, 1969.
30. Terras, Victor. A History of Russian Literature. New Haven, 1991.
31. Todd III, William Mills. Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin. Cambridge, MA, 1986.
32. Wigzell, Faith. Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender, and Divination in Russia from 1765. Cambridge, 1998.
many journals and articles are available through the Central Library's databases: JSTOR and Project Muse.
In addition the library has access to electronic version of such useful journals as "The Slavonic and East European Review"; "The Russian Literature"; "Slavonica"; "The Russian Review" and "Modern Languages Review". |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students will enhance their skills related to literary analysis and critical thinking, as well as their ability to work in the are of comparative studies. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Alexandra Smith
Tel: (0131 6)51 1381
Email: Alexandra.Smith@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kara Mccormack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Kara.McCormack@ed.ac.uk |
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