2014/2015

2015/2016

DM270

L-LIN/21 (SLAVIC STUDIES)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

LITERATURES OF EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (21/09/2015 - 23/12/2015)

12

72 lesson hours

Russian

ORAL TEST

BRAGONE MARIA CRISTINA (titolare) - 12 ECTS

1) good knowledge of Russian literature (XVIII-XX centuries), of the historical and cultural background and the main authors
2) to have passed the exams: Letteratura russa a (c.p.), Lingua russa a (c.p.)

The course aims to provide methodological, critical and cultural knowledge required for specialized knowledge of Russian literature's texts, problems and authors.

1) Basnja and skazka in Russian literature between 17th and 20th centuries (9 CFU; common to Russian literature-a (c.p.) and Russian literature-b (c.p.))

2) The literary debate between Vasilij Trediakovskij, Michail Lomonosov and Aleksandr Sumarokov (3 CFU; only for Russian literature-b (c.p.)).

Lectures

Bibliography

- A. Afanas'ev, Russkie narodnye skazki (selection) (http://feb-web.ru/feb/skazki/default.asp)
- A. Sumarokov, Pritci (selection)(http://www.rvb.ru/18vek/sumarokov/toc.htm)
- I. Krylov, Basni (selection) (http://www.rvb.ru/18vek/krylov/tocvol3.htm)
- A. Puskin, Skazka o care Saltane, Skazka o rybake i rybke, Skazka o zolotom petuske (http://feb-web.ru/feb/pushkin/default.asp)
- M. Lermontov, Asik-Kerib (http://feb-web.ru/feb/lermont/default.asp)
- S. Aksakov, Alen'kij cvetocek (http://www.lib.ru/TALES/alenkij.txt_with-big-pictures.html)
- V. Odoevskij, Gorodok v tabakerke (http://az.lib.ru/o/odoewskij_w_f/text_0310.shtml#02)
- V. Dal', Skazki (selection) (http://philolog.petrsu.ru/vdahl/texts/texts.htm)
- M. Saltykov-Scedrin, Skazki (selection) (http://az.lib.ru/s/saltykow_m_e/)
- L. Tolstoj, Skazki (selection) (http://rvb.ru/tolstoy/tocvol_10.htm)
- K. Cukovskij, Krokodil, Ajbolit, Mucha-Cokotucha, Tarakanisce, Mojdodyr (http://www.chukfamily.ru/Kornei/Tales/tales.htm)
- S. Marsak, Skazka o glupom mysonke, Skazka ob umnom mysonke, Otcego kosku nazvali koskoj? (vostocnaja skazka)
- J. Olesa, Tri tolstjaka
- E. Svarc, Golyj korol'

Critical works
- Course notes
- V. Propp, Morphology of the folktale (any edition)
- A. Achmatova, Poslednjaja skazka Puskina (http://biwibi.ru/d/713433/d/ahmatova.pdf)

Students can consult the following handbooks in order to revise the writers discussed in the course:

- Storia della civiltà letteraria russa, diretta da Michele Colucci e Riccardo Picchio, vol. 2 Il Novecento, UTET, Torino 1997
or
- Storia della letteratura russa. Il Novecento, diretta da E. Etkind, G. Nivat, I. Serman e V. Strada, vol. 1-3, Einaudi, Torino 1989

Students have to write a paper in Russian on a subject related to the course chosen by previous agreement with the lecturer.

2) Bibliography (for Russian literature b (c.p.), 3 CFU)

- Psaltir' v russkoj poezii, Moskva, 1995
- A.B. Siskin, "Poeticeskoe sostjazanie Trediakovskogo, Lomonosova i Sumarokova", XVIII vek, sb. 14, Nauka, leningrad, 1983, pp. 232-246 (http://lib.pushkinskijdom.ru/Default.aspx?tabid=7224)
- M.S. Grinberg, B.A. Uspenskij, Literaturnaja vojna Trediakovskogo i Sumarokogo v 1740-ch - nacale 1750-ch godov, RGGU, Moskva, 2001 (http://ivgi.rsuh.ru/binary/object_10.1332506451.47974.pdf)
- Course notes


Students have to write a paper in Russian on a subject related to the course chosen by previous agreement with the lecturer.
Students who do not attend the lectures are requested to contact the lecturer.

Materials and books included in the bibliography are available in the Department of Humanistic Studies, Section of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Oral exam

Oral exam