2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

L-LIN/21 (SLAVIC STUDIES)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

LITERATURES OF EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

1st semester (26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)

9

54 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) Utopia and antiutopia in Russian literature between 19th and 20th centuries (9 CFU; common to Russian literature-a (c.p.) and Russian literature-b (c.p.))

2) Introduction to the study of N. Leskov (3 CFU; only for Russian literature-b (c.p.)).

Lectures

Bibliography

- Vl. Odoevskij, Gorod bez imeni
- F. Dostoevskij, Son smesnogo celoveka
- N. Cernysevskij, Cto delat'?
- V. Brjusov, Respublika Juznogo kresta
- S. Bogdanov, Krasnaja zvezda
- E. Zamjatin, My
- M. Bulgakov, Sobac'e serdce, Rokovye jajca
- Vl. Majakovskij, Banja
- A. Platonov, Cevengur

(students must read two texts in Russian)

- Course notes
- G. Piretto, Il radioso avvenire. Mitologie culturali sovietiche, Einaudi, Torino, 2001, chapters I, II, III, IV.

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)

- N. Leskov, Očarovannyj strannik, Ledi Makbet Mcenskogo uezda, Levša,Zapečatlennyj angel
(students must read two texts in Russian)
- B. Ejchenbaum, " ‘Črezmernyj pisatel’’ (K 100-letiju roždenija N. Leskova) ", in B. Ejchenbaum, O proze. O poezii. Sbornik statej, Leningrad 1986, p. 237-252 (o altra edizione; link: http://sobolev.franklang.ru/index.php/seredina-xix-veka/193-b-ejkhenbaum-chrezmernyj-pisatel)
- 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