Results for SLAVLIT

For students at the fifth-year Russian level. Advanced language training based on Russian newspapers and magazines. Discussion of issues regarding the Russian media and reading articles of a typical Russian press format.

Required of majors in Russian language and literature; open to undergraduates who have completed three years of Russian, and to graduate students. The major poetic styles of the 19th century as they intersected with late classicism, the romantic movement, and the realist and post-realist traditions. Representative poems by Lomonosov, Derzhavin, Zhukovskii, Pushkin, Baratynskii, Lermontov, Tiutchev, Nekrasov, Fet, Soloviev. In Russian.

Senior honors students enroll for 5 units in Winter while writing the honors thesis, and may enroll in 189B for 2 units in Spring while revising the thesis. Prerequisite: DLCL 189.

Open to juniors with consent of adviser while drafting honors proposal. Open to senior honors students while revising honors thesis. Prerequisites for seniors: 189A, DLCL 189.

Open to Russian majors or students working on special projects. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

Required of first-year Slavic graduate students and honors students. Elements of literary work and principles of literary history. 20th-century Russian literary scholarship emphasizing Russian formalism and structuralism. The relationship of literary studies with the other areas of humanistic research such as linguistics, history, art criticism, semiotics, and cultural studies. Bibliographic and archival research.

The first written language of the Slavic people. Grammar. Primarily a skills course, with attention to the historical context of Old Church Slavic.

The works of Pasternak and his contemporaries Vladimir Mayakovsky and Marina Tsvetaeva; cultural context and the features of Russian avant garde poetics. Readings in Russian.

His poetry, prose, cultural criticism as an expression of Russian modernism in contexts including: symbolism, acmeism, and the avant garde; NEP culture; and Stalinism. Mandelstam¿s legacy in art and Russian postmodernism. Myth of the poet. The cultural paradigm of Soviet civilization. Knowledge of Russian desirable but not necessary. See http://www.stanford.edu/class/slavic272.

For students at the fifth-year Russian level. Advanced language training based on Russian newspapers and magazines. Discussion of issues regarding the Russian media and reading articles of a typical Russian press format.

Required of majors in Russian language and literature; open to undergraduates who have completed three years of Russian, and to graduate students. The major poetic styles of the 19th century as they intersected with late classicism, the romantic movement, and the realist and post-realist traditions. Representative poems by Lomonosov, Derzhavin, Zhukovskii, Pushkin, Baratynskii, Lermontov, Tiutchev, Nekrasov, Fet, Soloviev. In Russian.

For graduate students in Slavic working on theses or engaged in special work. Prerequisite: written consent of instructor.

The history and theory of Russian versification from the 17th to the 20th century. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Russian.

From earliest times through the 17th century. The development of literary and historical genres, and links among literature and art, architecture, and religious culture. Readings in English; graduate students read in original.

Pushkin and Gogol's poetic, fictional, and journalistic works of the 1830s as an implicit dialogue about the emerging artistic and national directions of Russian literature, the Petersburg text, journalism, and theater. Paired Pushkin and Gogol texts read against the background of Belinsky, Pogodin, Senkovsky, Shakhovskoi, St. Beuve, Jules Janin, Balzac, and L. Ginzburg. Prerequisite: Russian.

Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Russian realist and naturalist prose emerged in a historical context that fostered specific ideas about the function and form of the literary word. Readings from Turgenev, Goncharov, Leskov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoevsky, Garshin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin. Discussions in English.

The history and theory of Russian versification from the 17th to the 20th century. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Russian.

Major poems and prose with detailed examination of his cultural milieu. Emphasis is on changes in the understanding of literary concepts relevant to this period of Russian literature (poetic genres, the opposition between poetry and prose, romanticism).nn (Staff)

From earliest times through the 17th century. The development of literary and historical genres, and links among literature and art, architecture, and religious culture. Readings in English; graduate students read in original.

Major works in all genres from Kievan Rus and Muscovy (11th through 17th centuries) in their original language. Literature, history, and culture of the period; seminar discussions of the texts. Prerequisite: SLAVLIT 211.