SLAVLIT 183: Readings in the Russian Press (SLAVLIT 283)
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.
Last offered: Spring 2002
SLAVLIT 187: Russian Poetry of the 18th and 19th Centuries (SLAVLIT 287)
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVLIT 189A: Honors Research
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
SLAVLIT 189B: Honors Research
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.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (PI)
;
Safran, G. (PI)
SLAVLIT 199: Individual Work for Undergraduates
Open to Russian majors or students working on special projects. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
SLAVLIT 200A: Introduction to Russian Literary Scholarship
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVLIT 211: Introduction to Old Church Slavic
The first written language of the Slavic people. Grammar. Primarily a skills course, with attention to the historical context of Old Church Slavic.
Instructors:
Timberlake, A. (PI)
SLAVLIT 227: Boris Pasternak and the Poetry of the Russian Avant Garde
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVLIT 272: Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Paradigm
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.
Last offered: Winter 2006
SLAVLIT 283: Readings in the Russian Press (SLAVLIT 183)
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.
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