printer friendly pageSLAVLIT 229: Poetry as System: Introduction to Theory and Practice of Russian Verse (SLAVLIT 129)
The history and theory of Russian versification from the 17th to the 20th century. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Russian.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVLIT 269: Pushkin and the Golden Age
Graduate seminar. The formation of a simultaneously imperial and Enlightenment culture under Catherine the Great, and how Pushkin and his contemporaries realized its potentials and contradictions. Literary texts in light of other verbal discourses and artistic media; the field of 18th-century and imperial studies in Russia. Undergraduates require consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Greenleaf, M. (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.
SLAVLIT 284: The History of the Russian Literary Language (SLAVLIT 184)
Major structural and semantic changes from the 10th to the 19th centuries. Recommended: 211, 212.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Schupbach, R. (PI)
SLAVLIT 288: From Alexander Blok to Joseph Brodsky: Russian Poetry of the 20th Century (SLAVLIT 188)
Required of majors in Russian literature. Developments in 20th-century Russian poetry including symbolism, acmeism, futurism, and literature of the absurd. Emphasis is on close readings of individual poems. Discussions in Russian.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVLIT 299: Individual Work for Graduate Students
For graduate students in Slavic working on theses or engaged in special work. Prerequisite: written consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
SLAVLIT 310: Civilizing Process: Paradigms of Society and Culture in Modern Russian Literature and Film
Texts representing theoretical models of society and culture in confrontation with works of Russian fiction and film. Emphasis is on Norbert Elias's civilizing process and related theories. Topics: body and desire (Freud, Bakhtin); manners and civilizing process (Elias, Cuddihy, Lotman); symbolic forms, ritual, and systems (Geertz, Zorin); identities and practices (de Certeau, Bourdieu); subcultures (Hebdidge). Authors include Mayakovsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Bulgakov, Platonov, Zoshchenko, Erofeev, Pelevin, Trifonov, and Petrushevskaia; film makers: Mamin and Rogozhkin. Recommended: knowledge of Russian.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Freidin, G. (PI)
SLAVLIT 802: TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
SLAVLIT 179: Literature from Old Rus' and Medieval Russia (SLAVLIT 279)
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.
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