printer friendly pageSLAVLIT 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Zhivov, V. (PI)
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 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)
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: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Timberlake, A. (PI)
SLAVLIT 224: The Russian Postmodern Novel
What is the place of postmodernism in Russia? The course aims to answer the question by engaging with theories of postmodernity (Baudrillard, Barthes, Derrida) and through close reading of three gems of Russian postmodern literature: Vladimir Sorokin's
Marina's Thirtieth Love, Sasha Sokolov's
Astrophobia, and Viktor Pelevin's
Buddha's Little Finger. Novels read in Russian.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Skakov, N. (PI)
SLAVLIT 232: Formalism, Semiotics, Bakhtin: Key Texts
Graduate seminar. The main texts of the two influential Russian literary theory groups: formalism (Viktor Shklovsky, Yiurii Tynianov, Roman Jakobson, and Boris Eikhenbaum) and the Moscow-Tartu school of semiotics (Yiurii Lotman and Boris Uspensky). Key essays of Mikhail Bakhtin, who arguably represents the most influential one-man movement in the history of literary theory.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Skakov, N. (PI)
SLAVLIT 270: Pushkin
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)
SLAVLIT 272: Osip Mandelstam: from Acmeism to Postmodernism
Mandelstam's oeuvre and Russian modernism: poetry, thought, culture and politics, criticism and scholarship). Russian symbolism (Ivanov, Bely, Blok, Annensky, Kuzmin); acmeism/futurism; reception; Mandelstam in Soviet civilization; poet's social function; memory, biography, and cultural theory; acmeist paradigm in the late Soviet/post-Soviet poetry (Sots-Art, Kibirov, Gandlevsky, Rubinshtein, et al.). Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates familiar with and interested in Russian literary history, Russian, and/or modernist poetry.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Freidin, G. (PI)
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