printer friendly pageSLAVIC 300B: Research Tools and Professionalization Workshop
This course introduces graduate students in Slavic Studies to library, archival, and web resources for research, grant opportunities, publication strategies, and professional timelines. Open to PhD students in the Slavic Department and other departments and to MA students in CREEES.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
SLAVIC 311: 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:
Pereltsvaig, A. (PI)
SLAVIC 325: Readings in Russian Realism
For graduate students or upper-level undergraduates. What did Realism mean for late imperial Russian writers? What has it meant for twentieth-century literary theory? As we seek to answer these questions, we read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Chekhov, alongside their brilliant but less often taught contemporaries such as Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Leskov, Garshin, Korolenko, Gorky, Andreev, and Bunin. Taught in English; readings in Russian. Prerequisite: Three years of Russian.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Safran, G. (PI)
SLAVIC 327: Boris Pasternak and 20th century Russian Modernist Poetry
An emphasis is made on close reading of the poetry of Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Taught in Russian.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVIC 329: Russian Versification: History and Theory (SLAVIC 129)
A survey of metric forms, rhyming principles and stanzaic patterns in the Russian poetry of the 18th - 21st centuries. Taught in Russian. Prerequisite: Two years of Russian.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVIC 345: Survey of Russian Literature: The Age of Experiment (SLAVIC 145)
This course discusses the transition from predominantly poetic to predominantly prosaic creativity in the Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century Russian literature and the birth of the great Russian novel. It covers three major Russian writers -- Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov and Nikolai Gogol -- and examines the changes in the Russian literary scene affected by their work. An emphasis is placed on close reading of literary texts and analysis of literary techniques employed in them. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Fleishman, L. (PI)
SLAVIC 347: Modern Russian Literature and Culture: The Age of War and Revolution (SLAVIC 147)
The Age of Revolution: Readings in Russian Modernist Prose of the 1920-30s: What makes Russian modernist prose special? Or is there anything special about Russian modernist prose? This course aims to answer these questions through close readings of works by Babel, Mandelstam, Zoshchenko, Platonov, Olesha and Bulgakov. Aesthetic issues such as hero, plot, and narrative devices will be addressed with the aid of contemporaneous literary theory (Shklovsky, Tynianov, Eikhenbaum, Bakhtin). Novels and theory will be read in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Skakov, N. (PI)
;
Underwood, A. (TA)
SLAVIC 348: Dissent and Disenchantment: Russian Literature and Culture since the Death of Stalin (SLAVIC 148)
Russian culture and society since 1953 through literature (in English translation). Topics: opposition and dissent; generational conflict; modernization; everyday life, gender, ethnicity, class, citizenship, exit from communism. Literature of the "Thaw," state-published and samizdat, "village" and "cosmopolitan," the new emigration, Sots-Art, and the Russian "post-modern." Solzhenistyn, Shalamov, Trifonov, Siniavsky-Tertz, Erofeev, Dovlatov, Brodsky, Petrushevskaya, Pelevin, Ulitskaya, Sorokin. Requirements: three reaction papers and final exam (UG); research paper for graduate credit (extra section for graduate students; may register for
SLAVLIT 399)
SLAVIC 356: Nabokov in the Transnational Context (COMPLIT 115, COMPLIT 315, SLAVIC 156)
Nabokov's techniques of migration and camouflage as he inhabits the literary and historical contexts of St. Petersburg, Berlin, Paris, America, and Switzerland. His early and late stories, last Russian novel "The Gift," "Lolita" (the novel and screenplay), and "Pale Fire." Readings in English. Russian speakers will be encouraged to read Russian texts in original.
SLAVIC 370: Pushkin
Pushkin's poems, prose, and drafts in dialogue with contemporaries and cultural milieu. Emphasis on innovation and controversy in genre, lyrical form and personal idiom, shaping a public discourse. Taught in English.
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