CLASS                                                                  TEXTS

 

Wed., Jan. 21                                                        Introduction: Dostoevsky and his historical and literary context

                                                                               

Mon., Jan. 26                                                       Crime and Punishment, Part One (86 pages)

                                                                                -*Leo Tolstoy, [How Minute Changes…] (1 page)

 

Wed., Jan. 28                                                        Crime and Punishment, Part Two (108 pages)

                                                                                -*“A Passage from an Early Draft” (3 pages)

                                                                                -*Joseph Frank, “The World of Raskolnikov” (10 pages)          

                                                                               

Mon., Feb. 2                                                         Crime and Punishment, Part Three (84 pages)

                                                                                -*Mikhail Bakhtin, “From Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics” (7 pages)

 

Wed., Feb. 4                                                          Crime and Punishment, Part Four (80 pages)

                                                                                -*José Ortega y Gasset, [Why Dostoevsky Lives in the Twentieth

                                                                                Century] (4 pages)

 

Mon., Feb. 9                                                         Crime and Punishment, Part Five (78 pages)

                                                                                -*Nicholas Berdyaev, [Dostoevsky, the Nature of Man, and Evil]

                                                                                (6 pages)

                                                                               

Wed., Feb. 11                                                       Crime and Punishment, Part Six and Epilogues (115 pages)

                                                                               

Mon., Feb. 16                                                       Excerpts from The House of the Dead (TBA)

                                                                                *Descriptions of Dostoevsky by contemporaries

 

Wed., Feb. 18                                                       Notes from Underground, Part I (40 pages)

 

Friday, Feb. 20                                                     3-page paper (~500-750 words) due as email attachment by 8 pm.

 

Mon., Feb. 23                                                       Notes from Underground, Part II (90 pages)

 

Wed., Feb. 25                                                       The Gambler, Chapters I-X (61 pages)

                                                                                *Selections from Polina Suslova’s and Anna

                                                                                Dostoevskaya’s diaries, memoirs and letters

                                                                                *Selections from Dostoevsky’s own letters   

                                                                                -*Excerpt from Helfant, “His to Stake, Hers to Lose:

                                                                                Women’s Reactions to the Male Gambling Culture of

                                                                                19th-Century Russia” (8 pages)

 

Mon., March 2                                                     The Gambler, Chapters XI-XVII (56 pages)

                                                                                -*Excerpt from Helfant, The High Stakes of Identity:

                                                                                Gambling in the Life and Literature of 19th Century Russia

                                                                                (8 pages)

 

Wed., March 4                                                     Demons, Part I: Chapters 1-3 (124 pages)     

 

Friday, March 6                                                   4 to 5-page paper (~900-1200 words) due via

                                                                                email by 8 pm (15%), along with your compilation

                                                                                of your BB contributions through The Gambler,

                                                                                also as email attachment in Word or Rich Text

                                                                                Format.

 

Mon., March 9                                                     Demons, Part I: Chapters 4-5 (85 pages)

 

Wed., March 11                                                   Demons, Part II: Chapters 1-5 (129 pages)

 

Sat. March 14-Sun. March 22                          SPRING BREAK

 

Mon., March 23                                                   Demons, Part II: Chapters 6-8 plus Appendix [the original Part II,

                                                                                Chapter 9]  (110 pages)

 

Wed., March 25                                                   Demons, Part II, Ch. 9-10 and Part III: Chapters 1-3 (120 pages)

 

Mon., March 30                                                   Demons, Part III: 4-end  (134 pages)

                                                                                        

Wed., April 1                                                         *Excerpts from Diary of a Writer

 

Mon., April 6                                                        *”The Meek One” (40 pages) and “Dream of a Ridiculous Man”

                                                                                (15 pages)

 

Wed., April 8                                                         The Brothers Karamazov: Books 1 & 2 (84 pages)

 

Mon., April 13                                                      The Brothers Karamazov: Books 3 & 4 (120 pages)

 

Wed., April 15                                                      The Brothers Karamazov: Books 5 & 6 (143 pages)

                                          

Mon., April 20                                                      The Brothers Karamazov: Books 7 & 8 (117 pages)

 

Wed., April 22                                                      The Brothers Karamazov: Books 9 & 10 (117 pages)

 

Mon., April 27                                                      The Brothers Karamazov: Books 11 (94 pages)

 

Wed., April 29                                                      The Brothers Karamazov: Books 12 & Epilogue (120 pages)   

 

Friday, May 6                                                      Final 10 to 12-page paper due by 5 p.m. via email. 

                                                                                Also due: Compile and submit your Blackboard comments for

                                                                                2nd half of semester (Demons through Bros. K) via email.

 

Wed., May  13                                                     Take-home final exam (for those who must take it) due via email by 5 pm.