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.