CLASS                                                TEXTS/ASSIGNMENTS

Mon., Sept. 1                                                        Introduction and syllabus/class blackboard site

Wed., Sept. 3                                                        Introductory lecture on historical and literary context with timeline

                                                                                -- remember to answer the first blackboard question before class!

                                                                                -- Pushkin, “The Shot”

Mon., Sept. 8                                                        Pushkin, “The Queen of Spades”    

                                                                                -- *Ronald Hingley, Russian Writers and Society, 1825-

                                                                                1904, Part One: "The Writer's Situation" (13-40)

Mon., Sept. 8 (evening)                                      Movie & Pizza: Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin – screened at 7:00 pm in

                                                                                Lawrence 201

                                                                                -- if you cannot make the screening, you will be responsible for watching

                                                                                this movie by class on Wed., Sept. 10 (it will be available at Case Library

                                                                                circulation)

-- also: see the Discussion Board for an extra forum relating to this movie
 (you can choose to answer either a movie or Lermontov question or do
one of each if you’d like)

Wed., Sept. 10                                                      Lermontov,  A Hero of Our Time (pp. 3-69) and in class his lyric poem

                                                                                 “The Sail”

                                                                                -- *Ralph Fiennes, “Shooting Pushkin” (New Yorker article: 8 pages)     

Mon., Sept. 15                                                      Lermontov,  A Hero of Our Time (pp. 70-157)

Wed., Sept. 17                                                      Gogol, "How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan

                                                                                Nikiforovich" and "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his

                                                                                Aunt" (76 pages)

Mon., Sept. 22                                                      Gogol, “The Diary of a Madman,” “The Nose” (50 pages)

                                                                                -- *Vissarion Belinskii, "Thoughts and Notes on Russian

                                                                                Literature" (14 pages)

Wed., Sept. 24                                                      Gogol, “The Portrait,” “The Overcoat” (84 pages)       

Mon., Sept. 29                                                      *Avodtya Panaeva, "The Young Lady of the Steppes"

(~ 70 pages)

                                                                                -- *Ol'ga Demidova, "Russian Women Writers of the

                                                                                Nineteenth Century" (11 pages)

Wed., Oct. 1                                                          Excerpts from Orlando Figes, TBA

Mon., Oct. 6                                                          Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (pp. 1-86)

                                                                                -- Turgenev, "Apropos of Fathers and Sons" (7 pages)

Wed., Oct. 8                                                          Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (pp. 86-157)

                                                                                -- Dmitry Pisarev, "Bazarov" (20 pages)        

Friday, Oct. 10                                                    Short Paper (5-7 pp.) due in my door slot -- 219C Lawrence -- by 5 p.m.

                                                                                Also: compile and submit electronically via the digital dropbox on our

                                                                                blackboard site your BB responses up to this point in the semester (use

                                                                                the file entitled “Headings for blackboard fora” that you can  find in the

                                                                                “Assignments” folder to make this easier – cut and paste your responses into it)

Mon., Oct. 13                                                       Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground Part I (38 pages)

Wed., Oct. 15                                                        Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground Part II (88 pages)

Mon., Oct. 20                                                       NO CLASS -- MIDTERM RECESS

Wed., Oct. 22                                                        Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Part 1: pp. 1-115)

                                                                                -- in class: ball scene from the film adaptation of War and

                                                                                Peace

Mon., Oct. 27                                                       Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Part II: 117-236)

Wed., Oct. 29                                                        Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Part III: pp. 237-352)

-- *Tolstoy's letter to N. N. Strakhov (1 page)

                                                                                -- in class: mowing scene from film adaptation of AK               

Mon., Nov. 3                                                        Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Part IV: pp. 353-436)

Wed., Nov. 5                                                         Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Part V: pp. 437-550)

                                                                                -- *Susan Brownmiller, "Emotion" (= 10 pages from her Femininity)      

Mon., Nov. 10                                                      Tolstoy – *“Three Deaths” + *diary excerpts (< 35 pages)

Wed., Nov. 12                                                      Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Part VI: pp. 551-670)

                                                                                -- *Gary Saul Morson, "Prosaics and Anna Karenina"

                                                                                (11 pages)

Wed. evening, Nov. 12                                      MOVIE: Love and Death (Woody Allen) – 7 pm Law. 201

Mon., Nov. 17                                                      Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Parts VII: pp. 671-768).

Wed., Nov. 19                                                      Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Parts VIII: 769-817)

Mon., Nov. 24                                                      TBA: Excerpts from Orlando Figes OR catchup day.

Wed., Nov. 26                                                      Thanksgiving recess – no class!

Mon., Dec. 1                                                         Chekhov, "Sleepy," "The Grasshopper," "The

                                                                                Teacher of Literature" (~45 pages)

Wed., Dec. 3                                                         Chekhov, “Gooseberries,” “About Love,” and "The House with the

                                                                                Mansard” (~40 pages)

Mon., Dec. 8                                                         Chekhov, "The Lady with the Dog" and Bunin, "Sunstroke" (~50 pages)

                                                                                -- possibly in class: scene from movie "The Lady with the Dog"

Wed., Dec 10                                                        Conclusions

Friday, Dec. 12                                                   Final Paper due

DATE TBA                                                          Final Exam