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Sl.4:!Russian!Literature!and!Culture!from!the!Golden!Age!to!the!Silver!Age!!!!

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Course!Adviser:!Dr!Alyson!Tapp!(alt33@cam.ac.uk)!

Handbook!2015C16!

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Contents!!1.! Introduction……………………………………................................................!3! !

2.! Overview!of!Texts!and!Topics!for!2015C16……………………………………..!3!

3.! Teaching!&!Assessment…………………………………………………………………!4!

4.! Preparatory!Reading……………………………………………………………………..!5!

5.! Reading!Lists…………………………………………………………………………………!5!

Using!the!Reading!Lists………………………………………………………!5!

Section!A:!Set!Texts……………………………………………………………!6!

Section!B:!Prescribed!Authors……………………………………………!10!

Section!C:!Topics………………………………………………………………..!13!

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Sl.4:!Russian!Literature!and!Culture!from!the!Golden!Age!to!the!Silver!Age!Course!Adviser:!Dr!Alyson!Tapp!(alt33@cam.ac.uk)!

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Introduction!The!nineteenth!century!saw!the!rapid!development!of!Russian!literary!culture!–!from!the!

emergence!of!the!modern!Russian!literary!language,!to!the!rise!of!the!great!Russian!novel,!

and,!by!the!end!of!the!century,!the!launch!of!modernism!in!Russia.!!Bold!in!their!formal!and!

aesthetic!innovation,!the!works!of!this!period!pose!the!decisive!questions!of!Russian!

modernity!and!pursue!urgent!issues!of!social,!political!and!theological!import.!!!

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The!course!is!a!study!of!Russian!literature!from!the!beginning!of!the!nineteenth!century!

through!the!very!early!twentieth!century!and!introduces!students!to!a!range!of!authors,!

genres!and!issues.!!In!order!to!achieve!a!balance!of!depth!and!breadth,!the!paper!is!organized!

around!the!study!of!two!set!texts,!two!prescribed!authors,!and!three!topics.!!(There!are!

suggested!pathways!through!the!texts!and!topics!tailored!to!Part!IB,!option!A!(exCab'initio)!students,!but!students!should!not!feel!limited!to!these).!

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Overview!of!Texts!and!Topics!for!2015F16!!Set!Texts:!A1.!Aleksandr!Pushkin,!Evgenii'Onegin!(1825C32)!A2.!Lev!Tolstoi,!Anna'Karenina!(1873C77)!'Prescribed!Authors:!B1.!Nikolai!Gogol’!B2.!Anton!Chekhov!!

Topics:!C1.!!The!Elegy!(1800sC1830s)!C2.!!Fiction!and!Ideology!in!the!1860s!C3.!!The!Drama!in!the!Nineteenth!Century!

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Teaching!

Weekly!lectures!in!Michaelmas!and!Lent;!weekly!(2hr)!revision!seminars!in!Easter.!!!

Ten!fortnightly!supervisions!throughout!the!year.!!!

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Lecture!Schedule!Michaelmas! ! ! ! ! ! ! Lent!Wk.! Lecture! ! ! Supervision! ! ! Wk.! Lecture! ! ! Supervision!1! elegy! ! !! ! ! ! ! 1! Anna'Karenina' ' '2! elegy! ! ! !!!elegy! ! ! ! 2! Anna'Karenina! ! AK! !

3! Evgenii'Onegin! ! ! ! ! ! 3! Anna'Karenina! ! !

4! Evgenii'Onegin! ! !!EO! ! ! ! 4! 1860s! ! ! AK'5! Evgenii'Onegin' ' ' ' ' ' 5! 1860s*! ! ! !

6! Gogol! ! ! !!EO' ' ' ' 6! Chekhov!! ! 1860s!

7! Gogol! ! ! ! ! ! ! 7! Chekhov!! ! !

8! Gogol/Griboedov!(drama)!!!!Gogol! ! ! ! 8! Drama! ! Chekhov/Drama! !

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!Easter!Wk.! Seminar*!(2hrs)! ! Supervision!1! EO/elegy! ! revision!

2! AK/1860s!3! Gogol/Chekhov! ! revision!

4! drama! ! ! ! ! !

*!ordering!of!revision!sessions!subject!to!change!–!but!all!topics!will!have!one!dedicated!hour!of!review.! !

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Assessment!Assessment!by!Long!Essay!instead!of!final!examination!is!available!in!this!paper!for!students!in!Part!IB!

(Options!A!&!B).!

!The!examination!is!structured!as!follows:!!Section!A!will!consist!of!a!commentary!on!one!of!the!set!

texts!and!essay!questions!on!the!other.!!!Section!B!will!offer!several!questions!on!each!of!the!prescribed!authors,!for!which!candidates!are!required!to!make!reference!to!more!than!one!text.!!

Section!C!will!offer!several!questions!on!each!of!the!prescribed!topics!as!well!as!more!open!questions!

that!might!be!answered!with!reference!to!a!wide!range!of!texts!and!periods.!!All!questions!in!Section!

C!will!require!candidates!to!write!about!at!least!two!texts!of!which!at!least!one!must!be!a!literary!

text.!!

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All!candidates!must!answer!three!questions.!!!

Students!for!Part!IB!(Options!A!&!B)!answer:!!1!question!from!Section!A!

any!other!2!questions!(which!may!include!1!further!question!from!Section!A)!

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Students!for!Part!II!answer:! !1!question!from!Section!A!!

1!question!from!Section!C!

EITHER!1!further!question!from!Section!C!!!OR!!!1!question!from!Section!B.!

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Preparatory!Reading!and!General!Background!Students!are!urged!to!buy!and!read!both!Set!Texts!during!the!summer!(or!Year!Abroad),!as!

well!as,!in!particular,!any!optional!longer!texts!they!wish!to!cover!(e.g.!Mertvye'dushi,'Besy).!!

The!following!reading!list!serves!as!an!introduction!to!the!subject.!!

Caryl!Emerson,!The'Cambridge'Introduction'to'Russian'Literature!(esp.!chs!1,!4,!5,!6)!William!Mills!Todd,!III,!Fiction'and'Society'in'the'Age'of'Pushkin:'Ideology,'Institutions'and'

Narrative'(chs.!1,2,3)!Malcolm!V.!Jones!and!Robin!Feuer!Miller!(eds.),!The'Cambridge'Companion'to'the'Classic'

Russian'Novel!Michael!Wachtel,!Cambridge'Introduction'to'Russian'Poetry!(chs!1,2,3,4)!Andrew!Wachtel!and!Ilya!Vinitsky.!“The!Spirit!of!Poetry:!Russian!Culture!in!the!Age!of!

Alexander!I”!in!Russian'Literature!Andrzej!Walicki,'A'History'of'Russian'Thought!(esp.!chs!3,!5,!6,!7,!8,!11)!!

Students!should!read!through!a!scholarly!history!of!19thCcentury!Russia!such!as:!Gregory!

Freeze,!Russia:''A'History!(chs!5,!6,!7,!8)!or!Nicholas!Riasanovsky!and!Mark!Steinberg,!A'History'of'Russia'(8th!edition;!Chs!24C30)!

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Reading!Lists!Using!the!Reading!Lists!The!lists!below!specify!Primary!and!Secondary!texts,!organised!by!Section!and!Topic.!!The!lists!

are!extensive!but!not!exhaustive:!in!other!words,!you!should!feel!neither!daunted!not!limited!

by!them!!!

!Sections!B!&!C!(Prescribed!Authors!&!Topics)!! Remember! that!you!will!be!making!selections' from!among! the!primary! texts!here;! they!

are!not!all!compulsory!reading.!!!

! In!particular,!students!are!reminded!that!the!long!novels!Mertye'dushi'by!Gogol!(B1)!and!Besy'by!Dostoevsky!(C2)!are!optional,!and!you!should!plan!ahead!if!you!want!to!read!one!or!both.!!

! Students!should!consult!with!their!supervisor!to!select!primary!texts!from!the!suggested!

options!according!to!their!interests!and!experience!in!Russian.!!Students!may!also!choose!to!

read!relevant!primary!texts!that!are!not!listed!here.!

!Secondary!Readings!The!suggestions!for!secondary!reading!represent!a!collection!of!resources!and!menus!of!

possibilities:!no!one!expects!you!to!do!all!of!the!reading!below!!!Your!supervisor!will!help!you!to!orientate!yourself!within!the!bibliography,!and!to!use!your!time!efficiently,!by!suggesting!

those!texts!which!most!closely!relate!to!the!themes!and!approaches!that!interest!you.!

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Section!A:!Set!Texts!!A1.!!A.!S.!Pushkin,!Evgenii!Onegin!!(1825F32)!! !!Former!ab!initio!students!(i.e.!those!in!Part!IB,!Option!A)!are!only!required!to!read!chapters!1,!2,!5!and!8!in!Russian;!they!must!read!the!entire!novel!in!English!in!order!to!follow!

the!plot.!!!

! !!!Recommended!translation:!James!E.!Falen!!

! !!!In!addition,!although!it!does!not!make!for!'smooth!reading',!Nabokov's!literal!translation,!

read!side!by!side!with!the!original,!is!very!helpful:!it!makes!for!an!excellent!primer!in!reading!

Russian!verse,!understanding!the!flexibility!of!word!order!etc…!!

! !!!Students!in!Part!IB,!Option!B!and!Part!II!read!the!entire!novel!in!Russian.!!

Background,!Biography,!Reference!Bethea,!David,!ed.!The'Pushkin'Handbook!(University!of!Wisconsin!Press,!2006).!

Binyon,!T.!J.!Pushkin.'A'Biography!(London!2003)!Kahn,!Andrew,!ed.!Cambridge'Companion'to'Pushkin.!Cambridge:!CUP,!2006.!

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Commentary!Lotman,!Iurii.!!Roman'Pushkina'‘Evgenii'Onegin’:'Kommentarii.!!Leningrad,!1983.!!Nabokov,!Vladimir!(transl.,!introd.!and!extensive!commentary).!!Eugene'Onegin:'A'Novel'in'

Verse'by'Aleksandr'Pushkin,!4!vols.!(London,!1964)!!!Other!Secondary!Readings!(i)!Introductory/student!survey!studies:!Briggs,!A.!D.!P.!!Aleksandr'Pushkin:'‘Eugene'Onegin.’''Cambridge,!CUP:!1992.!Clayton,!J.!Douglas.!Ice'and'Flame.'Aleksandr'Pushkin’s'‘Eugene'Onegin’!(Toronto!1985)!DaltonCBrown,!S.!Puskhin’s'Evgenii'Onegin.!!Bristol:!Bristol!Classical!Press,!1997.!Levitt,!Marcus.!!“Evgenii!Onegin”!in!Kahn,!Andrew,!ed.!Cambridge'Companion'to'Pushkin.!

Cambridge:!CUP,!2006.!

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(ii)!Seminal!Russian!scholarship:!Hoisington,!Sona,!ed.!!Russian'Views'of'Pushkin’s'Eugene'Onegin.!Bloomington:!Indiana!

University!Press,!1988.!

Lotman!(see!‘Commentary’!above)!

Shklovskii,!Viktor.!“Eugene!Onegin!(Pushkin!and!Sterne)!Translated!from!the!Russian!by!Emily!

Finer.”!Comparative'Critical'Studies!1,!no.!1–2!(June!1,!2004):!171–193.!!Ginzburg,!Lidiia,!‘К!постановке!проблемы!реализма!в!пушкинской!литературе,’!Vremennik'

pushkinskoi'komissii!(AN!SSSR,!1936),!387C401.!!

(iii)!Seminal/extensive!studies!in!western!scholarship:!Emerson,!Caryl.!!“Tatiana,”!in!A'Plot'of'Her'Own.'Female'Protagonist'in'Russian'Literature,!ed.!

Sonia!Hoisington.!!Evanston,!IL:!Northwestern!UP,!1995.!6C20.!

Greenleaf,!Monika.!Pushkin'and'Romantic'Fashion:'Fragment,'Elegy,'Orient,'Irony.!!Stanford:!Stanford!UP,!1997.!esp.!205C286.!

Hasty,!Olga!Peters.!!Pushkin’s'Tatiana.!!Madison:!University!of!Wisconsin!Press,!1999.!

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Todd,!William!Mills!III,!'Eugene!Onegin:!“Life’s!Novel”,!in!Literature'and'Society'in'the'Age'of'Pushkin,!ed.!by!William!Mills!Todd!III.!!Cambridge,!MA:!Harvard!UP,!1986.!

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(iv)!Articles!with!useful,!specific!focus:!!Cravens,!C.!“Lyric!and!Narrative!Consciousness!in!‘Eugene!Onegin’.”!Slavic'and'East'European'

Journal!46,!no.!4!(2002):!683–709.!Dvigubski,!Anna.!“‘And!What!of!My!Onegin?’!Displacement!and!Reinvention!of!the!Hero!in!

Eugene!Onegin.”!The'Russian'Review!72,!no.!1!(2013):!1–23.!Gelder,!Ann.!‘Wandering!in!Exile:!!Byron!and!Pushkin,’!Comparative'Literature'!42:4!(Autum,!

1990),!319C334.!

Greg,!Richard.!‘Stanza!and!Plot!in!Evgenii'Onegin:!!A!Symbiosis?’!Slavonic'and'East'European'Review'!72:4!(October!1994),!609C621.!

Hoisington,!Sona!Stephan.!“‘Eugene!Onegin’:!An!Inverted!Byronic!Poem.”!Comparative'Literature!27!(1975):!136.!

CCCCC.!“Parody!in!Evgenii!Onegin:!Lenskii’s!Lament.”!Canadian'Slavonic'Papers/Revue'Canadienne'Des'Slavistes:'An'Interdisciplinary'Journal'Devoted'to'Central'and'Eastern'Europe!29,!no.!2–3!(June!1,!1987):!266–278.!

Ketchian,!S.!I.!“‘What’s!Hidden!in!My!Name?’:!Names!as!a!Window!into!Pushkin’s!‘Evgenij!

Onegin’.”!Russian'Literature!60,!no.!2!(August!2006):!159–183.!!LesicCThomas,!Andrea.!“Focalization!in!Pushkin’s!Eugene!Onegin!and!Lermontov’s!A!Hero!of!

Our!Time:!Loving!the!Semantic!Void!and!the!Dizziness!of!Interpretation.”!The'Modern'Language'Review!103,!no.!4!(October!1,!2008).!

Reid,!Robert!and!Joe!Andrew,!eds.,!Two'Hundred'Years'of'Pushkin,!Vols!II!and!III!(Rodopi,!2004).!!Recommended!articles!in!Vol!II:!!Bethea,!Palmer;!in!Vol!III:!!Freeborn,!Weststeijn,!

Clayton,!De!Haard,!Livingstone.!

Reyfman,!Irina.!'Ritualized'Violence'Russian'Style:'The'Duel'in'Russian'Culture'and'Literature.''Stanford:'Stanford!UP,!1999.!!

Semenko,!I.!M.,!and!Sona!Hoisington.!“The!‘Author’!in!Eugene!Onegin:!Image!and!Function.”!

CanadianXAmerican'Slavic'Studies!29,!no.!3–4!(January!1,!1995):!233–255.!!Wachtel,!Michael,!‘The!Onegin!stanza:!from!poetic!digression!to!poetic!nostalgia’,!in!The'

Development'of'Russian'Verse:'Meter'and'its'Meanings'(Cambridge:!!CUP,!2006)!!

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A2:!L.!N.!Tolstoi,!Anna!Karenina!(1873F77)!! !!!Former!ab!initio!students!(i.e.!those!in!Part!IB,!Option!A)!read!at!least!the!extracts!specified!below!in!Russian!(roughly!one!third!of!the!novel);!they!read!the!entire!novel!in!

English!in!order!to!follow!the!plot:!!Part!I:!1C4,!7C11,!13,!16C23,!26C34;!!Part!2:!7C12,!21C29;!!!!

Part!3:!1C5,!13C16,!!22C!25,!31C32!;!!Part!4:!!!1,!3C5,!!9C13,!15C23;!!Part!6:!3,!7C16,!!19C20,!31C33;!!

Part!7:!9C16,!23C31;!!Part!8:!8C19.!!!

! !!!Recommended!translations:!!either!Rosemary!Edmonds!OR!Richard!Pevear!and!Larissa!

Volokhonsky.!

! !!!Students!in!Part!IB,!Option!B!and!Part!II!read!the!entire!novel!in!Russian.!!

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Background,!Biography,!Reference!!Bartlett,!Rosamund.!!Tolstoy:''A'Russian'Life!(Profile!Press,!2011).!![Biography]!Eikhenbaum,!Boris.!!Tolstoi'v'semidesiatykh'godakh.''In!English:!!Tolstoi'in'the'Seventies.!

trans.!Albert!Kaspin.!Ardis,!Ann!Arbor.!!(Masterful!blend!of!biographical,!philological!and!

textual!analysis!by!leading!'formalist'!critic.)!

Freeze,!Gregory.!“Reform!and!Counterreform,!1855C1890”!in!Russia:'A'History,!ed.!Gregory!Freeze!(New!York:!Oxford!University!Press,!1997),!pp.!170C199.!!Historical!context.!

Knapp,!Liza!and!Amy!Mandelker,!eds.!!Approaches'to'Teaching'Tolstoy’s'Anna'Karenina!(MLA:!!

2003).!!Excellent,!very!useful!anthology!of!short!critical!texts.!

!Relevant!Theoretical!Works!(not!dealing!with!AK!explicitly):!Bakhtin,!Mikhail.!'Forms!of!Time!and!of!the!Chronotope!in!the!Novel:!Notes!toward!a!

Historical!Poetics,'!in!his!Dialogic'Imagination:'Four'Essays,!ed.!Michael!Holquist!

(University!of!Texas!Press,!1982),!pp.!84C85,!224C258.!

Brooks,!Peter.!!Reading'for'the'Plot:''Design'and'Intention'in'Narrative!!(Harvard!UP,!1992).!3C61.!

Tanner,!Tony.!!Adultery'in'the'Novel:''Contract'and'Transgression.!!Johns!Hopkins!UP,!1981.!'Auerbach,!Eric.!'Odysess's!Scar,'!in!!Mimesis:'The'Representation'of'Reality'in'Western'

Literature.!!Trans.!Willard!R.!Task.!!Princeton:!Princeton!UP,!2003.!!2C23.!

Jakobson,!Roman.!!'On!Realism!in!Art,’!in!Readings'in'Russian'Poetics:'Formalist'and'Structuralist'Views.!Eds.!Ladislav!Matejka!and!Krystyna!Pomorska.!Cambridge,!MA:!The!

MIT!Press,!1971.!38C46!

! !for!wrestling!with!'Realism':!see!also!entries!for!Gustafson,!Kliger!and!Kovarsky!below.!!! Works!which!promote!something!approaching!a!“comprehensive”!reading!of!the!novel,!

through!extensive!engagement!with!the!text!and/or!by!dint!of!interpretative!approach:!Alexandrov,!Vladimir.!!Limits'to'Interpretation.'The'Meanings'of'Anna'Karenina.!Madison:!

Wisconsin!UP:!2004.!

Gustafson,!Richard,!'The!Poetics!of!Emblematic!Realism'!in!Leo'Tolstoy:'Resident'and'Stranger:'A'Study'in'Fiction'and'Theology.!Princeton!UP,!1986.!202C213.!

Kliger,!Ilya.!'Tolstoy's!Plotlines!and!Truth!Shapes',!in!his!The'Narrative'Shape'of'Truth:''Veridiction'in'Modern'European'Literature.!Penn!State!UP,!2011.!!145C176.!

Mandelker,!Amy.!!Framing'Anna'Karenina:'Tolstoy,'the'Woman'Question,'and'the'Victorian'Novel.!Columbus:!Ohio!State!UP,!1993.!

Morson,!Gary!Saul.!!Anna'Karenina'in'Our'Time.!New!Haven:!Yale!UP,!2007.!Morson,!Gary!Saul.!'Anna!Karenina’s!Omens,''in!Freedom'and'Responsibility'in'Russian''

Literature,!ed.!E.C.!Allen!and!G.S.!Morson.!!Evanston:!Northwestern!UP,!1995.!134C152.!

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On!the!epigraph:!Eikhenbaum,!Boris.!!Tolstoi'in'the'Seventies.!Trans.!Albert!Kaspin.!Ardis,!Ann!Arbor,!1982.!Holland,!Kate.!‘The!Opening!of!Anna'Karewnina’!in!in!Knapp,!Liza!and!Amy!Mandelker,!eds.!!

Approaches'to'Teaching'Tolstoy’s'Anna'Karenina!(MLA:!!2003).!144C149.!!!

Morson.!Gary!Saul.!'Tolstoy's!Absolute!Language,'!Critical'Inquiry!7:4!(Summer!1981),!667C

687.!

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Other!Secondary!Readings:!use!the!titles!to!navigate!issues!that!interest!you,!or!consult!your!supervisor!for!recommendations.!!

! !!a!number!of!articles!appear!in!editions!of!the!Tolstoy!Studies!Journal!(abbreviated!below:!TSJ)!![in!UL:!North!Front,!Fl!5,!P576.b.29!]!!

Alexandrov,!Vladimir.!“Relative!Time!in!Anna!Karenina,”!Russian'Review'41!:2!(April!1982):!159C68.!

Bendiksen,!Anna!Primrose.!!'The!Swishing!of!the!Scythes:!The!Mowing!Scene!in!Anna'Karenina,'!Russian'Literature!40:4!(November!1996),!517C523.!

Bloom,!Harold!(ed.),!Leo'Tolstoy’s'‘Anna'Karenina.’!New!York,!1987.!de!Sherbinin,!Julie.!!'The!Dismantling!of!Hierarchy!and!the!Defense!of!Social!Class!in!Anna'

Karenina,’!Russian'Review!70:4!(October!2011):!646C662.!Emerson,!Caryl.!‘Prosaics!in!Anna'Karenina:!Pro!and!Con,’!TSJ'VIII:!150C76.!Evdokimova,!Svetlana.!!'The!Drawing!and!the!Grease!Spot:!!Creativity!and!Interpretation!in!

Anna'Karenina,'!TSJ'VIII:!33C45!Goscilo,!Helena.!!'Tolstoyan!Fare:!!Credo!a!la!Carte,'!Slavonic'and'East'European'Review!62:4!

(October!1984),!481C495.!![Jstor]!

Herman,!David.!!'Allowable!Passions!in!Anna'Karenina,'!TSJ!VIII:!5C32.!Jahn,!Gary.!!‘The!Image!of!the!Railroad!in!Anna'Karenina,’!Slavic'and'East'European'Journal'

25:!2!(1981):!1C10.!!

Knapp,!Liza.!!'The!Estates!of!Pokrovskoe!and!Vozdvizhenskoe:!!Tolstoy’s!Labyrinth!of!Linkings!

in!Anna'Karenina,’!TSJ!VIII:!81C98.!Knapp,!Liza.!'“TueCla!!TueCle!:!!Death!Sentences,!Words,!and!Inner!Monologue!n!

Tolstoy’s!Anna'Karenina'and!Three'More'Deaths.’!!TSJ'!XI:!1C19.!Kovarsky,!Gina.!!'Mimesis!and!Moral!Education!in!Anna'Karenina,'!TSJ!VIII:!61C80!Kujundzic,!Dragan,!‘Pardoning!Woman!in!Anna'Karenina’,!TSJ'!VI:!65C86.!!Lonnqvist,!Barbara.!“Anna!Karenina,”!in!The'Cambridge'Companion'to'Tolstoy.!Ed.!Donna!

Tussing!Orwin.!Cambridge:!CUP,!2002.!80C95.!

Meyer,!Priscilla.!!‘”Anna!Karenina,”!Rousseau,!and!the!Gospels,’!Russian'Review!66:2!(April!2007),!!204C219.!!!

Meyer,!Priscilla.!‘Anna'Karenina:!!Tolstoy’s!Polemic!with!Madame'Bovary,’!Russian'Review!54:2!(April!1995),!243C259.!

Meyer,!Priscilla.!‘Tolstoy,!Anna'Karenina,’!in!her!How'the'Russians'Read'the'French.!Madison:!

Univ!of!Wisconsin!Press,!2008.!152C209.!

Morson,!Gary!Saul.!'Poetic!Justice,!False!Listening,!and!Falling!in!Love,!Or,!Why!Anna!Refuses!a!

Divorce,'!TSJ!VIII:!177C197.!Morson,!Gary!Saul.!'What!is!Agriculture?'![in!Tolstoy],!Russian'Literature!40!(1996)!481C490.!Morson,!Gary!Saul!'Work!and!the!Authentic!Life!in!Tolstoy,'!TSJ!!IX:!36C48.!!Orwin.!Donna!Tussing.!Tolstoy’s'Art'and'Thought,'1847X1880.!Princeton!UP,!1993.!Paperno,!Irina.!“Who,'What'am'I?”'Tolstoy'Struggles'to'Narrate'the'Self.!Ithaca:!Cornell!UP,!

2014.!

Schultze,!Sydney.!The'Structure'of'Anna'Karenina!(Ann!Arbor:!Ardis,!1982)!Seifrid,!Thomas.!!'Gazing!on!Life's!Page:!Perspectival!Vision!in!Tolstoy,'!PMLA!113:3!(May!

1998),!436C448.!

Tapp,!Alyson.!‘Moving!Stories:!(E)motion!and!Narrative!in!Anna'Karenina,’!Russian'Literature!61:3!(2007),!341C361.!!

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Turner,!C.J.G.!'Psychology,!Rhetoric!and!Morality!in!Anna'Karenina,''SEEJ!39:!2!(1995):!261C268![Jstor]!

Weir,!Justin.!'Anna!Incommunicada:!Language!and!Consciousness!in!Anna''Karenina,'!!TSJ'VIII:!99C111!.!

Whitcomb,!Curt.!‘Resisting!the!Effortless!in!Anna'Karenina,’!TSJ'VII:!32C43!!Whitcomb,!Curt.!!'Treacherous!«Charm»!in!Anna'Karenina,'!!Slavic'and'East'European'Journal!!

39:2!(Summer!1995),!214C226!![Jstor]!

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Section!B:!Prescribed!Authors:!Gogol’!and!Chekhov!!

B1.!!Nikolai!Gogol’!(Michaelmas)!! !!!Part!IB,!Option!A!students!should!select,!as!a!minimum,!2!short!stories!to!read.!

! !!Part!IB,!Option!B!&!Part!II!students!should!read,!as!a!minimum,!3!works!(from!among!the!

short!stories,!with!the!option!of!Revizor!also)'OR!they!may!choose!to!focus!on!Gogol's!novel,!

Mertvye'dushi!and!at!least!1!other!shorter!work.!!!

!

from!Vechera'na'khutore'bliz'Dikan’ki,!Part!One!(1831)!' Chast’!pervaia:!‘Predislovie’!!

‘Sorochinskaia!iarmarka’!

from!Mirgorod,!Part!Two!(1835)!' ‘Vii’!!

‘Povest’!o!tom,!kak!possorilis’!Ivan!Ivanovich!s!Ivanom!Nikiforovichem’!

Petersburg!Tales!

! ‘Nevskii!Prospekt’!!

‘Portret’!!

‘Zapiski!sumasshedshego’!!

‘Nos’' !

Revizor!(for!Drama!topic!also)!Mertvye'dushi'(Part!One;!Part!Two!may!also!be!read)!

!

!

Secondary!readings!Bely,!Andrei.!!Gogol’s'Artistry![Masterstvo'Gogolia],!trans.!Christopher!Colbath.!Evanston:!

Northwestern!UP,!2009.!

Cornwell,!Neil.!‘Antecedents!to!the!Absurd’!in!The'Absurd'in'Literature.!Manchester:!

Manchester!UP,!2006.!!33C65.!

Fanger,!Donald.!!The'Creation'of'Nikolai'Gogol.!Cambridge,!MA:!Belknap!Press,!1979.!

Franklin,!Simon.!!‘Novels!without!End:!Notes!on!"Eugene!Onegin"!and!"Dead!Souls."’!

The'Modern'Language'Review,!Vol.!79,!No.!2!(Apr.,!1984),!pp.!372C383!Frazier,!Melissa.!!Frames'of'the'Imagination:'Gogol’s'Arabesques'and'the'Romantic'Question'

of'Genre.!New!York:!Peter!Lang,!2000.!

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Fusso,!Suzanne.!!Designing'Dead'Souls:'An'Anatomy'of'Disorder'in'Gogol.!Stanford:!Stanford!UP,!1993.!

Fusso,!Susanne!and!Priscilla!Meyer!(eds.)!!Essays'on'Gogol:'Logos'and'the'Russian'Word.!Evanston:!Northwestern!European!Press,!1992.!

Gippius,!V.V.!!Gogol!(1924)!Ed.!and!trans.!Robert!Maguire.!!Ann!Arbor:!Ardis,!1981.!

Graffy,!Julian.!!‘The!Devil!is!in!the!Detail:!Demonic!Features!of!Gogol’s!Petersburg’!in!Russian'Literature'and'its'Demons.!!Ed.!Pamela!Davidson.!!New!York!&!Oxford:!Berghahn!Books,!

2000.!

Grayson,!Jane!and!Faith!Wizgell!(eds.).!Nikolai'Gogol:'Text'and'Context.!!New!York:!St!Martin’s!

Press,!1989.!

Griffiths,!Frederick!T.!and!Stanley!Rabinowitz.!!Epic'and'the'Russian'Novel'from'Gogol'to'Pasternak.!Boston:!Academic!Studies!Press,!2011.!

Karlinsky,!Simon.!!The'Sexual'Labyrinth'of'Nikolai'Gogol.!Chicago:!Univ!of!Chicago!Press,!1976.!Lotman,!Iurii.!‘Problema!khudozhestvennogo!prostranstva!v!proze!Gogolia’!(1968)!

http://philologos.narod.ru/lotman/gogolspace.htm!

Lotman,!Iurii.!!‘Concerning!Khlestakov’!in!The'Semiotics'of'Russian'Cultural'History.!Ithaca:!Cornell!UP,!1995.!150C87.!

Maguire,!Robert.!!Exploring'Gogol.!Stanford:!Stanford!UP,!1994.!Maguire,!Robert!(ed.)!Gogol'from'the'Twentieth'Century.!Princeton:!Princeton!UP,!1974.!Nabokov,!Vladimir.!Nikolai'Gogol.!![various!editions]!De!Oliviera,!Cassio.!‘Skuka!and!the!Absurd!in!Gogol’s!Tale!of!the!“Two!Ivans”’.!!

CanadianSlavonic'Papers,!Vol.!51!NO.2/3!(2009),!287C303.!![JSTOR]!Peace,!Richard.!!The'Enigma'of'Gogol.!Cambridge:!CUP,!1981.!

Popkin,!Cathy.!!The'Pragmatics'of'Insignificance:'Chekhov,'Zoshchenko,'Gogol.!Stanford:!Stanford!UP,!1993.!

Spieker,!Sven.!!Gogol:'Exploring'Absence:'Negativity'in'NineteenthXcentury'Russian'literature.!Bloomington:!Slavica,!1999.!

Todd,!William!Mills.!‘Dead'Souls:!Charmed'by'a'Phrase’!in!Literature'and'Society'in'the'Age'of'Pushkin.!Cambridge,!Mass.,!1986.!164C200.!

!

links!to!critical!works!on!Gogol!in!Russian:!

http://febFweb.ru/feb/gogol/default.asp?/feb/gogol/critics/FgoFcrl1.htm!!

Collections!of!essays!on!Gogol!can!be!found!in!the!journal!editions!Essays'in'Poetics,!(2003!&!2004),!Vols.!28!&!29.!

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B2.!!Anton!Chekhov!(Lent)!The!stories!marked!*!are!suggested!for!the!attention!of!Part!IB,!Option!A!students.!

!Early!stories:!!

*‘Smert’!chinovnika’!!

*‘Meliuzga’!!

*‘Eger’’!!

*‘Aniuta’!!

‘Neschast’e’!!

Novella:!‘Step’’!

Later!stories:!! ‘Skuchnoe!istoriia’!! ! ‘Palata!nomer!6’!!

‘Chernyi!monakh’!! ! ‘Student’!!

‘Dom!s!mezzaninom’!! ! ‘Chelovek!v!futliare’!!

‘Kryzhovnik’!! ! ! ‘O!liubvi’!!

*‘Dama!s!sobachkoi’!

Theatre:!! Chaika'' ' ' 'Vishnev’yi'sad'(plays!for!Drama!topic!also)!

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Secondary!Reading!(General)!Gottlieb,!Vera,!and!Paul!Allain.!The'Cambridge'Companion'to'Chekhov.!Cambridge:!Cambridge!

University!Press.!2000.!!!Ch.1C3!for!background.!

Karlinsky,!Simon.!!“Introduction:!The!Gentle!Subversive”!in!Letters'of'Anton'Chekhov.!New!York:!Harper!&!Row,!1973.!1C32.!![Reprinted!in!Wellek,!René!and!Nonna!D.!Wellek.!

Chekhov,'New'Perspectives.!Englewood!Cliffs,!N.J.:!PrenticeCHall,!1984.!31C68.!Loehlin,!James!N.!!The'Cambridge'Introduction'to'Chekhov.!Cambridge:!CUP,!2010.!

'Secondary!Readings!on!Prose!Chudakov,!A.!P.!Chekhov’s'Poetics.!!Trans.!Jannie!Cruise!and!Donald!Dragt.!!Ann!Arbor,!1983.!Eikhenbaum,!Boris.!!“Chekhov!at!Large”!in!Jackson!(ed.)!Chekhov:'A'Critical'Essays!(Englewood!

Cliffs,!N.J.:!Prentice!Hall,!1967),!21C31.!!

Finke,!Michael.!!‘Of!Interpretation!and!Stolen!Kisses:!From!Poetics!to!Metapoetics!in!

Chekhov’s!“The!Kiss”!in!Apollonio!and!Brintlinger!(eds.).!Chekhov'for'the'21st'Century.!!(Bloomington:!Indiana,!2012),!127C47.!

Finke,!Michael.!!‘Chekhov’s!“The!Steppe”:!A!Metapoetic!Journey’!in!Metapoesis:'The'Russian'Tradition'from'Pushkin'to'Chekhov''(Durham!&!London:!Duke!UP,!1995),!134C66.!!

Hagan,!John.!!"Chekhov's!Fiction!and!the!Ideal!of!!'Objectivity',!PMLA!81:!409C417!Jackson,!Robert!Louis.!!“Introduction”!in!Reading'Chekhov's'Text,!ed.!Robert!Louis!Jackson,!

Northwestern!UP,!1993.!![+!see!other!essays!in!this!volume.]!

Popkin,!Cathy.!!The'Pragmatics'of'Insignificance:'Chekhov,'Zoshchenko,'Gogol.!Stanford:!Stanford!UP,!1993.!

!

Secondary!Readings!on!Drama:!(See!also!Drama!topic!in!Section!C)!

Borny,!Geoffrey.!!Interpreting'Chekhov.!Canberra:!ANU!E!Press,!2006.!Magarshack,!David.!!Chekhov'the'Dramatist.!New!York:!Hill!&!Wang,!1960.!

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Muza,!Anna.!!‘The'Marriage'of'Figaro,'the!Marriage!of!Lopakhin:!The!Hero’s!Revolt’!in!

Apollonio!and!Brintlinger!(eds.).!Chekhov'for'the'21st'Century.!!(Bloomington:!Indiana,!

2012),!167C79.!

Peace,!Richard!Arthur.!Chekhov:'A'Study'of'the'Four'Major'Plays.!New!Haven ;London:!Yale!University!Press,!1983.!

Pitcher,!Harvey.!!“The!Chekhov!Play”!in!Wellek,!Chekhov,'New'Perspectives,!69C106.!Rayfield,!Donald.!Understanding'Chekhov:'A'Critical'Study'of'Chekhov’s'Prose'and'Drama.!

Russian!Studies.!Bristol:!Bristol!Classical!Press,!1999.!

Senelick,!Laurence.!The'Chekhov'Theatre:'A'Century'of'the'Plays'in'Performance.!Cambridge:!

CUP,!1997.!

Wellek,!René!and!Nonna!D.!Wellek.!Chekhov,'New'Perspectives.!!Englewood!Cliffs,!N.J.:!PrenticeCHall,!1984.!

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Section!C:!Topics!!

C1:!The!Elegy!(Michaelmas)!Selected!poetry!by!Zhukovskii,!Batiushkov,!Pushkin,!Baratynskii,!Lermontov.!!

!

! !!The!poems!marked!*!are!suggested!for!the!attetion!of!Part!IB,!Option!A!students.!! !!The!poems!are!listed!by!poet,!and!then!by—loose—subCcategories!of!the!genre.!!In!many!

instances!the!designation!is!not!clearCcut,!and!is!as!much!a!point!for!discussion!as!clear!

categorization.!!If!you!decide!that!you!want!to!make!an!excursion!into!‘historical’!or!‘exilic’!

elegy,!say,!then!these!categories!will!guide!you.!

! !!In!all!cases,!students!should!read!elegies!from!more!than!one!category.!

!

V.A.!Zhukovskii!

*‘Sel’skoe!kladbishche,’!*‘Na!smert’!Andreia!Turgeneva,’!‘K!K.!M.!Sokovninoi,’!!

‘Vecher!(elegiia)’!

K.N.!Batiushkov!

*‘Vyzdorovlenie,’!‘Ten’!druga,’!‘Na!razvalinakh!zamka!v!Shvetsii,’!*‘Moi!genii,’!

!‘Perekhod!cherez!Rein’!

A.S.!Pushkin!

*‘Probuzhdenie,’!‘Naezdniki,’!*‘Pogaslo!dnevnoe!svetilo,’!!

*‘Ia!perezhil!svoi!zhelan’ia,’!‘Umolknu!skoro!ia!...,’!!

‘Prostish’!li!mne!revnivye!mechty,’!*‘K!moriu,’!*‘Vospominanie,’!!

‘Brozhu!li!ia!vdol’!ulits!shumnykh’!

E.A.!Baratynskii!!*(Option'A:'pick'any'one'poem)!! ‘Razluka’!(“Rasstalis’!my;!na!mig!ocharovanie”),!‘Razuveren’e,’!‘Priznanie’!!

M.!Iu.!Lermontov!

*‘Gliazhu!na!budushchnost’!s!boiazn’iu’!!(Option'A:'OR'‘Duma’),!*‘Duma,’!‘Son,’!!

*‘I!skuchno!i!grustno’!

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‘Foundational’'elegy'for'19th'C'Russian'tradition:!‘Sel’skoe!kladbishche’!(1802)!Gloomy'elegy:!Zhukovskii,!‘Vecher!(elegiia)’!Love'poem/Erotic'elegy:!Batiushkov,!‘Vyzdorovlenie’,!‘Moi!genii’;!Baratynskii,!‘Razluka’!(1820),!

‘Priznanie’!(1824/35);!Pushkin,!‘Probuzhdenie’,!‘Naezdniki’,!‘Umolknu!skoro!ia!...,!’‘Prostish’!li!

mne!revnivye!mechty’;!Lermontov,!‘Son’!!

Funereal'elegy:!Zhukovskii,!‘Na!smert’!Andreia!Turgeneva’;!‘K!K.!M.!Sokovninoi’;!Batiushkov,!

‘Ten’!druga’!

Historical'elegy:!Batiushkov,!‘Na!razvalinakh!zamka!v!Shvetsii’,!‘Perekhod!cherez!Rein’!

Byronic'elegy:!Pushkin,!‘Ia!perezhil!svoi!zhelan’ia’;!Lermontov,!‘I!skuchno!i!grustno’!

Contemplative/meditative'elegy:!Pushkin,!‘Pogaslo!dnevnoe!svetilo’,!‘Vospominanie’,!‘Brozhu!

li!ia!vdol’!ulits!shumnykh’;!Lermontov,!‘Gliazhu!na!budushchnost’!s!boiazn’iu’,!‘Duma’.!

Exilic'elegy:!Pushkin,!*‘K!moriu’!

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Secondary!Readings!!

Theoretical!Reading!Sacks,!Peter!M.!The'English'Elegy:'Studies'in'the'Genre'from'Spenser'to'Yeats.!Baltimore:!

Johns!Hopkins!University!Press,!1985.!‘Introduction’,!pp.!1C37.!

!

! On!versification!Wachtel,!Michael.!The'Cambridge'Introduction'to'Russian'Poetry!(CUP:!2004)!

(Chapters!1C3!are!about!reading!a!poem;!!Chapter!1!gives!a!good!overview!of!

versification;!!

*See!also:!Ch4!‘From!the!Ode!to!the!Elegy’!

For!more!detail!on!poetic!meter!see:!

Wachtel,!Michael.!!The'Development'of'Russian'Verse:'Meter'and'its'Meanings'(CUP:!1998.!!On!poetry!and!elegy!Frizman,!L.!G.!Zhizn'liricheskogo'zhanra:'russkaia'elegiia'ot'Sumerokova'do'Nekrasova.!

Moscow:!Nauka,!1973.!

Ginzburg,!L.!Ia.!O'lirike.!2nd!edition.!Moscow:!Sovetskii!pisatel’,!1974.!

! Golburt,!Luba.!“Derzhavin’s!Ruins!and!the!Birth!of!Historical!Elegy.”!Slavic'Review!65,!no.!4!(winter!2006):!670C693.!!(though!Derzhavin!is!not!one!of!our!main!poets!C!still!useful)!

Todd,!III,!William!Mills.!“A!Russian!Ideology”!and!“Institutions!of!Literature”!in!Fiction'and'Society'in'the'Age'of'Pushkin,!pp!10C44!&!45C105.!

Tosi,!Alessandra.!“Fiction!in!Alexander’s!Russia:!the!Social!and!Cultural!Context”!in!Waiting'for'Pushkin:'Russian'Fiction'in'the'Reign'of'Alexander'I'(1801X1825),!pp!19C62!

Wachtel,!Andrew!and!Ilya!Vinitsky.!“The!Spirit!of!Poetry:!Russian!Culture!in!the!Age!of!

Alexander!I”!in!Russian'Literature.!Cambridge:!Polity,!2009.!57C88.!

Vatsuro,!V.E.!Lirika'Pushkinskoi'pory:'elegicheskaia'shkola.!!St!Petersburg:!Nauka,!1994.!!

Works!on!individual!poets!For!a!quick,!wellCwritten!overview!of!each!poet,!in!terms!of!both!poetry!and!biography,!see!

Encyclopedia'of'the'Romantic'Era,'1760X1850!(ed.!Christopher!John!Murray).!Includes!entries!

on!Batiushkov,!Baratnyskii,!Zhukovskii,!Pushkin,!Lermontov,!Tiutchev.!Neil!Cornwell’s!

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Reference'Guide'to'Russian'Literature!is!similarly!useful!and!includes!entries!on!all!the!poets!

in!the!topic.!

!Zhukovskii!Ciepiela,!Catherine.!“Reading!Russian!Pastoral:!Zhukovsky’s!Translation!of!Gray’s!Elegy.”!In!

Rereading'Russian'Poetry.!New!Haven:!Yale!University!Press,!1999.!Semenko,!I.!M.!Vasily'Zhukovsky.!Boston,!Twayne,!1976.!Eikhenbaum,!B.!M.!“Zhukovskii”!in!Melodika:'russkogo'liricheskogo'stikha,!pp!27C71!Vinitisky,!Ilya.!!Vasily'Zhukovsky’s'Romanticism'and'the'Emotional'History'of'Russia.'Evanston:!

Northwestern!UP!(2015)!![new!title!–!on!order!in!library]!

!

Batiushkov!Serman,!I.!Z.!!Konstantin'Batyushkov.!New!York:!Twayne,!1974.!(an!English!language!

biography)!

Monika!Greenleaf,!“Found!in!Translation:!the!Subject!of!Batiushkov’s!Poetry”!in!Russian'Subjects:'Empire,'Nation,'and'the'Culture'of'the'Golden'Age!(ed.!Greenleaf!and!MoellerC

Sally),!pp!51C80!

N.!V.!Fridman,!“Khudozhestvennyi!metod!i!stil’!BatiushkovaCpoeta”!in!Poeziia'Batiushkova!(Moscow:!Nauka,!1971),!pp!253C314!

!

Baratynskii!Brown,!William!Edward.!!A'History'of'Russian'Literature'of'the'Romantic'Period.!!Ann!Arbor,!

MI:!Ardis,!1986.!

Dees,!Jospeh!Benjamin.!!E.'A.'Baratynsky.!New!York:!Twayne,!1972.!Sarah!Pratt,!!Russian'Metaphysical'Romanticism:'the'Poetry'of'Tiutchev'and'Boratynskii.!

Stanford:!Stanford!UP,!1984.!

!

Pushkin!T.!J.!Binyon,!Pushkin:'A'Biography.!New!York:!Alfred!A.!Knopf,!2003.!!Bethea,!David!and!Davydov,!Sergei.!!“Pushkin’s!Biography”!in!The'Pushkin'Handbook.!Еd.!

David!Bethea.!!Madison:!Univ!of!Wisconsin!Press,!2005.!3C24.!

Eikhenbaum,!Boris.!“Pushkin,!Tiutchev,!Lermontov”!in!Melodika:'russkogo'liricheskogo'stikha,!pp!72C118!

Gasparov,!Boris.!“Pushkin!and!Romanticism”!in!The'Pushkin'Handbook'(ed.!Bethea),!pp!537C567!

Greenleaf,!Monika.!Pushkin'and'Romantic'Fashion:'Fragment,'Elegy,'Orient,'Irony.''Stanford,!Calif.:!Stanford!University!Press,!1994.!!56C107.!

Kahn,!Andrew.!!“Pushkin’s!Lyric!Identities”!in!The'Cambridge'Companion'to'Pushkin'(ed.!Kahn),!pp!26C40.!!

CCCCC.!Pushkin’s'Lyric'Intelligence!(Oxford:!OUP!2008).![for!consultation!on!individual!poems.]!

Ram,!Harsha.!The'Imperial'Sublime:'A'Russian'Poetics'of'Empire.!Madison:!University!of!

Wisconsin!Press,!2003.!Esp.!176C86!and!198C211.!

Sandler,!Stephanie.!“Baratynskii,!Pushkin,!and!Hamlet:!On!Mourning!and!Poetry”,!Russian'Review,!Vol.!42,!No.!1!(Jan.,!1983),!pp.!73C90.!

CCCCC.!Distant'Pleasures:'Alexander'Pushkin'and'the'Writing'of'Exile.!Stanford:!Stanford!UP,!1989.!!57C76.!![on!‘K!moriu’]!!

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Wachtel,!Michael.!A'Companion'to'Pushkin’s'Lyric'Poetry.!!Madison:!University!of!Wisconsin!

Press,!2011.![useful!commentary/glossary!aids!in!reading!of!individual!poems!from!

Pushkin’s!later!period.!

!

!

Lermontov!Eikhenbaum,!“Pushkin,!Tiutchev,!Lermontov”!in!Melodika:'russkogo'liricheskogo'stikha,!pp!

72C118.!

Powelstock,!David.!!“Living!into!Language:!Mikhail!Lermontov!and!the!Manufacturing!of!

Intimacy”!in!Russian'Subjects!(ed.!Greenleaf!and!MoellerCSally),!pp!297C324!

CCCCC.!Becoming'Mikhail'Lermontov:'The'Ironies'of'Romantic'Individualism'Nicholas'I’s'Russia.!Evanston:!Northwestern!UP,!2005.!![selections]!!

Ginzburg,!L.!Ia.!!‘Poetika!lichnosti’!in!O'lirike.!Ram,!Harsha.!The'Imperial'Sublime:'A'Russian'Poetics'of'Empire.!Madison:!University!of!

Wisconsin!Press,!2003.!Esp.!199C207.!

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C2:!!Fiction!and!Ideology!in!the!1860s!(Lent)!!

Core!Texts:!Ivan!Turgenev,!Otsy'i'deti!(1862)!Nikolai!Chernyshevskii,!‘Chetvertyi!son!Very!Pavlovny’!(excerpt!from!Chto'delat’?,!1863)!!Fedor!Dostoevskii,!Zapiski'iz'podpol'ia!(1864)!Part!IB,!Option!A!students!should!read!Part!I!in!Russian;!Part!II!may!be!read!in!English.!

Dostoevskii,!Besy'(1872)!–!this!long!novel!is!optional,!but!should!be!read!in!the!vacation/year!abroad!by!those!with!a!particular!interest!in!Dostoevskii.!!!

Secondary!Readings!Jones,!Malcolm!and!Robin!Feuer!Miller!(eds.).!Cambridge'Companion'to'the'Classic!Russian'

Novel.'Cambridge:!CUP,!1998.''[Especially!the!chapters!“Politics,”!“Psychology!and!Society”!and!“Philosophy!in!the!NineteenthCcentury!Novel”]!

Leatherbarrow,!William!and!Derek!Offord!(eds.).!!'A'History'of'Russian'Thought.!Cambridge:!

CUP,!2010.!!'Riasanovsky,!Nicholas.!Russian'Identities:'A'Historical'Survey.!Oxford:!Oxford!UP,!2005.!Walicki,!Andrzej.!!A'History'of'Russian'Thought'from'the'Enlightenment'to'Marxism'(Stanford:!

Stanford!University!Press,!1979)'!Turgenev!Allen,!Elizabeth!Cheresh.!Beyond'realism:'Turgenev's'poetics'of'secular'salvation.!Stanford:!

Stanford!Univ.!Press,!1992.!

Mathewson,!Rufus.!W.!The'Positive'Hero'in'Russian'Literature.!2nd!ed.!Evanston,!IL:!Northwestern!UP,!1999.!

Orwin,!Donna!Tussing.!Consequences'of'Consciousness:'Turgenev,'Dostoevsky,'and'Tolstoy.!Stanford!University!Press,!2007.!Esp.!92C112!

Paperno,!Irina.!Chernyshevsky'and'the'Age'of'Realism'[“Introduction”:!on!the!reception!of!

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Ottsy'i'deti'in!the!1860s]!Russell!S.!Valentino,!“A!Wolf!in!Arkadia:!Generic!Fields,!Generic!Counterstatement!and!the!

Resources!of!Pastoral!in!Fathers'and'Sons”!Russian'Review,!Vol.!55,!No.!3!(Jul.,!1996),!pp.!475C493:!http://www.jstor.org/stable/131795!

!

The!Norton!Critical!edition!of!Fathers'and'Sons'(ed.!&!trans.!Michael!Katz)!contains!a!very!

useful!selection!of!critical!materials!and!articles.!

!Chernyshevsky!!(«Четвертый!сон!Веры!Павловны»!from!Что!делать?)!Irina!Paperno,!Chernyshevsky'and'the'Age'of'Realism:'A'Study'in'the'Semiotics'of'Behavior.'

Stanford:!Stanford!University!Press,!1988.!

!Dostoevsky!! !Записки!из!подполья!!Bakhtin,!Mikhail.!Problems'of'Dostoevsky’s'Poetics.!Minneapolis:!University!of!Minnesota!

Press,!1984.!227C37.!

Joseph!Frank,!Dostoevsky:'The'Stir'of'Liberation,'1860X65.'Princeton:!Princeton!University!Press,!1977.!310C467.!

Michael!Holquist,!Dostoevsky'and'the'Novel!(Princeton:!Princeton!University!Press,!1977).!Knapp,!Liza.!The'Annihilation'of'Inertia:'Dostoevsky'and'Metaphysics.!Northwestern!UP:!1996.!!

! !Besy!Anderson,!Nancy!K.,!The'Perverted'Ideal'in'Dostoevsky’s'The!Devils.!New!York:!Peter!Lang,!

1997.!

Apollonio,!Carol,!“The!Demon!of!Doubt!and!the!Revenge!of!the!Neglected!Son:!Demons”!in!

Dostoevsky’s'Secrets:'Reading'Against'the'Grain.'Evanston,!IL:!Northwestern!UP,!2009.!104C116.!

Frank,!Joseph.!!Dostoevsky:'The'Miraculous'Years,'1865X1871.!(London:!Robson!Books,!1995)'!CC!on!Besy,'see!396C498.!

Leatherbarrow,!William.!!Dostoevsky’s'The!Devils:'A'Critical'Companion.!Evanston,!IL:!Northwestern!UP,!1999.!

CCCCCCCCCC.!!‘The!Devils’!Vaudeville:!“Decoding”!the!Demonic!in!Dostoevsky’s!The'Devils!in!Russian'Literature'and'its'Demons.!!Ed.!Pamela!Davidson.!!New!York!&!Oxford:!Berghahn!

Books,!2000.!

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! !General/both!texts!Scanlan,!James.!Dostoevsky'the'Thinker.!Ithaca:!Cornell!UP,!2002.!Leatherbarrow,!William.!!Cambridge'Companion'to'Dostoevskii.!Cambridge:!CUP,!2002.!

Ward,!Bruce!K.,!Dostoevsky’s'Critique'of'the'West:'The'Quest'for'Earthly'Paradise.!Waterloo!&!

Ontario:!Wilfrid!Laurier!UP,!1986.!

Williams,!Rowan.!!Dostoevsky:'Language,'Faith,'and'Fiction.!Waco,!TX:!Baylor!UP,!2008.!

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C3:!!The!Drama!in!the!Nineteenth!Century!(1!lecture!end!of!Michaelmas,!1!lecture!end!of!Lent)!!!!Core!texts!!

Griboedov! Gore'ot'uma'(1822C23)!Gogol! ! Revizor!(1836)!Ostrovsky! Groza!(1859)!Chekhov! Chaika'(1896)!' ' Vishnev’yi'sad!(1904)!

[Diadia'Vania'(1899)!/!Tri'sestry'(1901)'!C!as!addition/alternatives,!if!you!wish,!though!lectures!will!focus!on!the!other!two!plays]!

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See!readings!lists!for!Gogol!and!Chekhov!in!Section!B.!!Griboedov!Gershkovich,!Alexander.!!‘Russian!Romantic!Drama:!The!Case!of!Griboedov’!in!Romantic'

Drama.!Ed.!Gerald!Gillespie.!!Amsterdam!and!Philadelphia:!J.!Benjamins,!1994.!

Kalbouss, George.!‘Rhyming!Patterns!in!Griboedov’s!Gore'ot'uma’.!The'Slavic'and'East'European'Journal,!39:1!(1985),!pp.!1C13.!![JSTOR]!

Tynianov,!Iu.!N.!‘Siuzhet!“Gore!ot!uma”’!!http://az.lib.ru/t/tynjanow_j_n/text_0150.shtml!

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Ostrovsky!Peace,!Richard.!!‘A.!N.!Ostrovksy’s!“The!Thunderstorm”:!The!Dramatization!of!Conceptual!

Ambivalance’.!The'Modern'Language'Review'84.9!(1989),!99C110.!![JSTOR] Rahman,!Kate!Sealey.!Ostrovsky:'Reality'and'Illusion.!Birmingham:!Birmingham!Slavonic!

Monographs,!1999.!

CCCCCCCCCC.!!‘Aleksandr!Ostrovsky!–!dramatist!and!director’!in!A'History'of'Russian'Theatre.!!Eds.!Robert!Leach!and!Victor!Borovsky.!!Cambridge,!CUP,!1999.!

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General!Leach,!Robert!and!Victor!Borovsky.!!A'History'of'Russian'Theatre.!Cambridge,!CUP,!1999.!

Listengarten,!Julia.!!Russian'Tragifarce:'its'cultural'and'political'roots.!!Cranbury,!NJ:!Associated!University!Presses,!2000.!

Pavis,!Patrice!and!Christine!Shantz.!!Dictionary'of'the'Theatre:'Terms,'Concepts,'and'Analysis.!!Toronto:!University!of!Toronto!Press,!1998.!

Schuler,!Catherine.!!Theatre'and'Identity'in'Imperial'Russia.!!Iowa!City:!University!of!Iowa!Press,!2009.!

Senelick,!Laurence,!ed.!!Russian'Dramatic'Theory'from'Pushkin'to'the'Symbolists:'An'Anthology.!!Austin:!University!of!Texas!Press,!1981.!

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