*All readings are to be completed by the day assigned.
Week 1
Monday, May 19 Introduction to the Course: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Bulgakov
Tuesday, May 20 Mini-Lecture: Russian Literature before Tolstoy
Wednesday, May 21 Reading: War and Peace, Book 1, pp. 3-114.
Mini-Lecture: The Napoleonic Wars on the Eastern Front
Thursday, May 22 Reading: War and Peace, Book 2, pp. 117-213.
Mini-Lecture: The Russian Gentry at its Apex
Week 2
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day Holiday - No Class
Tuesday, May 27 Reading: War and Peace, Book 3 & 4, pp. 217-373.
Wednesday, May 28 Mini-Lecture: Tolstoy's Discourse Style
Thursday, May 29 Reading: War and Peace, Book 5, pp. 377-453.
Week 3
Monday, June 2 Reading: War and Peace, Book 6, pp. 457-534 & pp. 1395-1415.
Mini-Lecture: Structural Features of War and Peace
Tuesday, June 3 Reading: War and Peace, Book 7, pp. 537-588
Wednesday, June 4 Mini-Lecture: Masters and Peasants
*In-class writing assignment. Discussion of Paper #1 topics.
Thursday, June 5 Reading: War and Peace, Book 8, pp. 591-664
Week 4
Monday, June 9 Reading: War and Peace, Book 9, p. 667-757
*Proposal for Paper #1 Due
Tuesday, June 10 Reading: War and Peace, Book 10, 761-914
Mini-Lecture: Men and Women in War and Peace
Wednesday, June 11 Reading: War and Peace, Book 11, pp. 917-1034.
Thursday, June 12 Reading: War and Peace, Book 12 & 13, pp. 1037-1141.
Week 5
Monday, June 16 Reading: War and Peace, Books 14 & 15, pp. 1145-1250.
Tuesday, June 17 Reading: War and Peace, Epilogues 1 & 2, pp. 1253-1351.
Mini-Lecture: Freedom or Determinism?
Wednesday, June 18 Mini-Lecture: Structure of The Brothers Karamazov
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Syllabus
University of California, Berkeley
Comparative Literature 161
Cross-listed with Slavic Languages & Literature 161
Survey of Russian Novels
Lectures: MTuWTh 12-2, 290 Dwinelle Hall
Office Hours: MW 2-3, 3252 Dwinelle Hall or By Appointment
Instructor: Matthew Yau
Overview
The course is devoted to three major works of Russian literature of the 19th-20th centuries and their stage representations. Lectures and discussion of major novels. While our emphasis will be on close readings of individual texts, we will pay special attention to the evolution of individual author's art and his thinking on a range of political, social, religious, and philosophical issues. The course's dual focus will be on contemporary implications of dramatic texts and on their theatrical life in and through time, in various historical, political, and national frameworks. We will read short stories central to the Russian literary and dramatic tradition and also associated with the idea of the Russian theater in the West. The course will address their contemporary historical and cultural subtexts, thematic and conceptual properties, and formal idiom.
Format: Lectures (with viewing of films/slides) and required discussion session. All readings are in English.
Requirements: Weekly readings and active class participation; take-home research assignments. There will be 2 short papers (5-8 pages) and a long paper (15+ pages); short in-class quizzes; and final.
Grading: Student will be evaluated on an individual basis drawn upon the progress made throughout the course. Three papers (20% each), final (20%), reading quizzes (10%) and in-class participation (10%).
Breadth requirements: Arts and Literature or Historical Studies.
Slavic majors and minors: Consult instructor or undergraduate adviser.
Main Texts:
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Course Reader
Prerequisites:
Reading and Composition 1B, Comparative Literature major or minors
Comparative Literature 161
Cross-listed with Slavic Languages & Literature 161
Survey of Russian Novels
Lectures: MTuWTh 12-2, 290 Dwinelle Hall
Office Hours: MW 2-3, 3252 Dwinelle Hall or By Appointment
Instructor: Matthew Yau
Overview
The course is devoted to three major works of Russian literature of the 19th-20th centuries and their stage representations. Lectures and discussion of major novels. While our emphasis will be on close readings of individual texts, we will pay special attention to the evolution of individual author's art and his thinking on a range of political, social, religious, and philosophical issues. The course's dual focus will be on contemporary implications of dramatic texts and on their theatrical life in and through time, in various historical, political, and national frameworks. We will read short stories central to the Russian literary and dramatic tradition and also associated with the idea of the Russian theater in the West. The course will address their contemporary historical and cultural subtexts, thematic and conceptual properties, and formal idiom.
Format: Lectures (with viewing of films/slides) and required discussion session. All readings are in English.
Requirements: Weekly readings and active class participation; take-home research assignments. There will be 2 short papers (5-8 pages) and a long paper (15+ pages); short in-class quizzes; and final.
Grading: Student will be evaluated on an individual basis drawn upon the progress made throughout the course. Three papers (20% each), final (20%), reading quizzes (10%) and in-class participation (10%).
Breadth requirements: Arts and Literature or Historical Studies.
Slavic majors and minors: Consult instructor or undergraduate adviser.
Main Texts:
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Course Reader
Prerequisites:
Reading and Composition 1B, Comparative Literature major or minors
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