Unit RUSSIAN LITERATURE III
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- GP004930
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Maria Plioukhanova
- Teachers
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- Maria Plioukhanova
- Hours
- 54 ore - Maria Plioukhanova
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/21
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Lev Tolstoy and his contemporaries: Turgenev, Goncharov; Nekrasov; Fet. Theater.
The specificity of Russian realism, its location in the context of European literature. Psychological analysis, space. - Reference texts
- Various chapters from the volumes:
Storia della civiltà letteraria russa. UTET, vol I. 1997.
N.Riasanovsky, "History of Russia. From its origins to the present day ", Milan, Bompiani Paperback, 1997 and other editions.
Reading texts:
Lev Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"; "Childhood"; The fragments of "War and Peace"; some short stories.
Iv. Turgenev. "The nest of the nobles" or "Fathers and sons": Goncharov. The fragments of the novel "Oblomov". - Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide the knowledge base for understanding the literary and cultural history of Russia in the 19th century.
- Prerequisites
- In order to able to understand and to know to tackle the course, the student must have the general notions concerning the historical context of European nineteenth-century culture.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons will deal with the key issues and problems related to the russian literature of the second half of 19th cent. and the relationschip literature/ story and the evolution of literary poetics.
The reading of the pieces of the works with historical and cultural comments and the analysis of poetry. - Other information
- Frequency is highly recommended. Non-attending students will have to present at the beginning of the course at the reception hours to agree with the teacher the special program.
- Learning verification modality
- the esam included only the final oral test consisting of a discussion-intervew on the topics discussed during the course and examined indepth through the recommended texts.
The main focus of the exam is the discussion of the texts chosen by the student from the list proposed in the in-depth reading program. - Extended program
- The specificity of realism in Russia; the great Russian novel, its location in the context of European literature. The psychological analysis, artistic space and time in the work of Russian realism: Turgenev; Goncharov; the poetry of the era of realism.
The monographic part: The life and work of L.N.Tolstoj; the Tolstojan current and Tolstoism.