Unit SLAVIC PHILOLOGY
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- 35078909
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Maria Plioukhanova
- Teachers
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- Maria Plioukhanova
- Hours
- 54 ore - Maria Plioukhanova
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline filologiche
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/21
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
with the reading of texts in ecclesiastical Slavonic, Old Russian and Russian. - Contents
- Indo-European origins and dialectal position of the Slavic class; the Cyril-Metodian mission and the paleoslavic; the Slavic peoples of the Middle Ages; within the visiting course prof. Afanasjeva (St. Petersburg State University) will carry out a cycle of lessons entitled "Ecclesiastical Slavic language and ancient Russian language".
The monographic part: an approach to the knowledge of the Eastern Slavic world through the study of folklore and traditional rites. - Reference texts
- Marcello Garzaniti. Gli Slavi. Storia, culture e lingue dalle origini ai nostri giorni. Roma, Carocci editore, 2013
N. Marcialis. Introduzione alla lingua paleosava. Firenze 2005. Collana: Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici.
Vl. Propp. Le radici storiche dei racconti di magia. Newton Compton (collana Grandi tascabili economici) ed. 3, 2012 ,
or one of the previous editions. - Educational objectives
- The knowledge of the salient moments of the cultural history of the Slavic world with a particular deepening of the question concerning popular beliefs, mythical structures, the imaginary of Eastern Slavs. Deepening of linguistic knowledge, enrichment of vocabulary.
- Prerequisites
- In order to understand and address the Slavic Philology course it is necessary to have successfully passed the Russian Language II exam.
- Teaching methods
- Classroom lectures, held by the course professor, on all the topics of the course.Reading and analysis of texts in Slavic, Old Russian and Russian. Russian with translations.
- Other information
- Attendance: at least 75% of lessons.
To be admitted to the examination, students who do not attend classes must arrange in advance an alternative program with the course professor. - Learning verification modality
- Final oral exam. The questions will concern the general themes of history and of ancient Russian literature and of folklore; the texts analyzed in the classroom during the course, the contextualization of the text to be analyzed;
If not passed, the oral examination can not be sustained in the same exam session. - Extended program
- Indo-European origins and dialectal position of the Slavic class; the Cyril-Metodian mission and the paleoslavic; the medieval Slavic peoples;
within the visiting course prof. - Prof. Afanasjeva (St. Petersburg State University) will carry out a cycle of lessons entitled "Ecclesiastical Slavic language and ancient Russian language" . The course will be dedicated to reading ancient Russian and Slavic-ecclesiastical texts, which will be compared in order to highlight the close link between ecclesiastical Slavic and ancient Russian in the writing culture of Rus' of the XI-XVII centuries. During the lessons some texts will be read and commented, in order to allow students to distinguish the ecclesiastical Slavic from ancient Russian to the different levels of the linguistic system (grammar, phonetics and syntax)
The monographic part provides an approach to the knowledge of the Eastern Slavic world through the deepening of the theme of oral traditions