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 2019
- Offered
- 2021/22
- 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,
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
R. Picchio, Tradizione russa e tradizione slava ortodossa, in Storia della civiltà letteraria russa, vol. 1, UTET, Torino 1997, pp. 3-26
N.Riasanovsky, Storia della Russia. Dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Milano, Bompiani Paperback, 1997.
Vl. Propp. Le radici storiche dei racconti di magia. Newton Compton (collana Grandi tascabili economici) ed. 3, 2012 ,
or one of the previous editions.
mandatory reading:
the anticorussian texts "Racconto dei tempi passati"" Il canto della schiera di Igor'"
the folklore texts: the byliny, the fairy tales; the popular songs.
Vita dell'arciprete Avvakum scritta da lui medesimo, Milano 1977, - 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
- .Reading and analysis of texts, in 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;
- Extended program
- Indo-European origins and dialectal position of the Slavic class; the Cyril-Metodian mission and the paleoslavic; the medieval Slavic peoples;
The monographic part provides an approach to the knowledge of the Eastern Slavic world through the deepening of the theme of oral and written, cultural traditions and concerns the specificities of the pagan Slavic-Eastern pantheon, the medieval demonology of Rus' and folk tales.. Apocalyptic symbolism in the seventeenth century schism, with particular attention to the work of the archpriest Avvacum.