Unit RUSSIAN LITERATURE I
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- GP004918
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Andrea Lena Corritore
- Teachers
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- Andrea Lena Corritore
- Hours
- 54 ore - Andrea Lena Corritore
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Letterature straniere
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/21
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- ITALIAN
- Contents
- Russian and Soviet culture of the early twentieth century: from Chekhov to socialist realism.
The course provides a first approach to the study of Russian culture of the early twentieth century.
In particular it will provide an overview of trends, schools, movements and authors that have marked the Russian-Soviet cultural life in the first decades of the twentieth century. - Reference texts
- General bibliography
N. Riasanovsky, Storia della Russia. Dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Milano, Bompiani, 1997 (o altra edizione; alcuni capitoli)
Storia della civiltà letteraria russa, diretta da M. Colucci e R. Picchio, II: Il Novecento, Torino, Utet, 1997 (alcuni capitoli. Testo non acquistabile, si trova nella biblioteca dell’Università)
G. Carpi, Storia della letteratura russa. II. Dalla rivoluzione d’Ottobre a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2016 (alcuni capitoli).
Works
V. Majakovskij, Flauto di vertebre; La nuvola in calzoni.
V. Chlebnikov, Poesie (una scelta).
I. Il’f e E. Petrov, Le dodici sedie.
I. Babel’, L’armata a cavallo.
Ju. Oleša, Invidia.
E. Zamjatin, Noi.
M. Bulgakov, Cuore di cane; Il Maestro e Margherita.
B. Pasternak, Il dottor Živago.
M. Šolochov, Il placido Don.
Photocopies and other teaching materials will be provided during classes. Also in English. - Educational objectives
- The course provides a first approach to the study of Russian culture of the early twentieth century. Its main goal is to make students aware of the specificities of the Russian cultural context of the early twentieth century.
- Prerequisites
- Students must have basic knowledge concerning the European and extra-European history of the twentieth century.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
classroom lectures; reading with commentary and analysis of works; screening of films related to the main topics. - Other information
- Attendance: at least 60% 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 test. Questions covering themes of history and literature. If not passed, the examination can not be attended in the same examination session.
- Extended program
- Russian and Soviet culture of the early twentieth century: from Chekhov to and socialist realism.
The course provides a first approach to the study of Russian culture of the early twentieth century in the particular perspective of the transition from the literary avant-garde to the birth of socialist realism.
The great historical-cultural events that led to the birth of literary and artistic avant-garde in Russia (with particular regard to the October Revolution as a central moment in Russian history) will be explored, an attempt will be made to give an overview of trends, schools and authors who recognized themselves in the avant-garde, deepening some of the their most important expressions in the field of arts and culture ("high" and "low" literature, cinema, theater, folk culture) without, however, neglecting the work of artistic and literary groups, which recognized themselves in the flow of the XIX century tradition. The historical, political and literary process that will culminate with the birth of socialism realism as the only artistic method admitted in the USSR will be illustrated.