!
!
Sl.4:!Russian!Literature!and!Culture!from!the!Golden!Age!to!the!Silver!Age!
!
!
!
Chekhov'and'Tolstoy'in'Crimea'(1901)'
!
'
!
!
!
!
!
!
Course!Adviser:!Dr!Alyson!Tapp!([email protected])!
Handbook!2015C16!
(updated!September!’15)!
Contents!
!
1.!
Introduction……………………………………................................................!3!
2.!
Overview!of!Texts!and!Topics!for!2015C16……………………………………..!3!
3.!
Teaching!&!Assessment…………………………………………………………………!4!
4.!
Preparatory!Reading……………………………………………………………………..!5!
5.!
Reading!Lists…………………………………………………………………………………! 5!
!
Using!the!Reading!Lists………………………………………………………!5!
Section!A:!Set!Texts……………………………………………………………!6!
Section!B:!Prescribed!Authors……………………………………………!10!
Section!C:!Topics………………………………………………………………..!13!
!
2!
Sl.4:!Russian!Literature!and!Culture!from!the!Golden!Age!to!the!Silver!Age!
Course!Adviser:!Dr!Alyson!Tapp!([email protected])!
2015C16!
!
!
Introduction!
The!nineteenth!century!saw!the!rapid!development!of!Russian!literary!culture!–!from!the!
emergence!of!the!modern!Russian!literary!language,!to!the!rise!of!the!great!Russian!novel,!
and,!by!the!end!of!the!century,!the!launch!of!modernism!in!Russia.!!Bold!in!their!formal!and!
aesthetic!innovation,!the!works!of!this!period!pose!the!decisive!questions!of!Russian!
modernity!and!pursue!urgent!issues!of!social,!political!and!theological!import.!!!
!
The!course!is!a!study!of!Russian!literature!from!the!beginning!of!the!nineteenth!century!
through!the!very!early!twentieth!century!and!introduces!students!to!a!range!of!authors,!
genres!and!issues.!!In!order!to!achieve!a!balance!of!depth!and!breadth,!the!paper!is!organized!
around!the!study!of!two!set!texts,!two!prescribed!authors,!and!three!topics.!!(There!are!
suggested!pathways!through!the!texts!and!topics!tailored!to!Part!IB,!option!A!(exCab'initio)!
students,!but!students!should!not!feel!limited!to!these).!
!
!
!
!
Overview!of!Texts!and!Topics!for!2015F16!
!
Set!Texts:!
A1.!Aleksandr!Pushkin,!Evgenii'Onegin!(1825C32)!
A2.!Lev!Tolstoi,!Anna'Karenina!(1873C77)!
'
Prescribed!Authors:!
B1.!Nikolai!Gogol’!
B2.!Anton!Chekhov!
!
Topics:!
C1.!!The!Elegy!(1800sC1830s)!
C2.!!Fiction!and!Ideology!in!the!1860s!
C3.!!The!Drama!in!the!Nineteenth!Century!
!
3!
Teaching!
Weekly!lectures!in!Michaelmas!and!Lent;!weekly!(2hr)!revision!seminars!in!Easter.!!!
Ten!fortnightly!supervisions!throughout!the!year.!!!
!
Lecture!Schedule!
Michaelmas!
!
!
!
!
!
!
Lent!
Wk.!
Lecture! !
!
Supervision!
!
!
Wk.!
Lecture! !
!
Supervision!
1!
elegy! !
!!
!
!
!
!
1!
Anna'Karenina' '
'
2!
elegy! !
!
!!!elegy! !
!
!
2!
Anna'Karenina! !
AK!
!
3!
Evgenii'Onegin! !
!
!
!
!
3!
Anna'Karenina! !
!
4!
Evgenii'Onegin! !
!!EO!
!
!
!
4!
1860s! !
!
AK'
5!
Evgenii'Onegin' '
'
'
'
'
5!
1860s*! !
!
!
6!
Gogol! !
!
!!EO'
'
'
'
6!
Chekhov!!
!
1860s!
7!
Gogol! !
!
!
!
!
!
7!
Chekhov!!
!
!
8!
Gogol/Griboedov!(drama)!!!!Gogol! !
!
!
8!
Drama! !
Chekhov/Drama! !
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
*!an!additional!seminar!will!be!scheduled!on!the
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!1860s!topic.!
!
!
!
!
!
Easter!
Wk.!
Seminar*!(2hrs)! !
Supervision!
1!
EO/elegy!
!
revision!
2!
AK/1860s!
3!
Gogol/Chekhov! !
revision!
4!
drama! !
!
!
!
!
*!ordering!of!revision!sessions!subject!to!change!–!but!all!topics!will!have!one!dedicated!hour!of!review.! !
!
! !
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
Assessment!
Assessment!by!Long!Essay!instead!of!final!examination!is!available!in!this!paper!for!students!in!Part!IB!
(Options!A!&!B).!
!
The!examination!is!structured!as!follows:!!Section!A!will!consist!of!a!commentary!on!one!of!the!set!
texts!and!essay!questions!on!the!other.!!!Section!B!will!offer!several!questions!on!each!of!the!
prescribed!authors,!for!which!candidates!are!required!to!make!reference!to!more!than!one!text.!!
Section!C!will!offer!several!questions!on!each!of!the!prescribed!topics!as!well!as!more!open!questions!
that!might!be!answered!with!reference!to!a!wide!range!of!texts!and!periods.!!All!questions!in!Section!
C!will!require!candidates!to!write!about!at!least!two!texts!of!which!at!least!one!must!be!a!literary!
text.!!
!
All!candidates!must!answer!three!questions.!!!
Students!for!Part!IB!(Options!A!&!B)!answer:!!
1!question!from!Section!A!
any!other!2!questions!(which!may!include!1!further!question!from!Section!A)!
!
Students!for!Part!II!answer:! !
1!question!from!Section!A!!
1!question!from!Section!C!
EITHER!1!further!question!from!Section!C!!!OR!!!1!question!from!Section!B.!
!
4!
Preparatory!Reading!and!General!Background!
Students!are!urged!to!buy!and!read!both!Set!Texts!during!the!summer!(or!Year!Abroad),!as!
well!as,!in!particular,!any!optional!longer!texts!they!wish!to!cover!(e.g.!Mertvye'dushi,'Besy).!!
The!following!reading!list!serves!as!an!introduction!to!the!subject.!!
!
Caryl!Emerson,!The'Cambridge'Introduction'to'Russian'Literature!(esp.!chs!1,!4,!5,!6)!
William!Mills!Todd,!III,!Fiction'and'Society'in'the'Age'of'Pushkin:'Ideology,'Institutions'and'
Narrative'(chs.!1,2,3)!
Malcolm!V.!Jones!and!Robin!Feuer!Miller!(eds.),!The'Cambridge'Companion'to'the'Classic'
Russian'Novel!
Michael!Wachtel,!Cambridge'Introduction'to'Russian'Poetry!(chs!1,2,3,4)!
Andrew!Wachtel!and!Ilya!Vinitsky.!“The!Spirit!of!Poetry:!Russian!Culture!in!the!Age!of!
Alexander!I”!in!Russian'Literature!
Andrzej!Walicki,'A'History'of'Russian'Thought!(esp.!chs!3,!5,!6,!7,!8,!11)!
!
Students!should!read!through!a!scholarly!history!of!19thCcentury!Russia!such!as:!Gregory!
Freeze,!Russia:''A'History!(chs!5,!6,!7,!8)!or!Nicholas!Riasanovsky!and!Mark!Steinberg,!A'
History'of'Russia'(8th!edition;!Chs!24C30)!
!
Reading!Lists!
Using!the!Reading!Lists!
The!lists!below!specify!Primary!and!Secondary!texts,!organised!by!Section!and!Topic.!!The!lists!
are!extensive!but!not!exhaustive:!in!other!words,!you!should!feel!neither!daunted!not!limited!
by!them!!!
!
Sections!B!&!C!(Prescribed!Authors!&!Topics)!
! Remember! that! you! will! be! making! selections' from! among! the! primary! texts! here;! they!
are!not!all!compulsory!reading.!!!
! In!particular,!students!are!reminded!that!the!long!novels!Mertye'dushi'by!Gogol!(B1)!and!
Besy'by!Dostoevsky!(C2)!are!optional,!and!you!should!plan!ahead!if!you!want!to!read!one!or!
both.!!
! Students!should!consult!with!their!supervisor!to!select!primary!texts!from!the!suggested!
options!according!to!their!interests!and!experience!in!Russian.!!Students!may!also!choose!to!
read!relevant!primary!texts!that!are!not!listed!here.!
!
Secondary!Readings!
The!suggestions!for!secondary!reading!represent!a!collection!of!resources!and!menus!of!
possibilities:!no!one!expects!you!to!do!all!of!the!reading!below!!!Your!supervisor!will!help!you!
to!orientate!yourself!within!the!bibliography,!and!to!use!your!time!efficiently,!by!suggesting!
those!texts!which!most!closely!relate!to!the!themes!and!approaches!that!interest!you.!
!
5!
Section!A:!Set!Texts!
!
A1.!!A.!S.!Pushkin,!Evgenii!Onegin!!(1825F32)!
!!!Former!ab!initio!students!(i.e.!those!in!Part!IB,!Option!A)!are!only!required!to!read!
chapters!1,!2,!5!and!8!in!Russian;!they!must!read!the!entire!novel!in!English!in!order!to!follow!
the!plot.!!!
!!!!Recommended!translation:!James!E.!Falen!!
!!!!In!addition,!although!it!does!not!make!for!'smooth!reading',!Nabokov's!literal!translation,!
read!side!by!side!with!the!original,!is!very!helpful:!it!makes!for!an!excellent!primer!in!reading!
Russian!verse,!understanding!the!flexibility!of!word!order!etc…!!
!!!!Students!in!Part!IB,!Option!B!and!Part!II!read!the!entire!novel!in!Russian.!
!
Background,!Biography,!Reference!
Bethea,!David,!ed.!The'Pushkin'Handbook!(University!of!Wisconsin!Press,!2006).!
Binyon,!T.!J.!Pushkin.'A'Biography!(London!2003)!
Kahn,!Andrew,!ed.!Cambridge'Companion'to'Pushkin.!Cambridge:!CUP,!2006.!
!
Commentary!
Lotman,!Iurii.!!Roman'Pushkina'‘Evgenii'Onegin’:'Kommentarii.!!Leningrad,!1983.!!
Nabokov,!Vladimir!(transl.,!introd.!and!extensive!commentary).!!Eugene'Onegin:'A'Novel'in'
Verse'by'Aleksandr'Pushkin,!4!vols.!(London,!1964)!!
!
Other!Secondary!Readings!
(i)!Introductory/student!survey!studies:!
Briggs,!A.!D.!P.!!Aleksandr'Pushkin:'‘Eugene'Onegin.’''Cambridge,!CUP:!1992.!
Clayton,!J.!Douglas.!Ice'and'Flame.'Aleksandr'Pushkin’s'‘Eugene'Onegin’!(Toronto!1985)!
DaltonCBrown,!S.!Puskhin’s'Evgenii'Onegin.!!Bristol:!Bristol!Classical!Press,!1997.!
Levitt,!Marcus.!!“Evgenii!Onegin”!in!Kahn,!Andrew,!ed.!Cambridge'Companion'to'Pushkin.!
Cambridge:!CUP,!2006.!
!
(ii)!Seminal!Russian!scholarship:!
Hoisington,!Sona,!ed.!!Russian'Views'of'Pushkin’s'Eugene'Onegin.!Bloomington:!Indiana!
University!Press,!1988.!
Lotman!(see!‘Commentary’!above)!
Shklovskii,!Viktor.!“Eugene!Onegin!(Pushkin!and!Sterne)!Translated!from!the!Russian!by!Emily!
Finer.”!Comparative'Critical'Studies!1,!no.!1–2!(June!1,!2004):!171–193.!!
Ginzburg,!Lidiia,!‘К!постановке!проблемы!реализма!в!пушкинской!литературе,’!Vremennik'
pushkinskoi'komissii!(AN!SSSR,!1936),!387C401.!
!
(iii)!Seminal/extensive!studies!in!western!scholarship:!
Emerson,!Caryl.!!“Tatiana,”!in!A'Plot'of'Her'Own.'Female'Protagonist'in'Russian'Literature,!ed.!
Sonia!Hoisington.!!Evanston,!IL:!Northwestern!UP,!1995.!6C20.!
Greenleaf,!Monika.!Pushkin'and'Romantic'Fashion:'Fragment,'Elegy,'Orient,'Irony.!!Stanford:!
Stanford!UP,!1997.!esp.!205C286.!
Hasty,!Olga!Peters.!!Pushkin’s'Tatiana.!!Madison:!University!of!Wisconsin!Press,!1999.!
!
6!
!
!
!
!
Todd,!William!Mills!III,!'Eugene!Onegin:!“Life’s!Novel”,!in!Literature'and'Society'in'the'Age'of'
Pushkin,!ed.!by!William!Mills!Todd!III.!!Cambridge,!MA:!Harvard!UP,!1986.!
!
(iv)!Articles!with!useful,!specific!focus:!!
Cravens,!C.!“Lyric!and!Narrative!Consciousness!in!‘Eugene!Onegin’.”!Slavic'and'East'European'
Journal!46,!no.!4!(2002):!683–709.!
Dvigubski,!Anna.!“‘And!What!of!My!Onegin?’!Displacement!and!Reinvention!of!the!Hero!in!
Eugene!Onegin.”!The'Russian'Review!72,!no.!1!(2013):!1–23.!
Gelder,!Ann.!‘Wandering!in!Exile:!!Byron!and!Pushkin,’!Comparative'Literature'!42:4!(Autum,!
1990),!319C334.!
Greg,!Richard.!‘Stanza!and!Plot!in!Evgenii'Onegin:!!A!Symbiosis?’!Slavonic'and'East'European'
Review'!72:4!(October!1994),!609C621.!
Hoisington,!Sona!Stephan.!“‘Eugene!Onegin’:!An!Inverted!Byronic!Poem.”!Comparative'
Literature!27!(1975):!136.!
CCCCC.!“Parody!in!Evgenii!Onegin:!Lenskii’s!Lament.”!Canadian'Slavonic'Papers/Revue'
Canadienne'Des'Slavistes:'An'Interdisciplinary'Journal'Devoted'to'Central'and'Eastern'
Europe!29,!no.!2–3!(June!1,!1987):!266–278.!
Ketchian,!S.!I.!“‘What’s!Hidden!in!My!Name?’:!Names!as!a!Window!into!Pushkin’s!‘Evgenij!
Onegin’.”!Russian'Literature!60,!no.!2!(August!2006):!159–183.!!
LesicCThomas,!Andrea.!“Focalization!in!Pushkin’s!Eugene!Onegin!and!Lermontov’s!A!Hero!of!
Our!Time:!Loving!the!Semantic!Void!and!the!Dizziness!of!Interpretation.”!The'Modern'
Language'Review!103,!no.!4!(October!1,!2008).!
Reid,!Robert!and!Joe!Andrew,!eds.,!Two'Hundred'Years'of'Pushkin,!Vols!II!and!III!(Rodopi,!
2004).!!Recommended!articles!in!Vol!II:!!Bethea,!Palmer;!in!Vol!III:!!Freeborn,!Weststeijn,!
Clayton,!De!Haard,!Livingstone.!
Reyfman,!Irina.!'Ritualized'Violence'Russian'Style:'The'Duel'in'Russian'Culture'and'Literature.''
Stanford:'Stanford!UP,!1999.!!
Semenko,!I.!M.,!and!Sona!Hoisington.!“The!‘Author’!in!Eugene!Onegin:!Image!and!Function.”!
CanadianXAmerican'Slavic'Studies!29,!no.!3–4!(January!1,!1995):!233–255.!!
Wachtel,!Michael,!‘The!Onegin!stanza:!from!poetic!digression!to!poetic!nostalgia’,!in!The'
Development'of'Russian'Verse:'Meter'and'its'Meanings'(Cambridge:!!CUP,!2006)!!
~~~~~~~~~!
A2:!L.!N.!Tolstoi,!Anna!Karenina!(1873F77)!
!!!!Former!ab!initio!students!(i.e.!those!in!Part!IB,!Option!A)!read!at!least!the!extracts!
specified!below!in!Russian!(roughly!one!third!of!the!novel);!they!read!the!entire!novel!in!
English!in!order!to!follow!the!plot:!!Part!I:!1C4,!7C11,!13,!16C23,!26C34;!!Part!2:!7C12,!21C29;!!!!
Part!3:!1C5,!13C16,!!22C!25,!31C32!;!!Part!4:!!!1,!3C5,!!9C13,!15C23;!!Part!6:!3,!7C16,!!19C20,!31C33;!!
Part!7:!9C16,!23C31;!!Part!8:!8C19.!!!
!!!!Recommended!translations:!!either!Rosemary!Edmonds!OR!Richard!Pevear!and!Larissa!
Volokhonsky.!
!!!!Students!in!Part!IB,!Option!B!and!Part!II!read!the!entire!novel!in!Russian.!
!
!
7!
!
!
!
Background,!Biography,!Reference!!
Bartlett,!Rosamund.!!Tolstoy:''A'Russian'Life!(Profile!Press,!2011).!![Biography]!
Eikhenbaum,!Boris.!!Tolstoi'v'semidesiatykh'godakh.''In!English:!!Tolstoi'in'the'Seventies.!
trans.!Albert!Kaspin.!Ardis,!Ann!Arbor.!!(Masterful!blend!of!biographical,!philological!and!
textual!analysis!by!leading!'formalist'!critic.)!
Freeze,!Gregory.!“Reform!and!Counterreform,!1855C1890”!in!Russia:'A'History,!ed.!Gregory!
Freeze!(New!York:!Oxford!University!Press,!1997),!pp.!170C199.!!Historical!context.!
Knapp,!Liza!and!Amy!Mandelker,!eds.!!Approaches'to'Teaching'Tolstoy’s'Anna'Karenina!(MLA:!!
2003).!!Excellent,!very!useful!anthology!of!short!critical!texts.!
Relevant!Theoretical!Works!(not!dealing!with!AK!explicitly):!
Bakhtin,!Mikhail.!'Forms!of!Time!and!of!the!Chronotope!in!the!Novel:!Notes!toward!a!
Historical!Poetics,'!in!his!Dialogic'Imagination:'Four'Essays,!ed.!Michael!Holquist!
(University!of!Texas!Press,!1982),!pp.!84C85,!224C258.!
Brooks,!Peter.!!Reading'for'the'Plot:''Design'and'Intention'in'Narrative!!(Harvard!UP,!1992).!3C
61.!
Tanner,!Tony.!!Adultery'in'the'Novel:''Contract'and'Transgression.!!Johns!Hopkins!UP,!1981.!'
Auerbach,!Eric.!'Odysess's!Scar,'!in!!Mimesis:'The'Representation'of'Reality'in'Western'
Literature.!!Trans.!Willard!R.!Task.!!Princeton:!Princeton!UP,!2003.!!2C23.!
Jakobson,!Roman.!!'On!Realism!in!Art,’!in!Readings'in'Russian'Poetics:'Formalist'and'
Structuralist'Views.!Eds.!Ladislav!Matejka!and!Krystyna!Pomorska.!Cambridge,!MA:!The!
MIT!Press,!1971.!38C46!
!!for!wrestling!with!'Realism':!see!also!entries!for!Gustafson,!Kliger!and!Kovarsky!below.!
Works!which!promote!something!approaching!a!“comprehensive”!reading!of!the!novel,!
through!extensive!engagement!with!the!text!and/or!by!dint!of!interpretative!approach:!
Alexandrov,!Vladimir.!!Limits'to'Interpretation.'The'Meanings'of'Anna'Karenina.!Madison:!
Wisconsin!UP:!2004.!
Gustafson,!Richard,!'The!Poetics!of!Emblematic!Realism'!in!Leo'Tolstoy:'Resident'and'Stranger:'
A'Study'in'Fiction'and'Theology.!Princeton!UP,!1986.!202C213.!
Kliger,!Ilya.!'Tolstoy's!Plotlines!and!Truth!Shapes',!in!his!The'Narrative'Shape'of'Truth:''
Veridiction'in'Modern'European'Literature.!Penn!State!UP,!2011.!!145C176.!
Mandelker,!Amy.!!Framing'Anna'Karenina:'Tolstoy,'the'Woman'Question,'and'the'Victorian'
Novel.!Columbus:!Ohio!State!UP,!1993.!
Morson,!Gary!Saul.!!Anna'Karenina'in'Our'Time.!New!Haven:!Yale!UP,!2007.!
Morson,!Gary!Saul.!'Anna!Karenina’s!Omens,''in!Freedom'and'Responsibility'in'Russian''
Literature,!ed.!E.C.!Allen!and!G.S.!Morson.!!Evanston:!Northwestern!UP,!1995.!134C152.!
!
On!the!epigraph:!
Eikhenbaum,!Boris.!!Tolstoi'in'the'Seventies.!Trans.!Albert!Kaspin.!Ardis,!Ann!Arbor,!1982.!
Holland,!Kate.!‘The!Opening!of!Anna'Karewnina’!in!in!Knapp,!Liza!and!Amy!Mandelker,!eds.!!
Approaches'to'Teaching'Tolstoy’s'Anna'Karenina!(MLA:!!2003).!144C149.!!!
Morson.!Gary!Saul.!'Tolstoy's!Absolute!Language,'!Critical'Inquiry!7:4!(Summer!1981),!667C
687.!
!
!
8!
Other!Secondary!Readings:!use!the!titles!to!navigate!issues!that!interest!you,!or!consult!your!
supervisor!for!recommendations.!!
!!!a!number!of!articles!appear!in!editions!of!the!Tolstoy!Studies!Journal!(abbreviated!below:!
TSJ)!![in!UL:!North!Front,!Fl!5,!P576.b.29!]!
!
Alexandrov,!Vladimir.!“Relative!Time!in!Anna!Karenina,”!Russian'Review'41!:2!(April!1982):!
159C68.!
Bendiksen,!Anna!Primrose.!!'The!Swishing!of!the!Scythes:!The!Mowing!Scene!in!Anna'
Karenina,'!Russian'Literature!40:4!(November!1996),!517C523.!
Bloom,!Harold!(ed.),!Leo'Tolstoy’s'‘Anna'Karenina.’!New!York,!1987.!
de!Sherbinin,!Julie.!!'The!Dismantling!of!Hierarchy!and!the!Defense!of!Social!Class!in!Anna'
Karenina,’!Russian'Review!70:4!(October!2011):!646C662.!
Emerson,!Caryl.!‘Prosaics!in!Anna'Karenina:!Pro!and!Con,’!TSJ'VIII:!150C76.!
Evdokimova,!Svetlana.!!'The!Drawing!and!the!Grease!Spot:!!Creativity!and!Interpretation!in!
Anna'Karenina,'!TSJ'VIII:!33C45!
Goscilo,!Helena.!!'Tolstoyan!Fare:!!Credo!a!la!Carte,'!Slavonic'and'East'European'Review!62:4!
(October!1984),!481C495.!![Jstor]!
Herman,!David.!!'Allowable!Passions!in!Anna'Karenina,'!TSJ!VIII:!5C32.!
Jahn,!Gary.!!‘The!Image!of!the!Railroad!in!Anna'Karenina,’!Slavic'and'East'European'Journal'
25:!2!(1981):!1C10.!!
Knapp,!Liza.!!'The!Estates!of!Pokrovskoe!and!Vozdvizhenskoe:!!Tolstoy’s!Labyrinth!of!Linkings!
in!Anna'Karenina,’!TSJ!VIII:!81C98.!
Knapp,!Liza.!'“TueCla!!TueCle!:!!Death!Sentences,!Words,!and!Inner!Monologue!n!
Tolstoy’s!Anna'Karenina'and!Three'More'Deaths.’!!TSJ'!XI:!1C19.!
Kovarsky,!Gina.!!'Mimesis!and!Moral!Education!in!Anna'Karenina,'!TSJ!VIII:!61C80!
Kujundzic,!Dragan,!‘Pardoning!Woman!in!Anna'Karenina’,!TSJ'!VI:!65C86.!!
Lonnqvist,!Barbara.!“Anna!Karenina,”!in!The'Cambridge'Companion'to'Tolstoy.!Ed.!Donna!
Tussing!Orwin.!Cambridge:!CUP,!2002.!80C95.!
Meyer,!Priscilla.!!‘”Anna!Karenina,”!Rousseau,!and!the!Gospels,’!Russian'Review!66:2!(April!
2007),!!204C219.!!!
Meyer,!Priscilla.!‘Anna'Karenina:!!Tolstoy’s!Polemic!with!Madame'Bovary,’!Russian'Review!
54:2!(April!1995),!243C259.!
Meyer,!Priscilla.!‘Tolstoy,!Anna'Karenina,’!in!her!How'the'Russians'Read'the'French.!Madison:!
Univ!of!Wisconsin!Press,!2008.!152C209.!
Morson,!Gary!Saul.!'Poetic!Justice,!False!Listening,!and!Falling!in!Love,!Or,!Why!Anna!Refuses!a!
Divorce,'!TSJ!VIII:!177C197.!
Morson,!Gary!Saul.!'What!is!Agriculture?'![in!Tolstoy],!Russian'Literature!40!(1996)!481C490.!
Morson,!Gary!Saul!'Work!and!the!Authentic!Life!in!Tolstoy,'!TSJ!!IX:!36C48.!!
Orwin.!Donna!Tussing.!Tolstoy’s'Art'and'Thought,'1847X1880.!Princeton!UP,!1993.!
Paperno,!Irina.!“Who,'What'am'I?”'Tolstoy'Struggles'to'Narrate'the'Self.!Ithaca:!Cornell!UP,!
2014.!
Schultze,!Sydney.!The'Structure'of'Anna'Karenina!(Ann!Arbor:!Ardis,!1982)!
Seifrid,!Thomas.!!'Gazing!on!Life's!Page:!Perspectival!Vision!in!Tolstoy,'!PMLA!113:3!(May!
1998),!436C448.!
Tapp,!Alyson.!‘Moving!Stories:!(E)motion!and!Narrative!in!Anna'Karenina,’!Russian'Literature!
61:3!(2007),!341C361.!!
!
9!
Turner,!C.J.G.!'Psychology,!Rhetoric!and!Morality!in!Anna'Karenina,''SEEJ!39:!2!(1995):!261C
268![Jstor]!
Weir,!Justin.!'Anna!Incommunicada:!Language!and!Consciousness!in!Anna''Karenina,'!!TSJ'VIII:!
99C111!.!
Whitcomb,!Curt.!‘Resisting!the!Effortless!in!Anna'Karenina,’!TSJ'VII:!32C43!!
Whitcomb,!Curt.!!'Treacherous!«Charm»!in!Anna'Karenina,'!!Slavic'and'East'European'Journal!!
39:2!(Summer!1995),!214C226!![Jstor]!
!
!
"""!
!
!
Section!B:!Prescribed!Authors:!Gogol’!and!Chekhov!
!
B1.!!Nikolai!Gogol’!(Michaelmas)!
!!!!Part!IB,!Option!A!students!should!select,!as!a!minimum,!2!short!stories!to!read.!
!!!Part!IB,!Option!B!&!Part!II!students!should!read,!as!a!minimum,!3!works!(from!among!the!
short!stories,!with!the!option!of!Revizor!also)'OR!they!may!choose!to!focus!on!Gogol's!novel,!
Mertvye'dushi!and!at!least!1!other!shorter!work.!!!
!
!
!
from!Vechera'na'khutore'bliz'Dikan’ki,!Part!One!(1831)!
'
Chast’!pervaia:!‘Predislovie’!!
‘Sorochinskaia!iarmarka’!
from!Mirgorod,!Part!Two!(1835)!
'
‘Vii’!!
‘Povest’!o!tom,!kak!possorilis’!Ivan!Ivanovich!s!Ivanom!Nikiforovichem’!
Petersburg!Tales!
!
‘Nevskii!Prospekt’!!
‘Portret’!!
‘Zapiski!sumasshedshego’!!
‘Nos’' !
Revizor!(for!Drama!topic!also)!
Mertvye'dushi'(Part!One;!Part!Two!may!also!be!read)!
Secondary!readings!
Bely,!Andrei.!!Gogol’s'Artistry![Masterstvo'Gogolia],!trans.!Christopher!Colbath.!Evanston:!
Northwestern!UP,!2009.!
Cornwell,!Neil.!‘Antecedents!to!the!Absurd’!in!The'Absurd'in'Literature.!Manchester:!
Manchester!UP,!2006.!!33C65.!
Fanger,!Donald.!!The'Creation'of'Nikolai'Gogol.!Cambridge,!MA:!Belknap!Press,!1979.!
Franklin,!Simon.!!‘Novels!without!End:!Notes!on!"Eugene!Onegin"!and!"Dead!Souls."’!
The'Modern'Language'Review,!Vol.!79,!No.!2!(Apr.,!1984),!pp.!372C383!
Frazier,!Melissa.!!Frames'of'the'Imagination:'Gogol’s'Arabesques'and'the'Romantic'Question'
of'Genre.!New!York:!Peter!Lang,!2000.!
!
10!
!
!
!
Fusso,!Suzanne.!!Designing'Dead'Souls:'An'Anatomy'of'Disorder'in'Gogol.!Stanford:!Stanford!
UP,!1993.!
Fusso,!Susanne!and!Priscilla!Meyer!(eds.)!!Essays'on'Gogol:'Logos'and'the'Russian'Word.!
Evanston:!Northwestern!European!Press,!1992.!
Gippius,!V.V.!!Gogol!(1924)!Ed.!and!trans.!Robert!Maguire.!!Ann!Arbor:!Ardis,!1981.!
Graffy,!Julian.!!‘The!Devil!is!in!the!Detail:!Demonic!Features!of!Gogol’s!Petersburg’!in!Russian'
Literature'and'its'Demons.!!Ed.!Pamela!Davidson.!!New!York!&!Oxford:!Berghahn!Books,!
2000.!
Grayson,!Jane!and!Faith!Wizgell!(eds.).!Nikolai'Gogol:'Text'and'Context.!!New!York:!St!Martin’s!
Press,!1989.!
Griffiths,!Frederick!T.!and!Stanley!Rabinowitz.!!Epic'and'the'Russian'Novel'from'Gogol'to'
Pasternak.!Boston:!Academic!Studies!Press,!2011.!
Karlinsky,!Simon.!!The'Sexual'Labyrinth'of'Nikolai'Gogol.!Chicago:!Univ!of!Chicago!Press,!1976.!
Lotman,!Iurii.!‘Problema!khudozhestvennogo!prostranstva!v!proze!Gogolia’!(1968)!
http://philologos.narod.ru/lotman/gogolspace.htm!
Lotman,!Iurii.!!‘Concerning!Khlestakov’!in!The'Semiotics'of'Russian'Cultural'History.!Ithaca:!
Cornell!UP,!1995.!150C87.!
Maguire,!Robert.!!Exploring'Gogol.!Stanford:!Stanford!UP,!1994.!
Maguire,!Robert!(ed.)!Gogol'from'the'Twentieth'Century.!Princeton:!Princeton!UP,!1974.!
Nabokov,!Vladimir.!Nikolai'Gogol.!![various!editions]!
De!Oliviera,!Cassio.!‘Skuka!and!the!Absurd!in!Gogol’s!Tale!of!the!“Two!Ivans”’.!!
CanadianSlavonic'Papers,!Vol.!51!NO.2/3!(2009),!287C303.!![JSTOR]!
Peace,!Richard.!!The'Enigma'of'Gogol.!Cambridge:!CUP,!1981.!
Popkin,!Cathy.!!The'Pragmatics'of'Insignificance:'Chekhov,'Zoshchenko,'Gogol.!Stanford:!
Stanford!UP,!1993.!
Spieker,!Sven.!!Gogol:'Exploring'Absence:'Negativity'in'NineteenthXcentury'Russian'literature.!
Bloomington:!Slavica,!1999.!
Todd,!William!Mills.!‘Dead'Souls:!Charmed'by'a'Phrase’!in!Literature'and'Society'in'the'Age'of'
Pushkin.!Cambridge,!Mass.,!1986.!164C200.!
links!to!critical!works!on!Gogol!in!Russian:!
http://febFweb.ru/feb/gogol/default.asp?/feb/gogol/critics/FgoFcrl1.htm!
Collections!of!essays!on!Gogol!can!be!found!in!the!journal!editions!Essays'in'Poetics,!(2003!&!
2004),!Vols.!28!&!29.!
!
!
!
!
~~~~~~~~~!
11!
!
!
B2.!!Anton!Chekhov!(Lent)!
The!stories!marked!*!are!suggested!for!the!attention!of!Part!IB,!Option!A!students.!
Early!stories:!!
*‘Smert’!chinovnika’!!
*‘Meliuzga’!!
*‘Eger’’!!
*‘Aniuta’!!
‘Neschast’e’!!
Novella:!‘Step’’!
Later!stories:!! ‘Skuchnoe!istoriia’!! !
‘Palata!nomer!6’!!
‘Chernyi!monakh’!! !
‘Student’!!
‘Dom!s!mezzaninom’!!!
‘Chelovek!v!futliare’!!
‘Kryzhovnik’!! !
!
‘O!liubvi’!!
*‘Dama!s!sobachkoi’!
Theatre:!!
Chaika''
'
'
'
Vishnev’yi'sad'(plays!for!Drama!topic!also)!
'
Secondary!Reading!(General)!
Gottlieb,!Vera,!and!Paul!Allain.!The'Cambridge'Companion'to'Chekhov.!Cambridge:!Cambridge!
University!Press.!2000.!!!Ch.1C3!for!background.!
Karlinsky,!Simon.!!“Introduction:!The!Gentle!Subversive”!in!Letters'of'Anton'Chekhov.!New!
York:!Harper!&!Row,!1973.!1C32.!![Reprinted!in!Wellek,!René!and!Nonna!D.!Wellek.!
Chekhov,'New'Perspectives.!Englewood!Cliffs,!N.J.:!PrenticeCHall,!1984.!31C68.!
Loehlin,!James!N.!!The'Cambridge'Introduction'to'Chekhov.!Cambridge:!CUP,!2010.!
'
Secondary!Readings!on!Prose!
Chudakov,!A.!P.!Chekhov’s'Poetics.!!Trans.!Jannie!Cruise!and!Donald!Dragt.!!Ann!Arbor,!1983.!
Eikhenbaum,!Boris.!!“Chekhov!at!Large”!in!Jackson!(ed.)!Chekhov:'A'Critical'Essays!(Englewood!
Cliffs,!N.J.:!Prentice!Hall,!1967),!21C31.!!
Finke,!Michael.!!‘Of!Interpretation!and!Stolen!Kisses:!From!Poetics!to!Metapoetics!in!
Chekhov’s!“The!Kiss”!in!Apollonio!and!Brintlinger!(eds.).!Chekhov'for'the'21st'Century.!!
(Bloomington:!Indiana,!2012),!127C47.!
Finke,!Michael.!!‘Chekhov’s!“The!Steppe”:!A!Metapoetic!Journey’!in!Metapoesis:'The'Russian'
Tradition'from'Pushkin'to'Chekhov''(Durham!&!London:!Duke!UP,!1995),!134C66.!!
Hagan,!John.!!"Chekhov's!Fiction!and!the!Ideal!of!!'Objectivity',!PMLA!81:!409C417!
Jackson,!Robert!Louis.!!“Introduction”!in!Reading'Chekhov's'Text,!ed.!Robert!Louis!Jackson,!
Northwestern!UP,!1993.!![+!see!other!essays!in!this!volume.]!
Popkin,!Cathy.!!The'Pragmatics'of'Insignificance:'Chekhov,'Zoshchenko,'Gogol.!Stanford:!
Stanford!UP,!1993.!
!
Secondary!Readings!on!Drama:!
(See!also!Drama!topic!in!Section!C)!
Borny,!Geoffrey.!!Interpreting'Chekhov.!Canberra:!ANU!E!Press,!2006.!
Magarshack,!David.!!Chekhov'the'Dramatist.!New!York:!Hill!&!Wang,!1960.!
!
12!
!
Muza,!Anna.!!‘The'Marriage'of'Figaro,'the!Marriage!of!Lopakhin:!The!Hero’s!Revolt’!in!
Apollonio!and!Brintlinger!(eds.).!Chekhov'for'the'21st'Century.!!(Bloomington:!Indiana,!
2012),!167C79.!
Peace,!Richard!Arthur.!Chekhov:'A'Study'of'the'Four'Major'Plays.!New!Haven ;London:!Yale!
University!Press,!1983.!
Pitcher,!Harvey.!!“The!Chekhov!Play”!in!Wellek,!Chekhov,'New'Perspectives,!69C106.!
Rayfield,!Donald.!Understanding'Chekhov:'A'Critical'Study'of'Chekhov’s'Prose'and'Drama.!
Russian!Studies.!Bristol:!Bristol!Classical!Press,!1999.!
Senelick,!Laurence.!The'Chekhov'Theatre:'A'Century'of'the'Plays'in'Performance.!Cambridge:!
CUP,!1997.!
Wellek,!René!and!Nonna!D.!Wellek.!Chekhov,'New'Perspectives.!!Englewood!Cliffs,!N.J.:!
PrenticeCHall,!1984.!
!
!
!
!
"""!
Section!C:!Topics!
C1:!The!Elegy!(Michaelmas)!
Selected!poetry!by!Zhukovskii,!Batiushkov,!Pushkin,!Baratynskii,!Lermontov.!!
!
!!!The!poems!marked!*!are!suggested!for!the!attetion!of!Part!IB,!Option!A!students.!
!!!The!poems!are!listed!by!poet,!and!then!by—loose—subCcategories!of!the!genre.!!In!many!
instances!the!designation!is!not!clearCcut,!and!is!as!much!a!point!for!discussion!as!clear!
categorization.!!If!you!decide!that!you!want!to!make!an!excursion!into!‘historical’!or!‘exilic’!
elegy,!say,!then!these!categories!will!guide!you.!
!!!In!all!cases,!students!should!read!elegies!from!more!than!one!category.!
!
V.A.!Zhukovskii!
*‘Sel’skoe!kladbishche,’!*‘Na!smert’!Andreia!Turgeneva,’!‘K!K.!M.!Sokovninoi,’!!
‘Vecher!(elegiia)’!
K.N.!Batiushkov!
*‘Vyzdorovlenie,’!‘Ten’!druga,’!‘Na!razvalinakh!zamka!v!Shvetsii,’!*‘Moi!genii,’!
!‘Perekhod!cherez!Rein’!
A.S.!Pushkin!
*‘Probuzhdenie,’!‘Naezdniki,’!*‘Pogaslo!dnevnoe!svetilo,’!!
*‘Ia!perezhil!svoi!zhelan’ia,’!‘Umolknu!skoro!ia!...,’!!
‘Prostish’!li!mne!revnivye!mechty,’!*‘K!moriu,’!*‘Vospominanie,’!!
‘Brozhu!li!ia!vdol’!ulits!shumnykh’!
E.A.!Baratynskii!!*(Option'A:'pick'any'one'poem)!
!
‘Razluka’!(“Rasstalis’!my;!na!mig!ocharovanie”),!‘Razuveren’e,’!‘Priznanie’!!
M.!Iu.!Lermontov!
*‘Gliazhu!na!budushchnost’!s!boiazn’iu’!!(Option'A:'OR'‘Duma’),!*‘Duma,’!‘Son,’!!
*‘I!skuchno!i!grustno’!
!
!
13!
‘Foundational’'elegy'for'19th'C'Russian'tradition:!‘Sel’skoe!kladbishche’!(1802)!
Gloomy'elegy:!Zhukovskii,!‘Vecher!(elegiia)’!
Love'poem/Erotic'elegy:!Batiushkov,!‘Vyzdorovlenie’,!‘Moi!genii’;!Baratynskii,!‘Razluka’!(1820),!
‘Priznanie’!(1824/35);!Pushkin,!‘Probuzhdenie’,!‘Naezdniki’,!‘Umolknu!skoro!ia!...,!’‘Prostish’!li!
mne!revnivye!mechty’;!Lermontov,!‘Son’!!
Funereal'elegy:!Zhukovskii,!‘Na!smert’!Andreia!Turgeneva’;!‘K!K.!M.!Sokovninoi’;!Batiushkov,!
‘Ten’!druga’!
Historical'elegy:!Batiushkov,!‘Na!razvalinakh!zamka!v!Shvetsii’,!‘Perekhod!cherez!Rein’!
Byronic'elegy:!Pushkin,!‘Ia!perezhil!svoi!zhelan’ia’;!Lermontov,!‘I!skuchno!i!grustno’!
Contemplative/meditative'elegy:!Pushkin,!‘Pogaslo!dnevnoe!svetilo’,!‘Vospominanie’,!‘Brozhu!
li!ia!vdol’!ulits!shumnykh’;!Lermontov,!‘Gliazhu!na!budushchnost’!s!boiazn’iu’,!‘Duma’.!
Exilic'elegy:!Pushkin,!*‘K!moriu’!
!
Secondary!Readings!
!
Theoretical!Reading!
Sacks,!Peter!M.!The'English'Elegy:'Studies'in'the'Genre'from'Spenser'to'Yeats.!Baltimore:!
Johns!Hopkins!University!Press,!1985.!‘Introduction’,!pp.!1C37.!
!
!
!
On!versification!
Wachtel,!Michael.!The'Cambridge'Introduction'to'Russian'Poetry!(CUP:!2004)!
(Chapters!1C3!are!about!reading!a!poem;!!Chapter!1!gives!a!good!overview!of!
versification;!!
*See!also:!Ch4!‘From!the!Ode!to!the!Elegy’!
For!more!detail!on!poetic!meter!see:!
Wachtel,!Michael.!!The'Development'of'Russian'Verse:'Meter'and'its'Meanings'(CUP:!1998.!
!
On!poetry!and!elegy!
Frizman,!L.!G.!Zhizn'liricheskogo'zhanra:'russkaia'elegiia'ot'Sumerokova'do'Nekrasova.!
Moscow:!Nauka,!1973.!
Ginzburg,!L.!Ia.!O'lirike.!2nd!edition.!Moscow:!Sovetskii!pisatel’,!1974.!
!
Golburt,!Luba.!“Derzhavin’s!Ruins!and!the!Birth!of!Historical!Elegy.”!Slavic'Review!65,!no.!
4!(winter!2006):!670C693.!!(though!Derzhavin!is!not!one!of!our!main!poets!C!still!useful)!
Todd,!III,!William!Mills.!“A!Russian!Ideology”!and!“Institutions!of!Literature”!in!Fiction'and'
Society'in'the'Age'of'Pushkin,!pp!10C44!&!45C105.!
Tosi,!Alessandra.!“Fiction!in!Alexander’s!Russia:!the!Social!and!Cultural!Context”!in!Waiting'for'
Pushkin:'Russian'Fiction'in'the'Reign'of'Alexander'I'(1801X1825),!pp!19C62!
Wachtel,!Andrew!and!Ilya!Vinitsky.!“The!Spirit!of!Poetry:!Russian!Culture!in!the!Age!of!
Alexander!I”!in!Russian'Literature.!Cambridge:!Polity,!2009.!57C88.!
Vatsuro,!V.E.!Lirika'Pushkinskoi'pory:'elegicheskaia'shkola.!!St!Petersburg:!Nauka,!1994.!
Works!on!individual!poets!
For!a!quick,!wellCwritten!overview!of!each!poet,!in!terms!of!both!poetry!and!biography,!see!
Encyclopedia'of'the'Romantic'Era,'1760X1850!(ed.!Christopher!John!Murray).!Includes!entries!
on!Batiushkov,!Baratnyskii,!Zhukovskii,!Pushkin,!Lermontov,!Tiutchev.!Neil!Cornwell’s!
!
14!
Reference'Guide'to'Russian'Literature!is!similarly!useful!and!includes!entries!on!all!the!poets!
in!the!topic.!
!
Zhukovskii!
Ciepiela,!Catherine.!“Reading!Russian!Pastoral:!Zhukovsky’s!Translation!of!Gray’s!Elegy.”!In!
Rereading'Russian'Poetry.!New!Haven:!Yale!University!Press,!1999.!
Semenko,!I.!M.!Vasily'Zhukovsky.!Boston,!Twayne,!1976.!
Eikhenbaum,!B.!M.!“Zhukovskii”!in!Melodika:'russkogo'liricheskogo'stikha,!pp!27C71!
Vinitisky,!Ilya.!!Vasily'Zhukovsky’s'Romanticism'and'the'Emotional'History'of'Russia.'Evanston:!
Northwestern!UP!(2015)!![new!title!–!on!order!in!library]!
!
Batiushkov!
Serman,!I.!Z.!!Konstantin'Batyushkov.!New!York:!Twayne,!1974.!(an!English!language!
biography)!
Monika!Greenleaf,!“Found!in!Translation:!the!Subject!of!Batiushkov’s!Poetry”!in!Russian'
Subjects:'Empire,'Nation,'and'the'Culture'of'the'Golden'Age!(ed.!Greenleaf!and!MoellerC
Sally),!pp!51C80!
N.!V.!Fridman,!“Khudozhestvennyi!metod!i!stil’!BatiushkovaCpoeta”!in!Poeziia'Batiushkova!
(Moscow:!Nauka,!1971),!pp!253C314!
!
Baratynskii!
Brown,!William!Edward.!!A'History'of'Russian'Literature'of'the'Romantic'Period.!!Ann!Arbor,!
MI:!Ardis,!1986.!
Dees,!Jospeh!Benjamin.!!E.'A.'Baratynsky.!New!York:!Twayne,!1972.!
Sarah!Pratt,!!Russian'Metaphysical'Romanticism:'the'Poetry'of'Tiutchev'and'Boratynskii.!
Stanford:!Stanford!UP,!1984.!
!
Pushkin!
T.!J.!Binyon,!Pushkin:'A'Biography.!New!York:!Alfred!A.!Knopf,!2003.!!
Bethea,!David!and!Davydov,!Sergei.!!“Pushkin’s!Biography”!in!The'Pushkin'Handbook.!Еd.!
David!Bethea.!!Madison:!Univ!of!Wisconsin!Press,!2005.!3C24.!
Eikhenbaum,!Boris.!“Pushkin,!Tiutchev,!Lermontov”!in!Melodika:'russkogo'liricheskogo'stikha,!
pp!72C118!
Gasparov,!Boris.!“Pushkin!and!Romanticism”!in!The'Pushkin'Handbook'(ed.!Bethea),!pp!537C
567!
Greenleaf,!Monika.!Pushkin'and'Romantic'Fashion:'Fragment,'Elegy,'Orient,'Irony.''Stanford,!
Calif.:!Stanford!University!Press,!1994.!!56C107.!
Kahn,!Andrew.!!“Pushkin’s!Lyric!Identities”!in!The'Cambridge'Companion'to'Pushkin'(ed.!
Kahn),!pp!26C40.!!
CCCCC.!Pushkin’s'Lyric'Intelligence!(Oxford:!OUP!2008).![for!consultation!on!individual!poems.]!
Ram,!Harsha.!The'Imperial'Sublime:'A'Russian'Poetics'of'Empire.!Madison:!University!of!
Wisconsin!Press,!2003.!Esp.!176C86!and!198C211.!
Sandler,!Stephanie.!“Baratynskii,!Pushkin,!and!Hamlet:!On!Mourning!and!Poetry”,!Russian'
Review,!Vol.!42,!No.!1!(Jan.,!1983),!pp.!73C90.!
CCCCC.!Distant'Pleasures:'Alexander'Pushkin'and'the'Writing'of'Exile.!Stanford:!Stanford!UP,!
1989.!!57C76.!![on!‘K!moriu’]!!
!
15!
!
Wachtel,!Michael.!A'Companion'to'Pushkin’s'Lyric'Poetry.!!Madison:!University!of!Wisconsin!
Press,!2011.![useful!commentary/glossary!aids!in!reading!of!individual!poems!from!
Pushkin’s!later!period.!
!
!
Lermontov!
Eikhenbaum,!“Pushkin,!Tiutchev,!Lermontov”!in!Melodika:'russkogo'liricheskogo'stikha,!pp!
72C118.!
Powelstock,!David.!!“Living!into!Language:!Mikhail!Lermontov!and!the!Manufacturing!of!
Intimacy”!in!Russian'Subjects!(ed.!Greenleaf!and!MoellerCSally),!pp!297C324!
CCCCC.!Becoming'Mikhail'Lermontov:'The'Ironies'of'Romantic'Individualism'Nicholas'I’s'Russia.!
Evanston:!Northwestern!UP,!2005.!![selections]!!
Ginzburg,!L.!Ia.!!‘Poetika!lichnosti’!in!O'lirike.!
Ram,!Harsha.!The'Imperial'Sublime:'A'Russian'Poetics'of'Empire.!Madison:!University!of!
Wisconsin!Press,!2003.!Esp.!199C207.!
~~~~~~~~~!
!
C2:!!Fiction!and!Ideology!in!the!1860s!(Lent)!
!
Core!Texts:!
Ivan!Turgenev,!Otsy'i'deti!(1862)!
Nikolai!Chernyshevskii,!‘Chetvertyi!son!Very!Pavlovny’!(excerpt!from!Chto'delat’?,!1863)!!
Fedor!Dostoevskii,!Zapiski'iz'podpol'ia!(1864)!Part!IB,!Option!A!students!should!read!Part!I!in!
Russian;!Part!II!may!be!read!in!English.!
Dostoevskii,!Besy'(1872)!–!this!long!novel!is!optional,!but!should!be!read!in!the!vacation/year!
abroad!by!those!with!a!particular!interest!in!Dostoevskii.!!
!
Secondary!Readings!
Jones,!Malcolm!and!Robin!Feuer!Miller!(eds.).!Cambridge'Companion'to'the'Classic!Russian'
Novel.'Cambridge:!CUP,!1998.''[Especially!the!chapters!“Politics,”!“Psychology!and!
Society”!and!“Philosophy!in!the!NineteenthCcentury!Novel”]!
Leatherbarrow,!William!and!Derek!Offord!(eds.).!!'A'History'of'Russian'Thought.!Cambridge:!
CUP,!2010.!!'
Riasanovsky,!Nicholas.!Russian'Identities:'A'Historical'Survey.!Oxford:!Oxford!UP,!2005.!
Walicki,!Andrzej.!!A'History'of'Russian'Thought'from'the'Enlightenment'to'Marxism'(Stanford:!
Stanford!University!Press,!1979)'
!
Turgenev!
Allen,!Elizabeth!Cheresh.!Beyond'realism:'Turgenev's'poetics'of'secular'salvation.!Stanford:!
Stanford!Univ.!Press,!1992.!
Mathewson,!Rufus.!W.!The'Positive'Hero'in'Russian'Literature.!2nd!ed.!Evanston,!IL:!
Northwestern!UP,!1999.!
Orwin,!Donna!Tussing.!Consequences'of'Consciousness:'Turgenev,'Dostoevsky,'and'Tolstoy.!
Stanford!University!Press,!2007.!Esp.!92C112!
Paperno,!Irina.!Chernyshevsky'and'the'Age'of'Realism'[“Introduction”:!on!the!reception!of!
!
16!
Ottsy'i'deti'in!the!1860s]!
Russell!S.!Valentino,!“A!Wolf!in!Arkadia:!Generic!Fields,!Generic!Counterstatement!and!the!
Resources!of!Pastoral!in!Fathers'and'Sons”!Russian'Review,!Vol.!55,!No.!3!(Jul.,!1996),!
pp.!475C493:!http://www.jstor.org/stable/131795!
!
The!Norton!Critical!edition!of!Fathers'and'Sons'(ed.!&!trans.!Michael!Katz)!contains!a!very!
useful!selection!of!critical!materials!and!articles.!
!
Chernyshevsky!!(«Четвертый!сон!Веры!Павловны»!from!Что!делать?)!
Irina!Paperno,!Chernyshevsky'and'the'Age'of'Realism:'A'Study'in'the'Semiotics'of'Behavior.'
Stanford:!Stanford!University!Press,!1988.!
!
Dostoevsky!
!!Записки!из!подполья!!
Bakhtin,!Mikhail.!Problems'of'Dostoevsky’s'Poetics.!Minneapolis:!University!of!Minnesota!
Press,!1984.!227C37.!
Joseph!Frank,!Dostoevsky:'The'Stir'of'Liberation,'1860X65.'Princeton:!Princeton!University!
Press,!1977.!310C467.!
Michael!Holquist,!Dostoevsky'and'the'Novel!(Princeton:!Princeton!University!Press,!1977).!
Knapp,!Liza.!The'Annihilation'of'Inertia:'Dostoevsky'and'Metaphysics.!Northwestern!UP:!1996.!
!
!!Besy!
Anderson,!Nancy!K.,!The'Perverted'Ideal'in'Dostoevsky’s'The!Devils.!New!York:!Peter!Lang,!
1997.!
Apollonio,!Carol,!“The!Demon!of!Doubt!and!the!Revenge!of!the!Neglected!Son:!Demons”!in!
Dostoevsky’s'Secrets:'Reading'Against'the'Grain.'Evanston,!IL:!Northwestern!UP,!2009.!
104C116.!
Frank,!Joseph.!!Dostoevsky:'The'Miraculous'Years,'1865X1871.!(London:!Robson!Books,!1995)'!
CC!on!Besy,'see!396C498.!
Leatherbarrow,!William.!!Dostoevsky’s'The!Devils:'A'Critical'Companion.!Evanston,!IL:!
Northwestern!UP,!1999.!
CCCCCCCCCC.!!‘The!Devils’!Vaudeville:!“Decoding”!the!Demonic!in!Dostoevsky’s!The'Devils!in!
Russian'Literature'and'its'Demons.!!Ed.!Pamela!Davidson.!!New!York!&!Oxford:!Berghahn!
Books,!2000.!
!
!
!!General/both!texts!
Scanlan,!James.!Dostoevsky'the'Thinker.!Ithaca:!Cornell!UP,!2002.!
Leatherbarrow,!William.!!Cambridge'Companion'to'Dostoevskii.!Cambridge:!CUP,!2002.!
Ward,!Bruce!K.,!Dostoevsky’s'Critique'of'the'West:'The'Quest'for'Earthly'Paradise.!Waterloo!&!
Ontario:!Wilfrid!Laurier!UP,!1986.!
Williams,!Rowan.!!Dostoevsky:'Language,'Faith,'and'Fiction.!Waco,!TX:!Baylor!UP,!2008.!
!
~~~~~~~~~!
!
!
!
17!
!
C3:!!The!Drama!in!the!Nineteenth!Century!(1!lecture!end!of!Michaelmas,!1!lecture!end!of!
Lent)!!!
!
Core!texts!
!
Griboedov!
Gore'ot'uma'(1822C23)!
Gogol! !
Revizor!(1836)!
Ostrovsky!
Groza!(1859)!
Chekhov!
Chaika'(1896)!
'
'
Vishnev’yi'sad!(1904)!
[Diadia'Vania'(1899)!/!Tri'sestry'(1901)'!C!as!addition/alternatives,!if!you!wish,!
though!lectures!will!focus!on!the!other!two!plays]!
!
See!readings!lists!for!Gogol!and!Chekhov!in!Section!B.!
!
Griboedov!
Gershkovich,!Alexander.!!‘Russian!Romantic!Drama:!The!Case!of!Griboedov’!in!Romantic'
Drama.!Ed.!Gerald!Gillespie.!!Amsterdam!and!Philadelphia:!J.!Benjamins,!1994.!
Kalbouss, George.!‘Rhyming!Patterns!in!Griboedov’s!Gore'ot'uma’.!The'Slavic'and'East'
European'Journal,!39:1!(1985),!pp.!1C13.!![JSTOR]!
Tynianov,!Iu.!N.!‘Siuzhet!“Gore!ot!uma”’!!http://az.lib.ru/t/tynjanow_j_n/text_0150.shtml!
!
Ostrovsky!
Peace,!Richard.!!‘A.!N.!Ostrovksy’s!“The!Thunderstorm”:!The!Dramatization!of!Conceptual!
Ambivalance’.!The'Modern'Language'Review'84.9!(1989),!99C110.!![JSTOR]
Rahman,!Kate!Sealey.!Ostrovsky:'Reality'and'Illusion.!Birmingham:!Birmingham!Slavonic!
Monographs,!1999.!
CCCCCCCCCC.!!‘Aleksandr!Ostrovsky!–!dramatist!and!director’!in!A'History'of'Russian'Theatre.!!Eds.!
Robert!Leach!and!Victor!Borovsky.!!Cambridge,!CUP,!1999.!
!
General!
Leach,!Robert!and!Victor!Borovsky.!!A'History'of'Russian'Theatre.!Cambridge,!CUP,!1999.!
Listengarten,!Julia.!!Russian'Tragifarce:'its'cultural'and'political'roots.!!Cranbury,!NJ:!
Associated!University!Presses,!2000.!
Pavis,!Patrice!and!Christine!Shantz.!!Dictionary'of'the'Theatre:'Terms,'Concepts,'and'Analysis.!!
Toronto:!University!of!Toronto!Press,!1998.!
Schuler,!Catherine.!!Theatre'and'Identity'in'Imperial'Russia.!!Iowa!City:!University!of!Iowa!
Press,!2009.!
Senelick,!Laurence,!ed.!!Russian'Dramatic'Theory'from'Pushkin'to'the'Symbolists:'An'
Anthology.!!Austin:!University!of!Texas!Press,!1981.!
!
!
!
!
"""!
!
18!