Sl.4:RussianLiteratureandCulturefromtheGoldenAgetotheSilverAge

ChekhovandTolstoyinCrimea(1901)

CourseAdvisers:DrAlysonTapp(alt33@cam.ac.uk)

Handbook2018-19(updatedJune’18)

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Contents1. Introduction……………………………………................................................3

2. OverviewofTextsandTopicsfor2018-19……………………………………..3

3. Teaching&Assessment…………………………………………………………………4

4. PreparatoryReading……………………………………………………………………..5

5. ReadingLists…………………………………………………………………………………5

UsingtheReadingLists………………………………………………………5

SectionA:SetTexts……………………………………………………………6

SectionB:Topics………………………………………………………………..10

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Sl.4:RussianLiteratureandCulturefromtheGoldenAgetotheSilverAgeIntroductionThenineteenthcenturysawtherapiddevelopmentofRussianliteraryculture–fromtheemergenceofthemodernRussianliterarylanguage,totheriseofthegreatRussiannovel,and,bytheendofthecentury,thelaunchofmodernisminRussia.Boldintheirformalandaestheticinnovation,theworksofthisperiodposethedecisivequestionsofRussianmodernityandpursueurgentissuesofsocial,politicalandtheologicalimport.ThecourseisastudyofRussianliteraturefromthebeginningofthenineteenthcenturythroughtheveryearlytwentiethcenturyandintroducesstudentstoarangeofauthors,genresandissues.Inordertoachieveabalanceofdepthandbreadth,thepaperisorganizedaroundthestudyoftwosettextsandfourtopics.(TherearesuggestedpathwaysthroughthetextsandtopicstailoredtoPartIB,optionA(ex-abinitio)students,butstudentsshouldnotfeellimitedtothese).OverviewofTextsandTopicsfor2018-19SetTexts:A1.AleksandrPushkin,EvgeniiOnegin(1825-32)A2.LevTolstoi,AnnaKarenina(1873-77)Topics:B1.TheElegy(1800s-1830s)B2.PetersburgTales(1830s-40s)B3.FictionandIdeologyinthe1860sB4.Chekhov:ProseandPlays(1880s-1904)

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Teaching

WeeklylecturesinMichaelmasandLent;weeklyrevisionseminarsinEaster.Tenfortnightlysupervisionsthroughouttheyear.StudentstakingtheLongEssayoptioncandiscussadjustmentstotheschedulebelowthatbestaccommodatetheirinterests.

LectureScheduleMichaelmas LentWk. Lecture Supervision Wk. Lecture Supervision1 elegy 1 AnnaKarenina 2 elegy elegy 2 AnnaKarenina AK 3 EvgeniiOnegin 3 1860s 4 EvgeniiOnegin EO 4 1860s AK5 EvgeniiOnegin 5 1860s 6 PetersburgTales EO 6 Chekhov 1860s7 PetersburgTales 7 Chekhov 8 AnnaKarenina Gogol/Dostoevsky 8 Conclusions Chekhov EasterRevisionsessionsinlectureslots,Weeks1-3(2hrs).2xrevisionsupervisions.

AssessmentAssessmentbyLongEssayinsteadoffinalexaminationisavailableinthispaperforstudentsinPartIB(OptionsA&B).Theexaminationisstructuredasfollows:SectionAwillconsistofacommentaryononeofthesettextsandessayquestionsontheother.SectionBwillofferseveralquestionsoneachoftheprescribedtopicsaswellasmoreopenquestionsthatmightbeansweredwithreferencetoawiderangeoftextsandperiods.AllquestionsinSectionBwillrequirecandidatestowriteaboutatleasttwotextsofwhichatleastonemustbealiterarytext.

Allcandidatesmustanswerthreequestions.StudentsforPartIB(OptionsA&B)answer:

1questionfromSectionAanyother2questions(whichmayinclude1furtherquestionfromSectionA)

StudentsforPartIIanswer:

1questionfromSectionA2questionsfromSectionB

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PreparatoryReadingandGeneralBackgroundStudentsareurgedtobuyandreadbothSetTextsduringthesummer(orYearAbroad),aswellas,inparticular,anyoptionallongertextstheywishtocover(e.g.Mertvyedushi,Besy).

Thefollowingreadinglistservesasanintroductiontothesubject.

CarylEmerson,TheCambridgeIntroductiontoRussianLiterature(esp.chs1,4,5,6)WilliamMillsTodd,III,FictionandSocietyintheAgeofPushkin:Ideology,Institutionsand

Narrative(chs.1,2,3)MalcolmV.JonesandRobinFeuerMiller(eds.),TheCambridgeCompaniontotheClassic

RussianNovelMichaelWachtel,CambridgeIntroductiontoRussianPoetry(chs1,2,3,4)AndrewWachtelandIlyaVinitsky.“TheSpiritofPoetry:RussianCultureintheAgeof

AlexanderI”inRussianLiteratureAndrzejWalicki,AHistoryofRussianThought(esp.chs3,5,6,7,8,11)Studentsshouldreadthroughascholarlyhistoryof19th-centuryRussiasuchas:GregoryFreeze,Russia:AHistory(chs5,6,7,8)orNicholasRiasanovskyandMarkSteinberg,AHistoryofRussia(8thedition;Chs24-30)

ReadingListsUsingtheReadingListsThelistsbelowspecifyPrimaryandSecondarytexts,organisedbySectionandTopic.Thelistsareextensivebutnotexhaustive:inotherwords,youshouldfeelneitherdauntednotlimitedbythem!SectionsB&C(PrescribedAuthors&Topics)� Remember thatyouwillbemakingselections fromamong theprimary textshere; theyarenotallcompulsoryreading.� In particular, students are reminded that the long novel Besy by Dostoevsky (B3) areoptional,andyoushouldplanaheadifyouwanttoreadit.� StudentsshouldconsultwiththeirsupervisortoselectprimarytextsfromthesuggestedoptionsaccordingtotheirinterestsandexperienceinRussian.Studentsmayalsochoosetoreadrelevantprimarytextsthatarenotlistedhere.SecondaryReadingsThesuggestionsforsecondaryreadingrepresentacollectionofresourcesandmenusofpossibilities:nooneexpectsyoutodoallofthereadingbelow!Yoursupervisorwillhelpyoutoorientateyourselfwithinthebibliography,andtouseyourtimeefficiently,bysuggestingthosetextswhichmostcloselyrelatetothethemesandapproachesthatinterestyou.

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SectionA:SetTextsA1.A.S.Pushkin,EvgeniiOnegin(1825-32)� Formerabinitiostudents(i.e.thoseinPartIB,OptionA)areonlyrequiredtoreadchapters1,2,7and8inRussian;theymustreadtheentirenovelinEnglishinordertofollowtheplot.� Recommendedtranslation:JamesE.Falen� Inaddition,althoughitdoesnotmakefor'smoothreading',Nabokov'sliteraltranslation,readsidebysidewiththeoriginal,isveryhelpful:itmakesforanexcellentprimerinreadingRussianverse,understandingtheflexibilityofwordorderetc…� StudentsinPartIB,OptionBandPartIIreadtheentirenovelinRussian.

Background,Biography,ReferenceBethea,David,ed.ThePushkinHandbook(UniversityofWisconsinPress,2006).Binyon,T.J.Pushkin.ABiography(London2003)Kahn,Andrew,ed.CambridgeCompaniontoPushkin.Cambridge:CUP,2006.CommentaryLotman,Iurii.RomanPushkina‘EvgeniiOnegin’:Kommentarii.Leningrad,1983.Nabokov,Vladimir(transl.,introd.andextensivecommentary).EugeneOnegin:ANovelin

VersebyAleksandrPushkin,4vols.(London,1964)OtherSecondaryReadings(i)Introductory/studentsurveystudies:Briggs,A.D.P.AleksandrPushkin:‘EugeneOnegin.’Cambridge,CUP:1992.Clayton,J.Douglas.IceandFlame.AleksandrPushkin’s‘EugeneOnegin’(Toronto1985)Dalton-Brown,S.Puskhin’sEvgeniiOnegin.Bristol:BristolClassicalPress,1997.Levitt,Marcus.“EvgeniiOnegin”inKahn,Andrew,ed.CambridgeCompaniontoPushkin.

Cambridge:CUP,2006.(ii)SeminalRussianscholarship:Hoisington,Sona,ed.RussianViewsofPushkin’sEugeneOnegin.Bloomington:Indiana

UniversityPress,1988.Lotman(see‘Commentary’above)Shklovskii,Viktor.“EugeneOnegin(PushkinandSterne)TranslatedfromtheRussianbyEmily

Finer.”ComparativeCriticalStudies1,no.1–2(June1,2004):171–193.Ginzburg,Lidiia,‘Кпостановкепроблемыреализмавпушкинскойлитературе,’Vremennik

pushkinskoikomissii(ANSSSR,1936),387-401.(iii)Seminal/extensivestudiesinwesternscholarship:Emerson,Caryl.“Tatiana,”inAPlotofHerOwn.FemaleProtagonistinRussianLiterature,ed.

SoniaHoisington.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUP,1995.6-20.Greenleaf,Monika.PushkinandRomanticFashion:Fragment,Elegy,Orient,Irony.Stanford:

StanfordUP,1997.esp.205-286.Hasty,OlgaPeters.Pushkin’sTatiana.Madison:UniversityofWisconsinPress,1999.

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Todd,WilliamMillsIII,'EugeneOnegin:“Life’sNovel”,inLiteratureandSocietyintheAgeofPushkin,ed.byWilliamMillsToddIII.Cambridge,MA:HarvardUP,1986.

(iv)Articleswithuseful,specificfocus:Cravens,C.“LyricandNarrativeConsciousnessin‘EugeneOnegin’.”SlavicandEastEuropean

Journal46,no.4(2002):683–709.Dvigubski,Anna.“‘AndWhatofMyOnegin?’DisplacementandReinventionoftheHeroin

EugeneOnegin.”TheRussianReview72,no.1(2013):1–23.Gelder,Ann.‘WanderinginExile:ByronandPushkin,’ComparativeLiterature42:4(Autum,

1990),319-334.Greg,Richard.‘StanzaandPlotinEvgeniiOnegin:ASymbiosis?’SlavonicandEastEuropean

Review72:4(October1994),609-621.Hoisington,SonaStephan.“‘EugeneOnegin’:AnInvertedByronicPoem.”Comparative

Literature27(1975):136.-----.“ParodyinEvgeniiOnegin:Lenskii’sLament.”CanadianSlavonicPapers/Revue

CanadienneDesSlavistes:AnInterdisciplinaryJournalDevotedtoCentralandEasternEurope29,no.2–3(June1,1987):266–278.

Ketchian,S.I.“‘What’sHiddeninMyName?’:NamesasaWindowintoPushkin’s‘EvgenijOnegin’.”RussianLiterature60,no.2(August2006):159–183.

Lesic-Thomas,Andrea.“FocalizationinPushkin’sEugeneOneginandLermontov’sAHeroofOurTime:LovingtheSemanticVoidandtheDizzinessofInterpretation.”TheModernLanguageReview103,no.4(October1,2008).

Reid,RobertandJoeAndrew,eds.,TwoHundredYearsofPushkin,VolsIIandIII(Rodopi,2004).RecommendedarticlesinVolII:Bethea,Palmer;inVolIII:Freeborn,Weststeijn,Clayton,DeHaard,Livingstone.

Reyfman,Irina.RitualizedViolenceRussianStyle:TheDuelinRussianCultureandLiterature.Stanford:StanfordUP,1999.

Semenko,I.M.,andSonaHoisington.“The‘Author’inEugeneOnegin:ImageandFunction.”Canadian-AmericanSlavicStudies29,no.3–4(January1,1995):233–255.

Wachtel,Michael,‘TheOneginstanza:frompoeticdigressiontopoeticnostalgia’,inTheDevelopmentofRussianVerse:MeteranditsMeanings(Cambridge:CUP,2006)

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A2:L.N.Tolstoi,AnnaKarenina(1873-77)� Formerabinitiostudents(i.e.thoseinPartIB,OptionA)readatleasttheextractsspecifiedbelowinRussian(roughlyonethirdofthenovel);theyreadtheentirenovelinEnglishinordertofollowtheplot:PartI:1-4,7-11,13,16-23,26-34;Part2:7-12,21-29;Part3:1-5,13-16,22-25,31-32;Part4:1,3-5,9-13,15-23;Part6:3,7-16,19-20,31-33;Part7:9-16,23-31;Part8:8-19.� Recommendedtranslations:eitherRosemaryEdmondsORRichardPevearandLarissaVolokhonsky.� StudentsinPartIB,OptionBandPartIIreadtheentirenovelinRussian.

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Background,Biography,ReferenceBartlett,Rosamund.Tolstoy:ARussianLife(ProfilePress,2011).[Biography]Eikhenbaum,Boris.Tolstoivsemidesiatykhgodakh.InEnglish:TolstoiintheSeventies.

trans.AlbertKaspin.Ardis,AnnArbor.(Masterfulblendofbiographical,philologicalandtextualanalysisbyleading'formalist'critic.)

Freeze,Gregory.“ReformandCounterreform,1855-1890”inRussia:AHistory,ed.GregoryFreeze(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1997),pp.170-199.Historicalcontext.

Knapp,LizaandAmyMandelker,eds.ApproachestoTeachingTolstoy’sAnnaKarenina(MLA:2003).Excellent,veryusefulanthologyofshortcriticaltexts.

RelevantTheoreticalWorks(notdealingwithAKexplicitly):Bakhtin,Mikhail.'FormsofTimeandoftheChronotopeintheNovel:Notestowarda

HistoricalPoetics,'inhisDialogicImagination:FourEssays,ed.MichaelHolquist(UniversityofTexasPress,1982),pp.84-85,224-258.

Brooks,Peter.ReadingforthePlot:DesignandIntentioninNarrative(HarvardUP,1992).3-61.

Tanner,Tony.AdulteryintheNovel:ContractandTransgression.JohnsHopkinsUP,1981.Auerbach,Eric.'Odysess'sScar,'inMimesis:TheRepresentationofRealityinWestern

Literature.Trans.WillardR.Task.Princeton:PrincetonUP,2003.2-23.Jakobson,Roman.'OnRealisminArt,’inReadingsinRussianPoetics:Formalistand

StructuralistViews.Eds.LadislavMatejkaandKrystynaPomorska.Cambridge,MA:TheMITPress,1971.38-46

� forwrestlingwith'Realism':seealsoentriesforGustafson,KligerandKovarskybelow. Workswhichpromotesomethingapproachinga“comprehensive”readingofthenovel,

throughextensiveengagementwiththetextand/orbydintofinterpretativeapproach:Alexandrov,Vladimir.LimitstoInterpretation.TheMeaningsofAnnaKarenina.Madison:

WisconsinUP:2004.Gustafson,Richard,'ThePoeticsofEmblematicRealism'inLeoTolstoy:ResidentandStranger:

AStudyinFictionandTheology.PrincetonUP,1986.202-213.Kliger,Ilya.'Tolstoy'sPlotlinesandTruthShapes',inhisTheNarrativeShapeofTruth:

VeridictioninModernEuropeanLiterature.PennStateUP,2011.145-176.Mandelker,Amy.FramingAnnaKarenina:Tolstoy,theWomanQuestion,andtheVictorian

Novel.Columbus:OhioStateUP,1993.Morson,GarySaul.AnnaKareninainOurTime.NewHaven:YaleUP,2007.Morson,GarySaul.'AnnaKarenina’sOmens,'inFreedomandResponsibilityinRussian

Literature,ed.E.C.AllenandG.S.Morson.Evanston:NorthwesternUP,1995.134-152.Ontheepigraph:Eikhenbaum,Boris.TolstoiintheSeventies.Trans.AlbertKaspin.Ardis,AnnArbor,1982.Holland,Kate.‘TheOpeningofAnnaKarewnina’ininKnapp,LizaandAmyMandelker,eds.

ApproachestoTeachingTolstoy’sAnnaKarenina(MLA:2003).144-149.Morson.GarySaul.'Tolstoy'sAbsoluteLanguage,'CriticalInquiry7:4(Summer1981),667-

687.

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OtherSecondaryReadings:usethetitlestonavigateissuesthatinterestyou,orconsultyoursupervisorforrecommendations.� anumberofarticlesappearineditionsoftheTolstoyStudiesJournal(abbreviatedbelow:TSJ)[inUL:NorthFront,Fl5,P576.b.29]Alexandrov,Vladimir.“RelativeTimeinAnnaKarenina,”RussianReview41:2(April1982):

159-68.Bendiksen,AnnaPrimrose.'TheSwishingoftheScythes:TheMowingSceneinAnna

Karenina,'RussianLiterature40:4(November1996),517-523.Bloom,Harold(ed.),LeoTolstoy’s‘AnnaKarenina.’NewYork,1987.deSherbinin,Julie.'TheDismantlingofHierarchyandtheDefenseofSocialClassinAnna

Karenina,’RussianReview70:4(October2011):646-662.Emerson,Caryl.‘ProsaicsinAnnaKarenina:ProandCon,’TSJVIII:150-76.Evdokimova,Svetlana.'TheDrawingandtheGreaseSpot:CreativityandInterpretationin

AnnaKarenina,'TSJVIII:33-45Goscilo,Helena.'TolstoyanFare:CredoalaCarte,'SlavonicandEastEuropeanReview62:4

(October1984),481-495.[Jstor]Herman,David.'AllowablePassionsinAnnaKarenina,'TSJVIII:5-32.Jahn,Gary.‘TheImageoftheRailroadinAnnaKarenina,’SlavicandEastEuropeanJournal

25:2(1981):1-10.Knapp,Liza.'TheEstatesofPokrovskoeandVozdvizhenskoe:Tolstoy’sLabyrinthofLinkings

inAnnaKarenina,’TSJVIII:81-98.Knapp,Liza.'“Tue-la!Tue-le!:DeathSentences,Words,andInnerMonologuen

Tolstoy’sAnnaKareninaandThreeMoreDeaths.’TSJXI:1-19.Knapp,Liza.AnnaKareninaandOthers:Tolstoy’sLabyrinthofPlots.Madison,WI:Univeristy

ofWisconsinPress,2016.Kovarsky,Gina.'MimesisandMoralEducationinAnnaKarenina,'TSJVIII:61-80Kujundzic,Dragan,‘PardoningWomaninAnnaKarenina’,TSJVI:65-86.Lonnqvist,Barbara.“AnnaKarenina,”inTheCambridgeCompaniontoTolstoy.Ed.Donna

TussingOrwin.Cambridge:CUP,2002.80-95.Meyer,Priscilla.‘”AnnaKarenina,”Rousseau,andtheGospels,’RussianReview66:2(April

2007),204-219.Meyer,Priscilla.‘AnnaKarenina:Tolstoy’sPolemicwithMadameBovary,’RussianReview

54:2(April1995),243-259.Meyer,Priscilla.‘Tolstoy,AnnaKarenina,’inherHowtheRussiansReadtheFrench.Madison:

UnivofWisconsinPress,2008.152-209.Morson,GarySaul.'PoeticJustice,FalseListening,andFallinginLove,Or,WhyAnnaRefusesa

Divorce,'TSJVIII:177-197.Morson,GarySaul.'WhatisAgriculture?'[inTolstoy],RussianLiterature40(1996)481-490.Morson,GarySaul'WorkandtheAuthenticLifeinTolstoy,'TSJIX:36-48.Orwin.DonnaTussing.Tolstoy’sArtandThought,1847-1880.PrincetonUP,1993.Paperno,Irina.“Who,WhatamI?”TolstoyStrugglestoNarratetheSelf.Ithaca:CornellUP,

2014.Schultze,Sydney.TheStructureofAnnaKarenina(AnnArbor:Ardis,1982)Seifrid,Thomas.'GazingonLife'sPage:PerspectivalVisioninTolstoy,'PMLA113:3(May

1998),436-448.

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Tapp,Alyson.‘MovingStories:(E)motionandNarrativeinAnnaKarenina,’RussianLiterature61:3(2007),341-361.

Turner,C.J.G.'Psychology,RhetoricandMoralityinAnnaKarenina,'SEEJ39:2(1995):261-268[Jstor]

Weir,Justin.'AnnaIncommunicada:LanguageandConsciousnessinAnnaKarenina,'TSJVIII:99-111.

Whitcomb,Curt.‘ResistingtheEffortlessinAnnaKarenina,’TSJVII:32-43Whitcomb,Curt.'Treacherous«Charm»inAnnaKarenina,'SlavicandEastEuropeanJournal

39:2(Summer1995),214-226[Jstor]

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SectionB:TopicsB1:TheElegy(Michaelmas)SelectedpoetrybyZhukovskii,Batiushkov,Pushkin,Baratynskii,Lermontov.� Thepoemsmarked*aresuggestedfortheattetionofPartIB,OptionAstudents.� Thepoemsarelistedbypoet,andthenby—loose—sub-categoriesofthegenre.Inmanyinstancesthedesignationisnotclear-cut,andisasmuchapointfordiscussionasclearcategorization.Ifyoudecidethatyouwanttomakeanexcursioninto‘historical’or‘exilic’elegy,say,thenthesecategorieswillguideyou.� Inallcases,studentsshouldreadelegiesfrommorethanonecategory.V.A.Zhukovskii

‘Sel’skoekladbishche,’*‘Nasmert’AndreiaTurgeneva,’‘KK.M.Sokovninoi,’‘Vecher(elegiia)’

K.N.Batiushkov*‘Vyzdorovlenie,’‘Ten’druga,’‘NarazvalinakhzamkavShvetsii,’*‘Moigenii,’‘PerekhodcherezRein’

A.S.Pushkin*‘Probuzhdenie,’‘Naezdniki,’*‘Pogaslodnevnoesvetilo,’*‘Iaperezhilsvoizhelan’ia,’‘Umolknuskoroia!...,’‘Prostish’limnerevnivyemechty,’*‘Kmoriu,’*‘Vospominanie,’‘Brozhuliiavdol’ulitsshumnykh’

E.A.Baratynskii*(OptionA:pickanyonepoem) ‘Razluka’(“Rasstalis’my;namigocharovanie”),‘Razuveren’e,’‘Priznanie’M.Iu.Lermontov

*‘Gliazhunabudushchnost’sboiazn’iu’(OptionA:OR‘Duma’),*‘Duma,’‘Son’*‘Iskuchnoigrustno’

‘Foundational’elegyfor19thCRussiantradition:‘Sel’skoekladbishche’(1802)Gloomyelegy:Zhukovskii,‘Vecher(elegiia)’

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Lovepoem/Eroticelegy:Batiushkov,‘Vyzdorovlenie’,‘Moigenii’;Baratynskii,‘Razluka’(1820),‘Priznanie’(1824/35);Pushkin,‘Probuzhdenie’,‘Naezdniki’,‘Umolknuskoroia!...,’‘Prostish’limnerevnivyemechty’;Lermontov,‘Son’Funerealelegy:Zhukovskii,‘Nasmert’AndreiaTurgeneva’;‘KK.M.Sokovninoi’;Batiushkov,‘Ten’druga’Historicalelegy:Batiushkov,‘NarazvalinakhzamkavShvetsii’,‘PerekhodcherezRein’Byronicelegy:Pushkin,‘Iaperezhilsvoizhelan’ia’;Lermontov,‘Iskuchnoigrustno’Contemplative/meditativeelegy:Pushkin,‘Pogaslodnevnoesvetilo’,‘Vospominanie’,‘Brozhuliiavdol’ulitsshumnykh’;Lermontov,‘Gliazhunabudushchnost’sboiazn’iu’,‘Duma’.Exilicelegy:Pushkin,*‘Kmoriu’SecondaryReadings

TheoreticalReadingSacks,PeterM.TheEnglishElegy:StudiesintheGenrefromSpensertoYeats.Baltimore:

JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,1985.‘Introduction’,pp.1-37. Onversification

Wachtel,Michael.TheCambridgeIntroductiontoRussianPoetry(CUP:2004)(Chapters1-3areaboutreadingapoem;Chapter1givesagoodoverviewofversification;*Seealso:Ch4‘FromtheOdetotheElegy’

Formoredetailonpoeticmetersee:Wachtel,Michael.TheDevelopmentofRussianVerse:MeteranditsMeanings(CUP:1998.OnpoetryandelegyFrizman,L.G.Zhiznliricheskogozhanra:russkaiaelegiiaotSumerokovadoNekrasova.

Moscow:Nauka,1973.Ginzburg,L.Ia.Olirike.2ndedition.Moscow:Sovetskiipisatel’,1974. Golburt,Luba.“Derzhavin’sRuinsandtheBirthofHistoricalElegy.”SlavicReview65,no.

4(winter2006):670-693.(thoughDerzhavinisnotoneofourmainpoets-stilluseful)Todd,III,WilliamMills.“ARussianIdeology”and“InstitutionsofLiterature”inFictionand

SocietyintheAgeofPushkin,pp10-44&45-105.Tosi,Alessandra.“FictioninAlexander’sRussia:theSocialandCulturalContext”inWaitingfor

Pushkin:RussianFictionintheReignofAlexanderI(1801-1825),pp19-62Wachtel,AndrewandIlyaVinitsky.“TheSpiritofPoetry:RussianCultureintheAgeof

AlexanderI”inRussianLiterature.Cambridge:Polity,2009.57-88.Vatsuro,V.E.LirikaPushkinskoipory:elegicheskaiashkola.StPetersburg:Nauka,1994.

WorksonindividualpoetsForaquick,well-writtenoverviewofeachpoet,intermsofbothpoetryandbiography,seeEncyclopediaoftheRomanticEra,1760-1850(ed.ChristopherJohnMurray).IncludesentriesonBatiushkov,Baratnyskii,Zhukovskii,Pushkin,Lermontov,Tiutchev.NeilCornwell’sReferenceGuidetoRussianLiteratureissimilarlyusefulandincludesentriesonallthepoetsinthetopic.

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ZhukovskiiCiepiela,Catherine.“ReadingRussianPastoral:Zhukovsky’sTranslationofGray’sElegy.”In

RereadingRussianPoetry.NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,1999.Semenko,I.M.VasilyZhukovsky.Boston,Twayne,1976.Eikhenbaum,B.M.“Zhukovskii”inMelodika:russkogoliricheskogostikha,pp27-71Vinitisky,Ilya.VasilyZhukovsky’sRomanticismandtheEmotionalHistoryofRussia.Evanston:

NorthwesternUP(2015)BatiushkovSerman,I.Z.KonstantinBatyushkov.NewYork:Twayne,1974.(anEnglishlanguage

biography)MonikaGreenleaf,“FoundinTranslation:theSubjectofBatiushkov’sPoetry”inRussian

Subjects:Empire,Nation,andtheCultureoftheGoldenAge(ed.GreenleafandMoeller-Sally),pp51-80

N.V.Fridman,“Khudozhestvennyimetodistil’Batiushkova-poeta”inPoeziiaBatiushkova(Moscow:Nauka,1971),pp253-314

BaratynskiiBrown,WilliamEdward.AHistoryofRussianLiteratureoftheRomanticPeriod.AnnArbor,

MI:Ardis,1986.Dees,JospehBenjamin.E.A.Baratynsky.NewYork:Twayne,1972.SarahPratt,RussianMetaphysicalRomanticism:thePoetryofTiutchevandBoratynskii.

Stanford:StanfordUP,1984.PushkinT.J.Binyon,Pushkin:ABiography.NewYork:AlfredA.Knopf,2003.Bethea,DavidandDavydov,Sergei.“Pushkin’sBiography”inThePushkinHandbook.Еd.

DavidBethea.Madison:UnivofWisconsinPress,2005.3-24.Eikhenbaum,Boris.“Pushkin,Tiutchev,Lermontov”inMelodika:russkogoliricheskogostikha,

pp72-118Gasparov,Boris.“PushkinandRomanticism”inThePushkinHandbook(ed.Bethea),pp537-

567Golburt,Luba.“AlexanderPushkinasaRomantic”inTheOxfordHandbookofEuropean

Romanticism(ed.PaulHamilton).Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2016.512-532. Greenleaf,Monika.PushkinandRomanticFashion:Fragment,Elegy,Orient,Irony.Stanford,

Calif.:StanfordUniversityPress,1994.56-107.Kahn,Andrew.“Pushkin’sLyricIdentities”inTheCambridgeCompaniontoPushkin(ed.

Kahn),pp26-40.-----.Pushkin’sLyricIntelligence(Oxford:OUP2008).[forconsultationonindividualpoems.]Ram,Harsha.TheImperialSublime:ARussianPoeticsofEmpire.Madison:Universityof

WisconsinPress,2003.Esp.176-86and198-211.Sandler,Stephanie.“Baratynskii,Pushkin,andHamlet:OnMourningandPoetry”,Russian

Review,Vol.42,No.1(Jan.,1983),pp.73-90.-----.DistantPleasures:AlexanderPushkinandtheWritingofExile.Stanford:StanfordUP,

1989.57-76.[on‘Kmoriu’]

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Wachtel,Michael.ACompaniontoPushkin’sLyricPoetry.Madison:UniversityofWisconsinPress,2011.[usefulcommentary/glossaryaidsinreadingofindividualpoemsfromPushkin’slaterperiod.

LermontovEikhenbaum,“Pushkin,Tiutchev,Lermontov”inMelodika:russkogoliricheskogostikha,pp

72-118.Powelstock,David.“LivingintoLanguage:MikhailLermontovandtheManufacturingof

Intimacy”inRussianSubjects(ed.GreenleafandMoeller-Sally),pp297-324-----.BecomingMikhailLermontov:TheIroniesofRomanticIndividualismNicholasI’sRussia.

Evanston:NorthwesternUP,2005.[selections]Ginzburg,L.Ia.‘Poetikalichnosti’inOlirike.Ram,Harsha.TheImperialSublime:ARussianPoeticsofEmpire.Madison:Universityof

WisconsinPress,2003.Esp.199-207.

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B2.PetersburgTalesofGogolandDostoevsky(Michaelmas) N.V.Gogol’

PetersburgTales(1835-36) ‘NevskiiProspekt’

‘Portret’‘Zapiskisumasshedshego’‘Nos’

F.M.Dostoevskii,Dvoinik(1846)

SecondaryreadingsGogol:Cornwell,Neil.‘AntecedentstotheAbsurd’inTheAbsurdinLiterature.Manchester:

ManchesterUP,2006.33-65.Fanger,Donald.TheCreationofNikolaiGogol.Cambridge,MA:BelknapPress,1979.Frazier,Melissa.FramesoftheImagination:Gogol’sArabesquesandtheRomanticQuestion

ofGenre.NewYork:PeterLang,2000.Fusso,SusanneandPriscillaMeyer(eds.)EssaysonGogol:LogosandtheRussianWord.

Evanston:NorthwesternEuropeanPress,1992.Graffy,Julian.‘TheDevilisintheDetail:DemonicFeaturesofGogol’sPetersburg’inRussian

LiteratureanditsDemons.Ed.PamelaDavidson.NewYork&Oxford:BerghahnBooks,2000.

Grayson,JaneandFaithWizgell(eds.).NikolaiGogol:TextandContext.NewYork:StMartin’sPress,1989.

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Holquist,Michael.Dialogism:BakhtinandHisWorld(2ndedition).LondonandNewYork:Routledge,2002.118-36[on“Zapiski”].

Karlinsky,Simon.TheSexualLabyrinthofNikolaiGogol.Chicago:UnivofChicagoPress,1976.Maguire,Robert.ExploringGogol.Stanford:StanfordUP,1994.Maguire,Robert(ed.)GogolfromtheTwentiethCentury.Princeton:PrincetonUP,1974.Moeller-Sally,Stephen.‘0000;or,TheSignoftheSubjectinGogol’sPetersburg’inRussian

Subjects:Empire,Nation,andtheCultureoftheGoldenAge.Eds.MoikaGreenleaf&StephenMoeller-Sally.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUP,1998.325-346.

Nabokov,Vladimir.NikolaiGogol.[variouseditions]Peace,Richard.TheEnigmaofGogol.Cambridge:CUP,1981.Popkin,Cathy.ThePragmaticsofInsignificance:Chekhov,Zoshchenko,Gogol.Stanford:

StanfordUP,1993.Seifrid,Thomas.‘SuspiciontowardNarrative:TheNoseandtheProblemofAutonomyin

Gogol's"Nos"’.RussianReview52:3(July1993),pp.382-396.Spieker,Sven.Gogol:ExploringAbsence:NegativityinNineteenth-centuryRussianliterature.

Bloomington:Slavica,1999.

linkstocriticalworksonGogolinRussian:http://feb-web.ru/feb/gogol/default.asp?/feb/gogol/critics/-go-crl1.htm

CollectionsofessaysonGogolcanbefoundinthejournaleditionsEssaysinPoetics,(2003&2004),Vols.28&29.

Dostoevsky:

Bakhtin,Mikhail.ProblemsofDostoevsky’sPoetics.Minneapolis:UniversityofMinnesotaPress,1984.[lookinindexfor‘TheDouble’]

Chizhevsky,Dmitri.“TheThemeofthedoubleinDostoevsky”inDosteovsky,ed.ReneWellek.EnglewoodCliffs,NJ:Prentice-Hall,1962:112-129.

Dryzhakova,Elena.‘MadnessasanActofDefenceofPersonalityinDostoevsky’sTheDouble’inMadnessandtheMadinRussianCulturе.Ed.AngelaBrintlingerandIlyaVinitsky.Toronto:UniversityoftorontoPress,2006.59-74.

Fanger,Donald.DostoevskyandRomanticRealism.Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,1967.

Morson,GarySaul.“WhatIsItLiketoBeBats?ParadoxesofTheDouble”inDostoevskyBeyondDostoevsky,eds.SvetlanaEvdokimovaandVladimirGolstein.Boston:AcademicStudiesPress,2016.

---------.‘MeandMyDouble:Selfhood,Consciousness,andEmpathyinTheDouble’inBeforeTheyWereTitans:EssaysontheEarlyWorksofDostoevskyandTolstoy.Ed.

ElizabethChereshAllen.Boston:AcademicStudiesPress,2015.43-60.Porter,Jillian.EconomiesofFeeling:RussianLiteratureUnderNicholasI.Evanston,IL:

NorthwesternUniversityPress,2017.[Also,Porter’sarticle:“TheDouble,theRuble,theReal:CounterfeitMoneyinDostoevsky'sDvoinik,”TheSlavicandEastEuropeanJournal58.3(Fall2014):378-93.]

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B3:FictionandIdeologyinthe1860s(Lent)CoreTexts:IvanTurgenev,Otsyideti(1862)NikolaiChernyshevskii,‘ChetvertyisonVeryPavlovny’(excerptfromChtodelat’?,1863)FedorDostoevskii,Zapiskiizpodpol'ia(1864)PartIB,OptionAstudentsshouldreadPartIinRussian;PartIImaybereadinEnglish.Dostoevskii,Besy(1872)–thislongnovelisoptional,butshouldbereadinthevacation/yearabroadbythosewithaparticularinterestinDostoevskii.SecondaryReadingsJones,MalcolmandRobinFeuerMiller(eds.).CambridgeCompaniontotheClassicRussian

Novel.Cambridge:CUP,1998.[Especiallythechapters“Politics,”“PsychologyandSociety”and“PhilosophyintheNineteenth-centuryNovel”]

Leatherbarrow,WilliamandDerekOfford(eds.).AHistoryofRussianThought.Cambridge:CUP,2010.

Riasanovsky,Nicholas.RussianIdentities:AHistoricalSurvey.Oxford:OxfordUP,2005.Walicki,Andrzej.AHistoryofRussianThoughtfromtheEnlightenmenttoMarxism(Stanford:

StanfordUniversityPress,1979)TurgenevAllen,ElizabethCheresh.Beyondrealism:Turgenev'spoeticsofsecularsalvation.Stanford:

StanfordUniv.Press,1992.Mathewson,Rufus.W.ThePositiveHeroinRussianLiterature.2nded.Evanston,IL:

NorthwesternUP,1999.Orwin,DonnaTussing.ConsequencesofConsciousness:Turgenev,Dostoevsky,andTolstoy.

StanfordUniversityPress,2007.Esp.92-112Paperno,Irina.ChernyshevskyandtheAgeofRealism[“Introduction”:onthereceptionof

Ottsyidetiinthe1860s]RussellS.Valentino,“AWolfinArkadia:GenericFields,GenericCounterstatementandthe

ResourcesofPastoralinFathersandSons”RussianReview,Vol.55,No.3(Jul.,1996),pp.475-493:http://www.jstor.org/stable/131795

TheNortonCriticaleditionofFathersandSons(ed.&trans.MichaelKatz)containsaveryusefulselectionofcriticalmaterialsandarticles.Chernyshevsky(«ЧетвертыйсонВерыПавловны»fromЧтоделать?)IrinaPaperno,ChernyshevskyandtheAgeofRealism:AStudyintheSemioticsofBehavior.

Stanford:StanfordUniversityPress,1988.Dostoevsky� ЗапискиизподпольяBakhtin,Mikhail.ProblemsofDostoevsky’sPoetics.Minneapolis:UniversityofMinnesota

Press,1984.227-37.

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JosephFrank,Dostoevsky:TheStirofLiberation,1860-65.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1977.310-467.

MichaelHolquist,DostoevskyandtheNovel(Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,1977).Knapp,Liza.TheAnnihilationofInertia:DostoevskyandMetaphysics.NorthwesternUP:1996.� BesyAnderson,NancyK.,ThePervertedIdealinDostoevsky’sTheDevils.NewYork:PeterLang,

1997.Apollonio,Carol,“TheDemonofDoubtandtheRevengeoftheNeglectedSon:Demons”in

Dostoevsky’sSecrets:ReadingAgainsttheGrain.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUP,2009.104-116.

Frank,Joseph.Dostoevsky:TheMiraculousYears,1865-1871.(London:RobsonBooks,1995)--onBesy,see396-498.

Leatherbarrow,William.Dostoevsky’sTheDevils:ACriticalCompanion.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUP,1999.

----------.‘TheDevils’Vaudeville:“Decoding”theDemonicinDostoevsky’sTheDevilsinRussianLiteratureanditsDemons.Ed.PamelaDavidson.NewYork&Oxford:BerghahnBooks,2000.

� General/bothtextsLeatherbarrow,William.CambridgeCompaniontoDostoevskii.Cambridge:CUP,2002.Martinsen,DeborahA.andOlgaMairorova(eds.),DostoevskyinContext.Cambridge:CUP,

2016.Scanlan,James.DostoevskytheThinker.Ithaca:CornellUP,2002.Ward,BruceK.,Dostoevsky’sCritiqueoftheWest:TheQuestforEarthlyParadise.Waterloo&

Ontario:WilfridLaurierUP,1986.Williams,Rowan.Dostoevsky:Language,Faith,andFiction.Waco,TX:BaylorUP,2008.

~~~~~~~~~B4:Chkehov:ProseandPlays(Lent)CoretextsProse:Any–butthefollowingaresuggested.Thestoriesmarked*aresuggestedfortheattentionofPartIB,OptionAstudents.

Earlystories:

*‘Smert’chinovnika’ *‘Sobytie’ *’Spat’khochetsia’*‘Meliuzga’ *’Toska’*‘Eger’’ *’Van’ka’*‘Aniuta’ *’Vragi’

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Novella:‘Step’’Laterstories: ‘Skuchnoeistoriia’ ‘Palatanomer6’

‘Chernyimonakh’ ‘Student’‘Domsmezzaninom’ ‘Chelovekvfutliare’‘Kryzhovnik’ ‘Oliubvi’*‘Damassobachkoi’ ‘Annanashee’

Plays: Chaika(1896)

DiadiaVania(1899)Trisestry(1901)

Vishnev’yisad(1904)

SecondaryReading(General)Gottlieb,Vera,andPaulAllain.TheCambridgeCompaniontoChekhov.Cambridge:Cambridge

UniversityPress.2000.Ch.1-3forbackground.Karlinsky,Simon.“Introduction:TheGentleSubversive”inLettersofAntonChekhov.New

York:Harper&Row,1973.1-32.[ReprintedinWellek,RenéandNonnaD.Wellek.Chekhov,NewPerspectives.EnglewoodCliffs,N.J.:Prentice-Hall,1984.31-68.

Loehlin,JamesN.TheCambridgeIntroductiontoChekhov.Cambridge:CUP,2010.SecondaryReadingsonProseChudakov,A.P.Chekhov’sPoetics.Trans.JannieCruiseandDonaldDragt.AnnArbor,1983.Eikhenbaum,Boris.“ChekhovatLarge”inJackson(ed.)Chekhov:ACriticalEssays(Englewood

Cliffs,N.J.:PrenticeHall,1967),21-31.Finke,Michael.‘Chekhov’s“TheSteppe”:AMetapoeticJourney’inMetapoesis:TheRussian

TraditionfromPushkintoChekhov(Durham&London:DukeUP,1995),134-66.Hagan,John."Chekhov'sFictionandtheIdealof'Objectivity',PMLA81:409-417Jackson,RobertLouis.“Introduction”inReadingChekhov'sText,ed.RobertLouisJackson,

NorthwesternUP,1993.[+seeotheressaysinthisvolume.]Katyk-Lewis,N."FragmentasanimpressionistelementintheartofChekhov."Russian

Literature,January2000,47(1):61-69.[discussesanumberofstories–butusefulforitsgeneralideas]

Popkin,Cathy.ThePragmaticsofInsignificance:Chekhov,Zoshchenko,Gogol.Stanford:StanfordUP,1993.

Story-specific,astitlesindicate,withtheexceptionofthefirstpiecewhichisquitewidelyapplicable:Baehr,S.L."TheLocomotiveandtheGiant:PowerinChekhov's`AnnaontheNeck'."Slavic

andEastEuropeanJournal39(1995):29-37.Flath,CarolA.“ArtandIdleness:Chekhov’s‘TheHousewiththeMezzanine’”,TheRussian

Review,58(July1999),456-66.Flath,CarolA."TheLimitstotheFlesh:SearchingfortheSoulinChekhov's'ABoringStory'."

SlavicandEastEuropeanJournal,vol.41,no.2(1997):271-86.

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Freedman,John.‘NarrativeTechniqueandtheArtofStory-TellinginAntonChekhov's"LittleTrilogy"’,SouthAtlanticReview,Vol.53,No.1(Jan.,1988),pp.1-18.

Knapp,Liza."FearandPityin'WardSix':ChekhovianCatharsis."InR.L.Jackson,ed.,ReadingChekhov'sText.Evanston:NorthwesternUniversityPress,1993,pp.145-56.

Shestov,Lev."AntonChekhov:CreationfromtheVoid."InChekhovandOtherEssays.NewintroductionbySidneyMonas.AnnArbor,1966.[AtranslationofShestov'sphilosophicalessay"AntonChekhov:Tvorchestvoiznichego"(1905)withaninterestingdiscussionof"Skuchnaiaistoriia"andotherworks.]

Asforothertexts,theNORTONCRITICALEDITION(2014)containsausefulsetofcriticalpieces:AntonChekhov'sSelectedStories:TextsoftheStories,ComparisonofTranslations,LifeandLetters,Criticism,editedbyPopkin,Cathy,NewYork,NY:Norton,2014.SecondaryReadingsonDrama:Borny,Geoffrey.InterpretingChekhov.Canberra:ANUEPress,2006.Magarshack,David.ChekhovtheDramatist.NewYork:Hill&Wang,1960.Peace,RichardArthur.Chekhov:AStudyoftheFourMajorPlays.NewHaven ;London:Yale

UniversityPress,1983.Pitcher,Harvey.“TheChekhovPlay”inWellek,Chekhov,NewPerspectives,69-106.Rayfield,Donald.UnderstandingChekhov:ACriticalStudyofChekhov’sProseandDrama.

RussianStudies.Bristol:BristolClassicalPress,1999.Senelick,Laurence.TheChekhovTheatre:ACenturyofthePlaysinPerformance.Cambridge:

CUP,1997.Wellek,RenéandNonnaD.Wellek.Chekhov,NewPerspectives.EnglewoodCliffs,N.J.:

Prentice-Hall,1984.OnTheSeagull:Kaminer,Jenny.‘TheBurdenofSuperfluity:ReconsideringFemaleHeroisminChekhov'sThe

Seagull’InRussianWritersandtheFindeSiècle:TheTwilightofRealism,editedbyKatherineBowersandAniKokobobo.Cambridge:CambridgeUP,2015.Pp.126-141.

Scott,Virginia.‘LifeinArt:AReadingof"TheSeagull"’,EducationalTheatreJournal,Vol.30,No.3(Oct.,1978),pp.357-367.

OnTheCherryOrchard:Baehr,Stephen.“TheMachineinChekhov'sGarden:ProgressandPastoralintheCherry

Orchard,”SlavicandEastEuropeanJournal43:1(1999).Evdokimova,Svetlana.“What'sSoFunnyaboutLosingOne'sEstate,orInfantilismin‘The

CherryOrchard’”,SlavicandEastEuropeanJournal44(Winter2000)Jackson,RobertLouis.‘WhatTimeIsIt?WhereAreWeGoing?”Chekhov’sTheCherry

Orchard:TheStoryofaVerb’inCloseEncounters.Boston:AcademicStudiesPress,2013.130-152.

Muza,Anna.‘TheMarriageofFigaro,theMarriageofLopakhin:TheHero’sRevolt’inApollonioandBrintlinger(eds.).Chekhovforthe21stCentury.(Bloomington:Indiana,2012),167-79.

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