Course teached as: B004679 - LETTERATURA RUSSA 1 (12 CFU) 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND INTERCULTURAL STUDIES Curriculum STUDI LINGUISTICI, LETTERARI E INTERCULTURALI
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
This course will provide a methodological framework for the discipline as well as an overview of the 19th Century Russian Literature (from N. Karamzin to A. Chekhov):
- A. Pushkin. Poetry and Prose.
- N. Gogol’s Petersburg Tales and Dead Souls.
- M. Lermontov. A Hero of Our Time.
- The Russian Novel. I. Goncharov, F. Dostoevsky, L. Tolstoy.
- A. Chekhov’s Short Stories; The Cherry Orchard
G. Carpi, Storia della letteratura russa, Carocci, Roma 2010
Learning Objectives
This course aims to provide basic knowledge of 19th Century Russian Literature and tools for its study.
Skills:
- basic knowledge about the characteristics of literary texts;
- acquisition of certain basic concepts and specific terminology used in the critical essays on 19th Century Russian Literature;
- basic notions about the specific context of Russian culture in 19th Century.
- knowledge of the main bibliographical tools for studying this discipline.
Behaviour:
- encouragement to make intelligent use of the university structure and course;
- encouragement to participate intellectually and benefit from a fruitful approach to the student-professor relationship;
- encouragement to share and make responsible use of the study resources provided by the course.
Prerequisites
NO
Teaching Methods
Lectures are frontal; they include the analysis of selected passages (in Russian and in Italian translation), wherein various critical approaches are taken into account.
Further information
NO
Type of Assessment
NO
Course program
TEXTS:
N. Karamzin, La povera Lisa [Poor Liza] (transl. and ed. by A. Pasquinelli), Tranchida, Palermo 2003. A. Pushkin, Evgenij Onegin. Romanzo in versi [Eugene Onegin. Novel in Verse] (transl. and ed. by P. Pera), Marsilio, Venezia 2005; A. Pushkin, I racconti del defunto Ivan Petrovich Belkin [The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin], in Id., Romanzi e racconti (ed. by S. Vitale, transl. by A. Alleva), Garzanti, Milano 1990 (otherwise A. Pushkin, Il cavaliere di bronzo [The Bronze Horseman], in Id., Lirica [a c. di E. Lo Gatto], Sansoni, Firenze 1968, pp. 465-481). M. Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time (transl. by P. Pera), Mondadori, Milano 2009. N. Gogol, La prospettiva Nevskij [Nevsky Prospekt], Il cappotto [The Overcoat], Memorie di un pazzo [The Diary of a Madman], in Id. I racconti di Pietroburgo [Petersburg Tales] (ed. by S. Vitale, transl. by A. Alleva), Garzanti, Milano 1990 (otherwise N. Gogol’, Le anime morte [Dead Souls], Feltrinelli, Milano 2009). I. Goncharov, Oblomov (transl. by E. Lo Gatto), Einaudi, Torino 2006. F. Dostoevsky, Delitto e castigo [Crime and Punishment] (ed. by S. Prina), Mondadori, Milano 2009. L. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (ed. by S. Vitale), Garzanti, Milano 1997. A. Chekhov, Il grasso e il magro [The Fat Man and The Thin Man], L'angoscia [Misery], Lo studente [The Student], Dushechka [The Darling], La signora col cagnolino [The Lady with the Lapdog], in Id., Racconti (ed. by F. Malcovati), 2 voll., Garzanti, Milano 2004 (otherwise A. Chekhov, Il giardino dei ciliegi [The Cherry Orchard], (transl. and ed. by C. Strada Janovič), Marsilio, Venezia 2001).
CRITICAL ESSAYS:
Ju. Lotman, Karamzin, in Storia della civiltà letteraria russa (ed. by M. Colucci & R. Picchio), Torino, UTET, 1997, v. I, pp. 317-324. Ju. Lotman, Puškin, in Storia della civiltà letteraria russa (ed. by M. Colucci & R. Picchio), Torino, UTET, 1997, v. I, pp. 404-433. P. Pera, Introduzione, in Aleksandr Pushkin, Evgenij Onegin. Romanzo in versi (ed. by P. Pera), Marsilio, Venezia 2005, pp. 9-61. V. Nabokov, Postfazione, in M. Lermontov, Un eroe del nostro tempo (transl. by P. Pera), Mondadori, Milano 2009, pp. 205-14. V. Nabokov, Nikolaj Gogol’ (Anime morte. Il cappotto), in Id., Lezioni di letteratura russa, Garzanti, Milano 1994, pp. 39-88. V. Strada, I. Goncharov e il suo Oblomov , in Id., Le veglie della ragione, Einaudi, Torino 1986, pp. 78-90. G.P. Piretto, Rodion Romanovich, pietroburghese, in Id., Da Pietroburgo a Mosca, Guerini studio, Milano 1990, pp. 41-52; G.P. Piretto, A Pietroburgo in un quartiere senza porte: elementi spaziali e intreccio in Delitto e castigo di F.M. Dostoevskij, in Id., Da Pietroburgo a Mosca, Guerini studio, Milano 1990, pp. 53-65. V. Nabokov, L.Tolstoj. Anna Karenina, in Id., Lezioni di Letteratura russa, pp. 169-271. V. Strada, Anton Cechov, in Storia della letteratura russa. Il Novecento (ed. by E. Etkind et al.), vol. 1, Einaudi, Torino 1989, pp. 45-71.
HANDBOOK:
G. Carpi, Storia della letteratura russa, Carocci, Roma 2010.