28688 - Russian literature I (second language) L

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)

Learning outcomes

The student knows the basic elements of Russian Culture and Civilization, he/she is able to identify them in specific literary texts and is able to work out autonomously further cultural and literary knowledge and competences of a higher level applying them to other, specific literary texts.

Course contents

The course aims at offering the students the methodological instruments they need to analyse literary and historical texts or essays. A critical methodology aimed at developing individual attitudes and offering a polyvalent education will be used.

Readings/Bibliography

Puškin A., Evgenij Onegin.

Puškin A., Il prigioniero del Caucaso.

Ju. LOTMAN, Il testo e la storia. L'"Evgenij Onegin" di Puškin, Il Mulino, Bologna 1985 (cap. I-V).

N. GOGOL', Il cappotto.

A.EJCHENBAUM,Come è fatto il cappotto di Gogol'.

A. WALICKI, Belinskij e l'occidentalismo degli anni Quaranta, in Storia della civiltà letteraria russa, UTET, vol. I, pp. 540-542.

F. DOSTOEVSKIJ, Povera genta.

F. DOSTOEVSKIJ, La mite.

M. BACHTIN, Dostoevskij, Einaudi, Torino.

Ju. TYNJANOV, Gogol'e Dostoevskij, Per una teoria della parodia.

L. TOLSTOJ, Felicità familiare.

L. TOLSTOJ, La sonata a Kreutzer.


Teaching methods

During the course we will start from reading and analysing the works of the cited authors and then we will pass to the examination of some critical essays with the aim of laying stress on the multiplicity of possible interpretations of a literary text

Assessment methods

The oral test will be aimed at evaluating the student's theoretical knowledge concerning the treated authors and critics, as well as his/her critic ability in reading a literay text.

Teaching tools

Photocopies and material available on the e-learning site

Office hours

See the website of Maria Zalambani