20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE A 16.7 2nd year, 16.7 3rd year Associate Professor J Armstrong. Intermediate Russian; preferably Russian Literature & Society A or B First semester A 2-hour seminar and a tutorial. By the end of the subject, students should be able to demonstrate:
  • a thorough understanding of the cultural development of Russia and the Soviet Union to the period of glasnost;
  • the ability to form critical opinions regarding the significance and value of Russian texts in a national and global context, to discuss these in a scholarly way and to communicate their knowledge to the surrounding community.
A study of Russian writing from the Revolution to 1985, centred on a core of novels, with background reading in literary theory, Soviet realism and the relationship between the society and its literature. At least parts of all texts will be studied in Russian. A 3000-word essay and a 2-hour textual paper. Brown The Portable 20th C Russian Reader Penguin Bulgakov The Master and Margarita. Sholokhov Virgin Soil Upturned Penguin Zamyatin We Departmental Collated Handout. 20TH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE A 16.7 Associate Professor J Armstrong. Intermediate Russian; preferably Russian Literature & Society A or B First semester. A 2-hour seminar and a tutorial each week By the end of the subject, students should be able to demonstrate:
  • a thorough understanding of the cultural development of Russia and the Soviet Union to the period of glasnost;
  • the ability to form critical opinions regarding the significance and value of Russian texts in a national and global context, to discuss these in a scholarly way and to communicate their knowledge to the surrounding community.
A study of Russian writing from the Revolution to 1985, centred on a core of novels, with background reading in literary theory, Soviet realism and the relationship between the society and its literature. At least parts of all texts will be studied in Russian. A 3000-word essay and a 2-hour textual paper. Brown The Portable 20th C Russian Reader Penguin Bulgakov The Master and Margarita. Sholokhov Virgin Soil Upturned Penguin Zamyatin We Departmental Collated Handout.