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RUSS 608 Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature Instructor: B RUSS 608 Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature Instructor: B. Grigoryan Course Description A comprehensive survey of the main trends in eighteenth-century Russian literature. Topics of interest include: normative aesthetics; generic imports and generic diversity; the evolution of the Russian literary language; discourses of imperial statehood in literary, visual and material culture; the status of the writer, literary and political subjectivity. Key figures under consideration include Trediakovsky, Lomonosov, Sumarokov, Novikov, Fonvizin, Derzhavin, Radishchev and Karamzin, among others. Course Requirements - Active participation in discussions - 1 in-class presentation prepared in consultation with the instructor - Weekly posts to the Forum* - 1 take-home final exam * Instructions for posting to the Forum: It is essential to begin formulating your thoughts about each week‘s assignment as you read in preparation for class. To this end, I encourage you to mark up the texts as you read, highlight passages you find particularly striking or difficult, write comments in the margins. In addition to this, I ask that you take part in our online Forum. (You‘ll find it on the classesv2 site.) These assignments are meant to prompt you to think formally about the texts before you arrive in the classroom. Each post should be approximately 1-1.5 pages single-spaced and should consist of 1) a close reading of a short passage drawn from the primary text and 2) a brief and articulate response to the issues raised by the required secondary readings. On most occasions, I will suggest specific passages for the close reading portion of the assignment. Conributions to the Forum are due 24 hours before each class meeting. You may miss up to two without penalty. Schedule of Meetings 1) The Emergence of ―Modern‖ Russian Poetry; Versification Reform Primary texts: Феофан Прокопович, «За могилою рябою», «О суетный человече, рабе неключимый» Василий Тредиаковский, Новый и краткий способ к сложению российских стихов (1735, 1752 – excerpts) Тредиаковский, «Ода торжественная о сдаче города Гданска» (1734, 1752) Михайло Ломоносов, «Ода блаженныя памяти государыне императрице Анне Иоанновне на победу над турками и татарами и на взятие Хотина 1739 года» Ломоносов, «Письмо о правилах российского стихотворства» Тредиаковский, «Эпистола от Российския поэзии к Аполлину» Александр Сумароков, «Две Эпистолы» (О русском языке, о стихотворстве) Required Secondary Readings: 1. Irina Reyfman, Vasilii Trediakovsky: The Fool of the “New” Russian Literature (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990), chapter 3, ―Criticism, parody, and Myth,‖ pp. 70-131. 2. G. A. Gukovskii, "O russkom klassitsizme," Poetika, 5 (1929), pp. 21-65. 3. Mikhail Leont'evich Gasparov, Ocherk istorii russkogo stikha. Metrika. Ritmika. Strofika (Moscow: "Nauka," 1984), chapter 1, pp. 33-40. 4. A. A. Iliushin, "Sillabicheskaia sistema v istorii russkogo stikha," in Slavianskoe barokko. Istoriko-kul'turnye problemy epokhi (Moscow: "Nauka," 1979), pp. 316-334. 2) Empire and Court Life: The Ceremonial Ode I Primary texts: Михайло Ломоносов, «Ода блаженныя памяти государыне императрице Анне Иоанновне на победу над турками и татарами и на взятие Хотина 1739 года» (please re-read carefully!) Михайло Ломоносов, «Ода на день восшествия на престол Елизаветы Петровны, 1747» Василий Петров, «Ода на великолепный карусель, представленный в Санкт-Петербурге 1766 года» Василий Петров, «Ода на войну с турками» (all poetry on rvb) Required secondary readings: 1. James von Geldern, ―The Ode as a Performative Genre‖ (in Slavic Review, Vol. 50, No. 4, Winter, 1991) (pdf on classesv2) 2. Iurii Tynianov, "Oda kak oratorskii zhanr," in his Poetika, literatura, kino (Moscow: "Nauka," 1977), pp. 227-252. (SRR – non- circulating) 3. Harsha Ram, The Imperial Sublime, pp.1-81 (pdf on classesv2) 4. Recommended: Пантеон российских писателей XVIII века // Ломоносов + Петров (pdf) 3) Empire and Court Life: The Ceremonial Ode II (and the Epic Poem) Primary texts: Михаил Херасков, Россиада, песнь первая (rvb) Гаврила Державин, «Фелица», «Благодарность Фелице», «Видение Мурзы», «Изображение Фелицы», «На взятие Измаила», «Водопад» (rvb) **Add'l visual materials online** Required secondary readings: 1. Harsha Ram, The Imperial Sublime, p. 81-120. (pdf-classesv2) 2. Vera Proskurina, Mify imperii, excerpts (pdf-classesv2) 3. Recommended: Пантеон российских писателей XVIII века// Державин, Херасков 4) Lyric Subjects I: The Spiritual Ode and the Elegy Primary texts Ломоносов, «Утреннее размышление о божием величестве», «Вечернее размышление о божием величестве... », «Ода, выбранная из Иова» Державин, «Властителям и судьям», «Бог», «На смерть князя Мещерского» Радищев, «Почто, мой друг, почто» Required secondary readings: 1. Anna Lisa Crone, ―Derzhavin‘s ―Bog‖: The Internalization of Lomonosov‘s ‗Bozie velichestvo‘‖ Russian Literature 44.1 (July 1998), pp. 1-16. 2.Alexander Levitsky, ―Early Concepts of the Russian oda dukhovnaia,‖ in A. G. Cross, ed., Russia and the West in the Eighteenth Century (Newtonville, MA: Oriental Research Partners, 1983), pp. 185-91. 3. Г. А. Гуковский, «Элегия в XVIII веке» in his Русская поэзия XVIII века, pp. 48-102 (with focus on particular excerpts) 4. Л. Фризман, Жизнь лирического жанра. Русская элегия от Сумарокова до Некрасова, pp. 3-36. 5) Lyric Subjects II: (Horatian Tropes; «Private» Life and the Status of the Poet) Primary texts Horace, «Exegi monumentum» (in English + in Latin, both on classesv2) Ломоносов, «Я знак бессмертия себе воздвигнул» Державин, «Памятник» А.С. Пушкин, «Я памятник себе воздвиг нерукотворный» М. Н. Муравьев, «Сельская жизнь. К Афанасию Матвеевичу Брянчанинову» Державин, «Вельможа», «Приглашение к обеду», «К Евгению. Жизнь Званская», «Лебедь», «Река времен...» Николай Карамзин, «Послание к Дмитриеву» (all poetry on rvb) **Add'l visual materials online** Required secondary readings 1. Л. В. Пумпянский, «Об оде Пушкина «Памятник»» 2. Р. С. Войтехович, «Тема «exegi monumentum…» в русской литературе 18-19 веков» in Russian Text (19th century) and Antiquity, eds. Katalin Kroo and Peeter Torop (Budapest-Tartu: L‘Harmattan, 2008) 3. Иоахим Клейн, «Поэт-самохвал: «Памятник» Державина и статус поэта в русской культуре XVIII века» in Пути культурного импорта (М., 2005) 4. Anna Lisa Crone, The Daring of Derzhavin (excerpts) 5. Tatiana Smoliarova, ―The Promise of a Ruin: Gavrila Derzhavin‘s Archaic Modernity‖ in Julia Hell and Andreas Schonle, eds., Ruins of Modernity (Duke UP, 2010), pp.375-395. (pdf, v2) + Smoliarova, Zrimaia Lirika. Derzhavin, NLO 2011 – excerpts 6. Irina Reyfman, «Writing, ranks and the eighteenth-century Russian gentry experience» in Representing private lives of the Englightenment, ed. Andrew Kahn (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010) 6) Satirical Journalism: Novikov Primary Texts: «Полемика Новикова с Екатериной в 1769 году» «Орывок путешествия в*** И****** Т******» «Письма к Фалалею» (rvb) Required secondary readings: 1.Gary Marker, «The creation of journals and the profession of letters in the eighteenth century» in Literary Journals in Imperial Russia (ed. Deborah Martinsen, Cambridge UP, 1997), pp.11-37 2. И.З. Серман, «Рассказчик и автор в сатирических жанрах» in Русский классицизм. Поэзия. Драма. Сатира., pp. 247-268. 3. W. Gareth Jones, Nikolay Novikov. Enlightener of Russia, pp.1-81. 7) Comedy Primary Texts: Денис Фонвизин, «Недоросль» Recomended: Фонвизин, «Бригадир» Лукин, «Щепетильник» Капнист, «Ябеда» Required secondary readings: 1. Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theatre, chapters 1 and 2 2. Joachim Klein, Литература и политика: «Недоросль» Фонвизина (2003) in Пути культурного импорта 3. Ю. В. Стенник, «Фонвизин-сатирик и становление общественно- сатирической комедии («Бригадир» «Недоросль»)» in Russkaia satira XVIII века, pp. 291-348. 4. П. Н. Берков, История русской комедии (Ленинград, 1977), excerpts. 8) The Russian Literary Journey I: Radishchev Primary text: Александр Радищев, Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву (Read as much as you can, but read closely and slowly.) Required secondary readings: 1. Andreas Schoenle, Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2000), Chapter 1, ―Fashion and Genre,‖ section ―Radishchev‘s Journey and the Taste of Necessity.‖ 2. Andrew Kahn, ―Self and Sensibility in Radishchev‘s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow: Dialogism, Relativism, and the Moral Spectator‖ in Self and Story in Russian History, Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler, eds. (Cornell UP, 2000) SPRING RECESS 9) The Russian Literary Journey I: Radishchev (cont.) Primary text: Радищев, Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву Радищев, «Вольность» Required secondary readings: 1.Sarah Dickinson, ―Introduction‖ and ―Radishchev and Domestic Description (1767-1812)‖ in Breaking Ground: Travel and National Culture in Russia from Peter I to the Era of Pushkin (Rodopi: Amsterdam—NY, 2006), pp.13-25, 65-105. 2. Marcus Levitt, ―The Dialectic of Vision in Radishchev‘s Journey from Petersburg to Moscow” in Early Modern Russian Lettters: Texts and Contexts, pp. 398-413. 3. Ю. М. Лотман, Из комментариев к «Путешествию из Петербурга в Москву» in Собрание Сочинений Том 1 (Москва, ОГИ 2000), 115-127 10) The Russian Literary Journey II: Karamzin Primary text: Николай Карамзин, Письма русского путешественника Required secondary readings: 1. Ю.М. Лотман, Сотворение Карамзина, pp. 17-32, sections «Карамзин творит Карамзина» «Два путешественника» 2. Andrew Kahn, ―Karamzin‘s Discourses
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