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1 Russ 689 Thurs 2:30 – 4:20 Hgs 217 Мы Для Новой Красоты Нарушаем Все Законы Прест RUSS 689 RUSSIAN SYMBOLIST POETRY GRADUATE SEMINAR FALL 2013 THURS 2:30 – 4:20 HGS 217B MARIJETA BOZOVIC Мы для новой красоты Нарушаем все законы Преступаем все черты. — Дмитрий Мережковский DESCRIPTION: This graduate seminar explores Russian Symbolist poetry in cultural and international contexts. We will study the philosophical foundations (Nietzsche, Solovyov); the preoccupation with various temporalities (modernity); the longing for total art (Wagner) bounded by lyric form; aestheticism; utopianism; decadence; and other topics. Our readings include the works of Vladimir Solovyov, Valery Briusov, Konstantin Balmont, Fedor Sologub, Zinnaida Gippius, Mikhail Kuzmin, Viacheslav Ivanov, Andrei Bely, and Aleksandr Blok—as well as of “post-Symbolists” Nikolai Gumilyov, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Marina Tsvetaeva. Our approach emphasizes prosody, genre, and medium as well as the dissemination of ideas across media and cultures; our weekly practices will involve close reading, research, theoretical reframing, and ongoing collaborative participation and presentations. REQUIREMENTS: Seminar requirements include challenging reading assignments and excellent preparation for each discussion. You will be asked to post a close reading, response, or intervention (approximately 4–6 paragraphs; other media also welcome) based on the readings prior to each session; we will experiment with social media platforms as part of our ongoing collaborative attempt to enhance and extend discussion—and to think about medium and technology even as we try to find creative ways to misuse the latter. Other assignments include short presentations on meter and translations; a topic proposal for the final course assignment; and a final paper written in conference presentation form. We will deliver these papers in an informal setting at the end of the semester: the goal is for each student to leave the course with a ready original, beautifully written, and practiced conference paper on Russian poetry. TOPICS: Aug. 29 Symbolist moment; Symbolist strains • Edmund Wilson, Axel’s Castle, “Symbolism” [3-21] • Charles Russell, Poets, Prophets & Revolutionaries, “Theory of the Avant-Garde” [3-38] • Charles Baudelaire, "Correspondances” • Walter Benjamin, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” [313-355] • Olga Sedakova, Poetika «Наследство Некрасова в русской поэзии» [246-277] • Bely, “Символизм как миропонимание” [15 pp.] • Avril Pyman, A History of Russian Symbolism, “Prologue” [1-16] 1 Sep. 5 Prosody and form • M.L. Gasparov, A History of European Versification, “Introduction” + “Russian Syllabic Verse” sections [1-10; 225-237] • M.L. Gasparov, Метр и смысл, «Введение» + «Глава 2: По вечерам над ресторанами…» [9-18; 33-49] • Barry Scherr, Russian Poetry: Meter, Rhythm, Rhyme, selections [1-20; 40-125; 126-192, esp. section on dol’nik] *skim • Yuri Lotman, О поэтах и поэзии, «Структура стиха» [44-80; 107-127] • Assignment: scan and analyze a poem of your choice; translate it into English—in meter Sep. 12 Solovyov • Solovyov, «Милый друг, иль ты не видишь…», «У царицы моей…», «Панмонголизм», «Три встречи» • Solovyov, Смысл любви [30 pp.] • Olga Matich, Erotic Utopia, “The Meaning of Meaning of Love” [57-88] • Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought, “Vladimir Soloviev and Metaphysical Idealism” [371-394] • Pyman, “The new poetry in St. Petersburg” [38-55] • Irina Paperno, “The Meaning of Art: Symbolist Theories,” Creating Life: Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism [13-23] • Bernice Rosenthal, New Myth, New World, “Symbolists” [33-50] Sep. 19 Sologub, Gippius, Kuzmin • Sologub, «Пилигрим», «Змий, царящий над вселенною…», «Чертовы качели», «Мы—плененные звери», «Я один в безбрежном мире…», «Там, за стеною…» • Gippius, «Песня», «Цветы ночи», «Электричество», «Пауки», «А потом?», «Швея», «Она», «Нелюбовь» • Kuzmin, Александрийские песни (Выступление и отрывки), «Бывают мгновенья», «Вы думаете, я влюбленный поэт?», «Где слог найду…», «Мои предки» • Tomas Venclova, “К демонологии русского символизма» [32-58] • Pyman, “The Sophia-myth and the theme of Apocalypse” [226-242] • Matich, “Introduction” + “The Case of Zinaida Gippius” [3-27; 162-211] • Rachel Polonsky, “Kuzmin’s English Style,” English Literature and Russian Aesthetic Renaissance [170-187] • Luc Beaudoin, “Reflections in the Mirror: Iconographic Homoeroticism,” Rereading Russian Poetry [161-182] • George Bataille, Introduction + selections [1-34; 64-112; 237-247] • Matei Calinescu, The Five Faces of Modernity, “The Idea of Decadence” [151-195] * Sep. 26 Balmont, Briusov • Balmont, «Челн томленья», «Я в этот мир пришел…», «Я—изысканность русской медлительной речи…», «Ковер», «Снежинка», «Я мечтою ловил…», «Камыши», «Лебедь», «Уроды», «Песня араба» • Briusov, «Творчество», «Моисей», «Предчувствие», «Юному поэту», «Я», «Я люблю», «Демоны пыли», «Грядущие гунны», «Конь блед», «Сухие листья», «О, закрой…» • Briusov, «Ключи тайн» [10 pp.] • Pyman, “Russian Symbolism Acquires a Name” [56-90] • J.D. Grossman, “Valery Briusov and Nina Petrovskaia,” Creating Life [122-150] • Vladimir Markov, “Balmont: A Reappraisal,” Slavic Review (1969) [221-264] • Polonsky, “Balmont’s Shelley and the sacred books of the East” [69-114] • Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, “Past, Present, Future” [36-108] * 2 Oct. 3 Media and Total art • Pyman, “Collective Creation” [91-122] • Camilla Gray, The Russian Experiment in Art, selections [29-67] • John Bowlt, Art, Life, and Culture of the Silver Age, selections [161-294] • Rosamund Bartlett, Wagner in Russia, “Wagner and Russian Modernism,” [65-116] • Ada Steinberg, Word and Music in the Novels of Andrei Bely, “On the relationship between music and poetry,” [3-46] • film: Evgenii Bauer, Dying Swan (1917) • McReynolds, "The Silent Movie Melodrama: Evgenii Bauer Fashions the Heroine's Self," in Self and Story in Russian History [120-140] Oct. 10 Ivanov • Ivanov, «Альпийский рог», «Красота», «Зимние сонеты», «Римские сонеты I», «От кликов ночью лунной…», «La Superba», «Менада», «На башне», «Язык», «Острова—слова», «Цикады», «Кочевники красоты» • Ivanov, «Две стихии в современном символизме» [18 pp.] • Victor Erlich, “The Symbolist Ambience and Vyacheslav Ivanov,” in Vyacheslav Ivanov: Poet, Critic, Philosopher [14-24] • Alexis Klimoff, “The First Sonnet in V. Ivanov’s Roman Cycle,” Ivanov [123-133] • Markov, “V. Ivanov the Poet: A Tribute and a Reappraisal,” Ivanov [49-58] • Vasily Rudich, “V. Ivanov and Classical Antiquity,” Ivanov [275-289] • Pamela Davidson, “V. Ivanov and Dante,” Ivanov [147-161] • Michael Wachtel, Russian Symbolism and Literary Tradition, “Faust and Ivanov’s Conception of the Symbol” [62-77] • Wachtel, “Zhiznetvorchestvo” + “Beyond Translation: Novalis” [143-156; 157-180] Oct. 17 Bely • Bely, «На горах», «Пепел. Россия. Отчаянье», «Веселье на Руси», «Родине», «Маскарад», «Друзьям», «Хулиганская песенка», «Мой Друг», «Буря», «Асе (а-о)», «Серенада», «Золотое руно» • Bely, «Магия слов» + «Лирика и эксперимент» [15; 45 pp.] • Alexander Lavrov, “Bely and the Argonauts’ Mythmaking,” Creating Life [83-121] • Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope, “Wishful landscape” selections [820-37; 3-22; 41-2] • Pyman, “A glittering hell” [243-302] * Oct. 31 • Bely, Вторая симфония • Bely, «Формы искусства» [15 pp.] • Vladimir Alexandrov, Bely: The Major Symbolist Fiction, “Symphonies” [5-9; 26-46] • Hillary Fink, “Andrei Bely and Music of Bergsonian Duration,” SEEJ (1997) [287-302] • Sigmund Freud, “From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (‘Wolf Man’)” [27 pp.] • Assignment: Topic proposal for final papers and discussion Nov. 7 Blok • Blok, «Вольные мысли», «Предчувствую Тебя», «В ресторане», «Незнакомка», «Девушка пела в церковном хоре…», « Шаги Командора», «На островах», «Пляски смерти», «Равенна», «О доблестях, о подвигах, о славе…», «Разгораются тайные знаки…», «Выхожу я в темные храмы…», «Русь моя, жизнь моя», «Поднимались из тьмы погребов…», «Двойник», «Гармоника, гармоника», «Анне Ахматовой» • Lotman, «А.А. Блок. Анне Ахматовой» [211-220] • John McKay, Inscription and Modernity, “Kernels of the Acropolis” [140-152] • Richard Byrns, “The Artistic Worlds of Vrubel’ and Blok,” SEEJ (1979) [38-50] • Matich, “The Case of Alexander Blok” + “Blok’s Femme Fatale” [89-125; 126-161] 3 Nov. 14 • Blok, «Скифы» • Blok, Двенадцать • Irene Masing-Delic, Abolishing Death, “Aleksander Blok. The Twelve” [195-221] • John Garrard, “The Twelve: Blok’s Apocalypse,” Religion and Literature (2003) [45-72] • Mikhail Bakhtin, «Блок», Собрание сочинения [8 pp.] • Gary Saul Morrison & Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics, “Metalinguistics: The Dialogue of Authorship [121-171] * Nov. 21 No class (ASEEES conference) Dec. 5 Post-Symbolist • Blok, «Без божества, без вдохновенья. Цех акмеистов» [7 pp.] • Gumilev, «Наследие символизма и акмеизма» [3 pp.] • Gumilev, «Слово», «Жираф», «Озеро Чад», «Волшебная скрипка», «Заблудившийся трамвай» • Mandelstam, «Слово и культура» + «О природе слова» [5; 13 pp.] • Mandelstam, «Возьми на радость…», «Дано мне тело», «Silentium», «Айя София», «Notre Dame», «Золотистого меда струя…», «Сестры—тяжесть и нежность», «В Петербурге мы сойдемся снова» • Tsvetaeva, Стихи к Блоку [esp. first 6] • Akhmatova, Поэма без героя TBA Final meeting and paper presentation 4 .
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