- Docente: Maria Zalambani
- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/14
- Language: Russian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Translation for Special Purposes and for Publishing (cod. 0429)
Learning outcomes
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.
Course contents
The course aims at analysing the cultural life in Soviet Union during the so called period of "Stagnation" (1964-1985). In particular we will study the institution of censorship, meant both as a repressive instrument, and a "creative" instrument, used by the Soviet state in the making of homo sovieticus. Soviet censorship infact exercised a double function: the first operated as a procedure of exclusion, by the possibilities it excluded a priori (self-censorship and preliminary censorship), the second limited the means of expression, preestablishing the possibilities of invention which were available. The result was the long-lasting domination of Socialist Realism.
Readings/Bibliography
Bljum A., Kak eto delalos' v Leningrade. Cenzura v gody ottepeli, zastoja i perestrojki 1953-1991, SPb: Akademičeskij proekt, 2005.
Cenzura v Sovetskom Sojuze 1918-1991, Censura v Sovetskom Sojuze 1918-1991, Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2004.
Igrunov V.V. (a cura di), Antologija samizdata, Moskva: MIGPI, 2005.
Kozlov V., Mironenko S. (a cura di), Kramola. Inakomyslie v SSSR pri Chrušč ëve i Brežneve 1953-1982 gg., Moskva: Materik, 2005.
Krečmar D., Politika i kul'tura pri Brežneve, Andropove, Černenko1970-1985 gg., Moskva: AIRO-XX, 1997.
Bourdieu P., Le regole dell'arte, Milano: Il Saggiatore, 2005.
Pierre Bourdieu, La distinzione. Critica sociale del gusto, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001
Teaching methods
Methodological instruments necessary to analyse literary and historical texts and essays of the last two decades of Socialist realism will be offered, and through a critical methodology the analysed texts will be placed in the specific cultural context of the time.
Assessment methods
The exam will consist of an oral test focused on the texts cited in the bibliography and on the notes of the lessons.
Office hours
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