- Docente: Martina Morabito
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/21
- Language: Russian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Languages and Technologies for Intercultural Communication (cod. 5979)
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from Feb 15, 2024 to May 03, 2024
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
"Rasskaz and Povest': Short Forms in Russian Literature"
The course aims to examine the short story form within Russian literature from the late 18th century to the present day. Is it possible to construct an "alternative" canon of Russian literature that disregards the "great novels"? How do the narrative and linguistic structures of 19th-century long novels, such as those by Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, change when they write short stories? To which European literary analogue does the form of povest', a term untranslatable into other languages, bear the closest resemblance? What are the peculiarities of contemporary Russian children's stories? What contributions do oral and folk storytelling make? Drawing primarily on formalist studies and, as needed, employing the most suitable critical methodology for analysis, the course will deeply explore selected texts through close reading, taking into account Italian translations.
Readings/Bibliography
Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales (1842-1847)
C.A. Moser, The Russian Short Story. A Critical History
L. Parts, The Russian Twentieth-Century Short Story: a Critical Companion
L. Michael O’Toole, Structure, style and interpretation in the Russian short story
D. Ugresič, La volpe
Adalgisa Mingati, “Forma breve e narrazione a cornice: Le ‘serate’ o ‘veglie’ nella prosa russa (1770-1840)”
Danilo Cavaion, Marialuisa Ferrazzi, Olga A. Krivosceieva Motta, “Per una storia della povest’ russa: secoli XVII e XVIII”
B. Ejchenbaum, studio su Un eroe del nostro tempo
V. Šklovskij, La struttura della novella e del romanzo
Testi letterari:
Karamzin, The poor Liza
Puškin, Belkin's Tales
Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
Gogol’, Christmas Eve
The Diary of a Madman
Turgenev, Memoirs of a hunter
Dostoevskij, White Nights
Tolstoj, Kreutzer Sonata
Three Deaths
Cholstomer
After the Ball
Čechov, Ward n. 6
Goosebumps
Sleepy
Babel’, Red Cavalry
Nabokov, A guide to Berlin
Gor’kij, 26 and 1
Bulgakov, Notes on cuff
Pil’njak, A story about how to write stories
Petruševskaja, Tales after tales
Desnickaja, Litvina, The Apartment
Teaching methods
Lectures and laboratory activities for the application of critical theories. To achieve the learning outcomes, frontal lessons, practical exercises, class discussions, and readings in the original language are planned.
Assessment methods
The assessment test is oral and will be aimed at evaluating the student's knowledge of the texts presented and discussed in class, as well as his/her capacity for critical reading of a literary text.
For the evaluation the ECTS Grading Scale will be used:
A [≈ 30/30 – 30/30 e lode]: outstanding performance with only minor errors;
B [≈ 27/30 – 29/30]: above the average standard but with some errors;
C [≈ 24/30 – 26/30]: generally sound work with a number of notable errors;
D [≈ 21/30 – 23/30]: fair but with significant shortcomings;
E [≈ 18/30 – 20/30]: performance meets the minimum criteria;
F [≈ 15/30 – 17/30]: Fail – some more work required before the credit can be awarded;
FX [≈ 0/30 – 14/30]: Fail – considerable further work is required.
Teaching tools
Moodle
Office hours
See the website of Martina Morabito