Unit name | Pushkin and Russian Romanticism |
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Unit code | RUSS20037 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Basker |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
RUSS10001 or RUSS10012 |
Co-requisites | |
School/department | Department of Russian |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
An examination of literary works in a variety of genres (lyric and narrative poetry, short story, novel in verse, 'little tragedies') by Pushkin and such of his contemporaries as Lermontov, Odoevskii, Tiutchev and/or Zhukovskii. Works are considered both intrinsically in relation to theme and form, and more broadly in relation to the nature and aspirations of Russian Romanticism and the development of Russian Literature during the earlier part of the 'Classical' period: the second quarter of the nineteenth century, preceding the emergence of the great novelists covered in other Level I (year 2) units. Attention will be paid to the reading in Russian of selected texts, knowledge of which in the original will be tested as part of the unit's assessment.
Aims:
Successful students will:
Normally one lecture hour and one seminar hour per week across one teaching block (22 contact hours), often with student presentations. In units with a smaller number of students the lecture hour may be replaced by a second seminar or a workshop. Units involving film may require students to view films outside the timetabled contact hours.
One of the following:
a) A written assignment of 2000 words and a two hour exam (50% each)
b) A written assignment of 2000 words (25%) and a three hour exam (75%)
c) Two written assignments of 2000 words (50% each)
d) One written assignment of 4000 words
e) One oral presentation (25%) and one written assignment of 2500 words (75%)