RUS4016/RUS5016/COM5016 - Contemporary Russian Short Stories - 2022/23
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Week 1 – Introduction | ||
Weeks 2-4 Thematic Bloc 1: The Post-Modern and the Post-Soviet | ||
Required Readings Vladimir Sorokin, 'Passing Through' (English) Vladimir Sorokin, 'Passing Through'/Проездом (Russian) Further ReadingsTine Roesen and Dirk Uffelmann (eds),Vladimir Sorokin’s Languages, Slavica with the assistance of Katharina Kühn, Slavica Bergensia 11 . Bergen : Department of Russian Studies, University of Bergen , 2013 . |
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Required Readings Liudmila Petrushevskaya, 'Hygiene,' 'The New Robinson,' 51-74 Liudmila Petrushevskaya, 'Hygiene'/ Гигиена (Russian) Liudmila Petrushevskaya, 'The New Robinson'/Новые Робинзоны ((Russian) Further Readings Dalton Brown, Voices from the Void: the Genres of Liudmila Petrushevskaia, London: Berghahn, 2000 (excerpt). |
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Required Readings Pelevin, "Mid-Game' (see below, in folder) Пелевин, Миттельшпиль (Русский текст) Further Readings Elana Gomel, ‘Viktor Pelevin and Literary Postmodernism in Post-Soviet Russia,’Narrative, 2013 Oct; 21 (3): 309-321. |
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Weeks 5-8 Thematic Bloc 2: Rethinking Identities (Gender) | ||
Note - only read up to page 18 |
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Required Reading Ulitskaia, 'Gulia' (Russian text) Ulitskaia 'Gulia' English text (see pdf below in folder) Skomp, Elizabeth, & Sutcliffe, Benjamin. Ludmila Ulitskaya and the Art of Tolerance, Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2015, (excerpt, see pdf below in folder). Carol Adlam, Women in Russian Literature after Glasnost: Female Alternatives, London, 2005, 111-13. (see pdf below in folder) Further Reading Benjamin M. Sutcliffe, The Prose of Life: Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin, Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2009, 99-129 Helena Goscilo, ‘Inscribing the Women’s Body in Women’s Fiction: Stigmata and Stimulation,’ in Liudmilla Petrushevskaia, ‘Hygiene,’ ‘New Robinson’ in Mark Lipovetsky and Lisa Wakomiya (eds),Late and post-Soviet Russian literature: a reader, Book 1: Perestroika and the post-Soviet period, 2014,43-51. |
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Required Reading Anna Starobinets, ‘The Icarus Gland,’ in The Icarus Gland: And Other Stories of Metamorphoeses, trans. James Rann, London: Skyscraper, 2014, 13-34. (see pdf below) Starobinets, ‘The Icarus Gland’(Русский текст) Interview with Natalia Golysheva https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csww8t (last accessed 25.07.19) Elizabeth Kiem, ‘Anna Starobinets,’ https://themorningnews.org/article/anna-starobinets Ol´ga Lebedushkina, ‘Our New Gothic,’ Russian Studies in Literature, 46:4, (2010), 81-100. No Further Reading |
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Required Readings Slava Mogutin, ‘The Death of Misha Beautiful,’ Mark Lipovetsky and Lisa Wakomiya (eds), Late and post-Soviet Russian literature: a reader, Book 1: Perestroika and the post-Soviet period, 2014, 123-32. Slava Mogutin, ‘The Death of Misha Beautiful,’ alternative link Морутин, "Смерть Миши Бьютифул' (Русский текст) Brian Baer, ‘Russian Gay and Lesbian Literature,’ in E. McCallum & M. Tuhkanen (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, 421-37 (see pdf below) Further Readings Dan Healey, Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi, London: Bloomsbury, 2017, 93-110, 131-48. |
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Weeks 9-11 Thematic Bloc 3: Rethinking Identities (Nation, Space and Belonging) | Required Readings Vladimir Makanin, ‘Prisoner from the Caucasus,’ in Vladimir Makanin, The Loss: A Novella and Two Stories, trans. Byron Lindsey, Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1998, 117-54 (see pdf below). Маканин, "Кавказский пленный' (Русский текст) Bruce Grant, ‘The Good Russian Prisoner: Naturalizing Violence in the Caucasus Mountains,’ Cultural Anthropology, 20: 1 (2005), pp. 39-67. Mark Lipovetsky, ‘Makanin's Existential Myth in the Nineties: "Escape Hatch," "The Prisoner from the Caucasus" and Underground,’ in Routes of Passage: Essays on the Fiction of Vladimir Makanin, edited by Lindsey Byron and Tatiana Spekktor, Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 2008.97-107. Further Readings Anisimova, Irina, ‘The Post-Soviet 'Orient' in Stories by Vladimir Makanin and Liudmila Petrushevskaia,’Canadian Slavonic Papers Revue Canadienne des Slavistes 59:1-2, (2017), 1-20. ![]() Video Player is loading. This is a modal window. Playback on other Websites has been disabled by the video owner. |
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Required Readings Zakhar Prilepin, ‘Sergeant,’ in Sin, trans. Simon Patterson with Nina Chordas, Glasgow: Glagoslav, 2012 (pdf in folder) Прилепин, 'Сержант,' (Русский текст) Kukulin, Ilya. ‘Cultural Shifts in Russia Since 2010: Messianic Cynicism and Paradigms of Artistic Resistance,’ Russian Literature, 02/2018, Volume 96-98 Fedor, Julie, ‘Spinning Russia's 21st Century Wars,’ The RUSI journal, 163: 6, 18-27 Further Readings Serguei Oushakine, ‘(Post)Ideological Novel,’ Evgeny Dobrenko and Mark Lipovetsky, Russian Literature Since 1991, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 45-65. |
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Week 12 Essay Workshops | ||