Time Schedule:
Galya Diment
RUSS 543
Seattle Campus
Analysis of Russian prose fiction. Selected authors and topics.
Class description
This is a graduate seminar, with all readings in Russian and discussion in both, Russian and English. The topic is NABOKOV'S RUSSIAN NOVELS, 1925-1937.
Student learning goals
Understanding Nabokov
Understanding Russian emigre literature in the 1920s and 1930s
Understanding European Modernism
Developing more fluency in reading fairly complicated texts in Russian
Further developing research skills
Further developing writing skills
General method of instruction
Seminar. Brief lectures but mostly discussions.
Recommended preparation
The seminar is for Slavic L&L graduate students but advanced majors or students from other departments with 4 years of Russian or native or near native fluency in Russian can enroll with the permission of the instructor.
Class assignments and grading
Here's a preliminary syllabus:
RUSSIAN 543. GRADUATE SEMINAR in VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Prof. Galya Diment
WEEK 1 & 2
Mashen'ka, Glava 11 Drugikh beregov, "Vozvrashchenie Chorba"
WEEK 3 & 4
Zashchita Luzhina, Glava 2-1, 2, Glava 6, Glava 13-4 Drugikh beregov.
WEEK 5 & 6
Otchaianie, "Oblako, ozero, bashnia"
WEEK 7 & 8
Priglashenie na kazn', "Izobretenie val'sa"
WEEK 9 & 10
Glavy iz Dara i Drugikh beregov
Final: 15-20 pp. Research Paper in English
In class discussions; possible reports; final paper at the end (see above).
