Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 109 views

    Gothic-Fantastic Lectures Outline

    Uploaded by

    Anonymous v5EC9XQ30
    This 4-week lecture series will explore Russian Gothic-fantastic literature. It will define the Gothic-fantastic mode and discuss its relevance in a Russian context. Each week will focus on a major Russian author: Week 4 on the history of the genre, Week 5 on Gogol's works, Week 6 on Dostoyevsky's Petersburg Gothic writings, and Week 7 on Vladimir Odoevsky. Suggested primary readings include works by Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Krzhizhanovsky, Odoevsky, Pushkin and others.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content

    You might also like

    Gothic-Fantastic Lectures Outline

    Uploaded by

    Anonymous v5EC9XQ30
    109 views2 pages
    This 4-week lecture series will explore Russian Gothic-fantastic literature. It will define the Gothic-fantastic mode and discuss its relevance in a Russian context. Each week will focus on a major Russian author: Week 4 on the history of the genre, Week 5 on Gogol's works, Week 6 on Dostoyevsky's Petersburg Gothic writings, and Week 7 on Vladimir Odoevsky. Suggested primary readings include works by Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Krzhizhanovsky, Odoevsky, Pushkin and others.

    Original Description:

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    This 4-week lecture series will explore Russian Gothic-fantastic literature. It will define the Gothic-fantastic mode and discuss its relevance in a Russian context. Each week will focus on a major Russian author: Week 4 on the history of the genre, Week 5 on Gogol's works, Week 6 on Dostoyevsky's Petersburg Gothic writings, and Week 7 on Vladimir Odoevsky. Suggested primary readings include works by Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Krzhizhanovsky, Odoevsky, Pushkin and others.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    109 views2 pages

    Gothic-Fantastic Lectures Outline

    Uploaded by

    Anonymous v5EC9XQ30
    This 4-week lecture series will explore Russian Gothic-fantastic literature. It will define the Gothic-fantastic mode and discuss its relevance in a Russian context. Each week will focus on a major Russian author: Week 4 on the history of the genre, Week 5 on Gogol's works, Week 6 on Dostoyevsky's Petersburg Gothic writings, and Week 7 on Vladimir Odoevsky. Suggested primary readings include works by Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Krzhizhanovsky, Odoevsky, Pushkin and others.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 2

    Dr Muireann Maguire (Wadham College) Mondays 12pm (weeks 4-7)

    Reading Russian Gothic-Fantastic Literature

    The four lectures in this series lectures aim to outline define the term Gothic-fantastic and explore the significance of this mode discuss the relevance of Gothic-fantastic literature in a Russian context study Gothic-fantastic work by major Russian authors in-depth

    The lectures will take the following course: Week 4: A history of the Gothic-fantastic mode in Russian literature Week 5: Gogols ghosts Week 6: Dostoyevskys Petersburg Gothic Week 7: Vladimir Odoevsky and the Gothic-fantastic

    Suggested primary reading includes: Alexcander Bestuzhev-Marlinskii, Strashnoe gadanie; Mikhail Bulgakov, any of the Diavoliada stories; Dostoevsky, Dvoinik, Khozaika, and Bobok; Gogols Ukrainian and Petersburg tales; Daniil Kharms, Starukha; Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Kvadraturin; Vladimir Odoevsky, various, including Silfida and Kosmorama; Anton Pogorelskii, Dvoinik and Lafertovskaia makhovnitsa; Pushkin, Pikovaia dama and Mednyi vsadnik; A.K. Tolstoy, Upyr and Semia vurdalaka; Turgenev, Prizraki and Klara Milich. Some or all of these texts are available on the website www.lib.ru. This may be helpful with the less readily available texts, such as Krzhizhanovskys. A full list of reading material for each lecture will shortly be available. Good general introductions to this topic include:
    Fred Botting, Gothic (London: Routledge, 1996.) Neil Cornwell, (ed.) The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1999) Neil Cornwell, The Literary Fantastic: From Gothic to Postmodernism (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990).

    Jerrold E. Hogle, The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Eric Naiman, Behind the Red Door: An Introduction to NEP Gothic, in Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999) Vadim Vatsuro, Goticheskii roman v Rossii (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2002) N.D. Tamarchenko (ed.) Goticheskaia traditsiia v russkoi literatura (Moscow: Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Gumanitarnyi Universitet, 2008) Tzvetan Todorov, The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, trans. by Richard Howard (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975)

    You might also like