Russian Culture Ii
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
Second cycle programme of Russian culture should build further on the levels of the competences reached at the first cycle, as well as deepen the student's training, the ability to independently formulate objectives of academic and applied research in the subject area.
Expected learning outcomes
The second level student should be able to demonstrate:
- a deeper level of knowledge of Cultural Studies applied to Russian culture;
- a deeper level of knowledge of the evolution of Russian culture in a diachronic perspective and in its relationship to other cultures;
- the ability to produce a competent analysis of different cultural texts
- the ability to use the fundamental bibliography in independent research or applied activities.
- a deeper level of knowledge of Cultural Studies applied to Russian culture;
- a deeper level of knowledge of the evolution of Russian culture in a diachronic perspective and in its relationship to other cultures;
- the ability to produce a competent analysis of different cultural texts
- the ability to use the fundamental bibliography in independent research or applied activities.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course will address various aspects of the cultural history of Russian emigration. After a general introduction on the forms of the phenomenon from the 16th century to the early 20th century, it will mainly describe - in the historical context - the social, political, cultural, and literary life of the different waves of 20th-century Russian emigration: the "first wave" (between the two world wars), the "second wave" (after the Second World War), the "third wave" (from the second half of the 1960s), the "fourth wave" (after the end of the Soviet Union in 1991), and the "fifth wave" (caused by the totalitarian drift of Putin's Russia from 2012 and the war against Ukraine since 2022).
The course will pay particular attention to the most important Russian emigrants: writers, poets, critics, politicians, publicists, philosophers, theologians, and scientists. The distinctive features of the main centers of the Russian diaspora will be highlighted.
The course will pay particular attention to the most important Russian emigrants: writers, poets, critics, politicians, publicists, philosophers, theologians, and scientists. The distinctive features of the main centers of the Russian diaspora will be highlighted.
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisite.
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures.
Teaching Resources
1) Oleg Budnickij. Ėmigracija iz Rossii (XVI-XX vv.): istoričeckaja spravka. In: Oleg Budnickij. Drugaja Rossija: Issledovanija po istorii russkoj ėmigracii. Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021. P. 12-45.
2) Marc Raeff. Russia abroad: A cultural history of the Russian emigration, 1919-1939. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
3) Gleb Struve. Russkaja literatura v izgnanii. Izd. 3-e, dop. Paris; Moskva: YMCA-Press; Russkij put', 1996.
4) PowerPoint presentations.
The mentioned books and the PowerPoint presentations used in the course will be present at the platform MyAriel.
2) Marc Raeff. Russia abroad: A cultural history of the Russian emigration, 1919-1939. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
3) Gleb Struve. Russkaja literatura v izgnanii. Izd. 3-e, dop. Paris; Moskva: YMCA-Press; Russkij put', 1996.
4) PowerPoint presentations.
The mentioned books and the PowerPoint presentations used in the course will be present at the platform MyAriel.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists in an oral colloquy about the contents of the course.
Professor(s)
Reception:
from 1 October: on Tuesdays, 15.00 - 17.00
in presence (Sesto San Giovanni, room 5010) and on distance via MS Teams (write a message, I'll call you back)