Russian Literature (MA)
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
This course is designed for students who have followed a three-year cycle of Russian literature and completed three-year Russian language learning. It can be part of a monolingual or bilingual specialization course but can also be chosen for two years in a row. For this reason, the topics dealt with each year present a wide variety of topics, historical periods and critical methodologies more specific and complex compared to those addressed during the three-year course The course stimulates the students to study in depth thematic or critical aspects useful to enrich the study path that each one is following.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: deepening of complex and articulated historical-literary, critical and methodological issues. Reading and detailed analysis of literary and critical texts in the original language. Applying knowledge and understanding: ability to apply the critical methodologies learned to texts of individual choice. Identification of aspects related to one's own personal path in the works and critical methodologies presented during the course.
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 titled "Russian Folk Tales: From Orality to Text, from Text to Intermediality" aims to examine Russian folk tales from multiple perspectives. Through theoretical studies (Propp, Veselovskij), the relationship between folk tales, history, and myth will be explored, and the poetics of folk tales will be delved into. By reading a selection of tales in the original language, the linguistic and structural characteristics specific to the genre will be analyzed. Finally, various intermedial pathways of Russian folk tales will be considered, with particular attention to their manifestations in contemporary literature, cinema, and theatre.
Prerequisites for admission
The course will be held in Italian with some readings in Russian. The syllabus presupposes solid knowledge of the Russian language, literary history, and critical terminology. Therefore it is suitable only for the students who have already completed a three-year course with Russian as an A or B language.
Teaching methods
The course follows these teaching methods: class lectures, reading and explaining passages from the works in the syllabus, viewing and commentary on audiovisual materials, and possible individual presentations made by students.
Teaching Resources
The course has a website on the Ariel online teaching platform. Please, refer to the syllabus on Ariel platform.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists of an individual interview, in Italian or in Russian, which includes questions asked by the teacher, interactions between teacher and student and discussion of the research prepared by the student with reference to literary and critical texts.
The interview lasts about 30 minutes. It aims to verify the knowledge of the texts read, the ability to contextualize authors and works, the ability of expression, the precision in the use of specific terminology, the ability to critically and personally reflect on the issues proposed.
The final mark is expressed in thirtieths, and the student has the right to reject it (in this case it will be recorded as "withdrawn").
International or Erasmus incoming students are invited to promptly contact the teacher.
The examination procedures for students with disabilities and / or with DSA must be agreed with the teacher, in agreement with the competent Office.
The interview lasts about 30 minutes. It aims to verify the knowledge of the texts read, the ability to contextualize authors and works, the ability of expression, the precision in the use of specific terminology, the ability to critically and personally reflect on the issues proposed.
The final mark is expressed in thirtieths, and the student has the right to reject it (in this case it will be recorded as "withdrawn").
International or Erasmus incoming students are invited to promptly contact the teacher.
The examination procedures for students with disabilities and / or with DSA must be agreed with the teacher, in agreement with the competent Office.
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