20th cent. Lit course "Women in Russian Lit"

[Olga Meerson]

Woman's points of view in a male author: Detstvo Liuvers, 
Women writers of prose: Evgeniia Ginzburg's and Nadezhda Mandel'stam's memoirs. More later.
o.m.

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From: trubikhina at AOL.COM
Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:16 am
Subject: [SEELANGS] 20th cent. Lit course "Women in Russian Lit"

> Dear colleagues,
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> I am wondering if you could offer me some pragmatic and helpful 
> suggestions. This summer I am working to develop an undergraduate 
> course called "Women in Russian Literature." The specifics of our 
> situation is that this is the only way at present time that we can 
> quickly get a course in 20th-century Russian Literature that we 
> sorely need through curriculum committees (it already exists on 
> the books) and also enroll it (by cross-listing with Women Studies 
> and English). 
> Therefore, we have a double goal: there should be a women studies 
> component to it BUT PRIMARILY it should be a course in 20th-
> century Russian Literature.  Women can be both authors (I am 
> certainly planning to include Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, and Gippius) 
> and characters/subject/conceptual focus, which makes it easier to 
> include the most important 20th-century male authors. 
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> I was wondering if you could help me by offering suggestions 
> a) about the specific texts/authors to use (other than the three 
> women authors mentioned above) that would be both the highlights 
> of 20th-century R.Lit. and/or have important women 
> characters/protagonists (OR concept of femininity at the work’s 
> center, like, e.g., Blok’s Russia=eternal femininity concept).
> b) a theoretical perspective that a course aimed at fulfilling 
> such a dual purpose could use.
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> I will be grateful for and looking forward to all suggestions, on 
> or off the list,
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> Julia
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> Julia Trubikhina
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> Assistant Professor of Russian
> Russian Program Coordinator
> Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
> Montclair State University
> Dickson Hall, Room 138
> Montclair, NJ 07043
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