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

[trubikhina at AOL.COM]

Dear all,

thank you very much for your suggestions and the generosity of your help. 

Julia


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Julia Trubikhina

Assistant Professor of Russian
Russian Program Coordinator
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Montclair State University
Dickson Hall, Room 138
Montclair, NJ 07043


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Yevgeniy.A.Slivkin-1 at OU.EDU
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Sent: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:26 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] 20th cent. Lit course "Women in Russian Lit"










Iulia,
Just one suggestion following Olga Meerson's mentioning of "Pikovaya dama": I 
taught contemporary Russian prose last semester and a comparative analysis of 
the figure of a strong-willed matriarch in Ulitskaya's "Pikovaya dama' and 
Petrushevskaya's "Svoi krug" worked really well for the students.

Best,

Yevgeny Slivkin
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
University of Oklahoma

----- Original Message -----
From: Olga Meerson <meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:41 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] 20th cent. Lit course "Women in Russian Lit"
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU


> Iulechka, another thing: I have not suggested any later Russian women 
> writers because I felt they were a fixture. Others' suggestiosn have 
> confirmed. A particular story by Ulitskaia can also be good for a 
> complex representation of a woman's vision in Russia: "Pikovaia dama". 
> Her long novel Kazus Kukotskogo is important for both all of Soviet 
> History AND the key feminist issues, e.g., abortion, contraseprives, 
> childbirth, sore spots surrounding those within a family framework, 
> etc. The movie was even better than the book--a bit less repetitive 
> and stylistically purer.
>  o.m. 
>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Olga Meerson <meersono at georgetown.edu>
>  Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:27 am
>  Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] 20th cent. Lit course "Women in Russian Lit"
>  
>  > 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.
>  > 
>  > ----- Original Message -----
>  > 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,
>  > > 
>  > > 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. 
>  > > 
>  > > 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.
>  > > 
>  > > I will be grateful for and looking forward to all suggestions, 
>  > on 
>  > > or off the list,
>  > > 
>  > > Julia
>  > > 
>  > > 
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>  > > Julia Trubikhina
>  > > 
>  > > 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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