Suggestions for 20th-century literature survey?

[Robert Romanchuk]

Dear Alyssa,
In a similar course, for prose of the "Thaw," we use Kenneth Harper's New
Voices (which is available again as a print-on-demand book from Thomson
Gale).

On a side note, we've found that Struve's Century of Russian Prose and Verse
(not in print, but your copy store can request copyright clearance) is a
great text to use in a 19th-c. survey taught in Russian; it also includes
some 20th-c. selections. Curiously, there is a good deal of anxiety about
Islam in the selections, which can lead to very interesting discussions (and
Pushkin's "Journey to Erzerum" seems quite up-to-the-minute).

Best, RR

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Alyssa Gillespie <gillespie.20 at nd.edu>wrote:

> Dear colleagues:
>
> Next semester I will be teaching the second semester of our Advanced
> Russian (3rd year) course, which is conceived as simultaneously a course on
> advanced language topics as well as an introduction to reading 20th-century
> Russian literature (prose and poetry; plays are also possible) in Russian.
>
> The first semester of this year-long course (which I am currently teaching)
> is similarly conceived but covers the 19th century, and I am successfully
> using The Golden Age reader (ed. Sandra Rosengrant) coupled with Emil
> Draitser's 19th-c. poetry anthology for that course. I have hit upon a
> reader entitled Seven Soviet Poets published by Duckworth (ed. Robert
> Porter) that may well work for the poetry component of the spring semester
> course, but I am coming up dry in regard to prose. Of course I could compile
> a reader of my own, but that would mean that the students would lack the
> extremely useful marginal glosses and glossary, biographical information,
> and other pedagogical materials that are found in Rosengrant's anthology.
>
> Can anyone suggest an equivalent text to The Golden Age reader that covers
> 20th-century prose (and/or poetry and plays, but prose right now is my main
> concern) for intermediate-to-advanced level Russian language students?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Best wishes,
> Alyssa Dinega Gillespie
>
> Associate Professor of Russian
> University of Notre Dame
>
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