Suggestions for 20th-century literature survey?

[Blake Galbreath]

Dear Alyssa,
You can supplement Harper's New Voices with Yatsenko's Russkaja
netraditsionnaja proza kontsa XX veka.  Posobie dlja inostrannyx
uchashchixsja. - 2-e izd. - CPb.: Zlatoust, 2006. (
http://www.kniga.ru/books/253556)

Also, there are those little red paperbacks (Bristol Russian Studies), each
of which is an individual author (e.g., T.N. Tolstaja Tri Rasskaza/T.N.
Tolstaia Three Stories).  They make a bunch of those.

Blake Galbreath
UVA

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Robert Romanchuk <rromanch at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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