Fw: Re: [SEELANGS] Suggestions for 20th-century literature survey?

Tue Sep 29 16:57:04 UTC 2009

Dear SEELANGS,

I worked for Harcourt on the international side and the college transition did cause some confusion. So, this thread piqued my curiosity. I understand your frustration with finding Kenneth Harper's book. I couldn't find it either.  Let me know if you experience problems getting a hold of it from Thomson / Heinle. I might have contacts there.

If you are open to considering an alternative to Harper, we are publishing a new critical companion, The 20th Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion by Lyudmila Parts. When I read her proposal, I thought this would be perfect for survey courses. Each article focuses on a specific short story (subject, themes, structure, etc). Authors range from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. If you would like to review this title, let me know. 

I'll be happy to help locate Harper or send you a review copy of Parts. 

Best,
Christa Kling
Academic Studies Press

--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Robert Romanchuk <rromanch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Robert Romanchuk <rromanch at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Suggestions for 20th-century literature survey?
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 10:41 AM

Dear Colleagues,
Kenneth Harper's New Voices is an excellent text for a 20th-c. lit survey in
Russian, but locating it is a bit of a chore.

It appeared in the Books in Print database as a Harcourt College Publishers
book, but is now a Thomson/Heinle POD reprint which, moreover, can't be
found on their website. To add to the fun, the title is broken off as New
Voices: Contemporary Soviet and the author is identified as "Koulaef" (sic).
The ISBN is 0-15-504472-9 (ISBN 13 adds 978 at the beginning). The retail
price was listed at $26.50.

As recently as fall 2007 our bookstore was able to order it in quantities of
10, directly from the publisher if I'm not mistaken. You can also find it
here (at slightly inflated prices) from third-party sellers at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0155044729/sr=8-1/qid=1254237856/

Best,
Robert Romanchuk
Florida State University

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Blake Galbreath <blg4u at virginia.edu> wrote:

> 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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