20th cent. Lit course "Women in Russian Lit"
Olga Meerson
meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU
Tue May 29 16:27:32 UTC 2007
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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