Suggestions for 20th-century literature survey?
Alyssa Gillespie
gillespie.20 at ND.EDU
Tue Sep 29 02:27:14 UTC 2009
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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