On behalf of a friend in Moscow

[Finke, Michael C]

On Chekhov in the Anglo-American context, your friend might find useful the volume I coedited with Julie de Sherbinin, Chekhov the Immigrant: Translating a Cultural Icon (Slavica, 2007).









From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Robert Chandler [kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM]

Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 12:34 AM

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Subject: [SEELANGS] On behalf of a friend in Moscow







Dear all,





Does anyone have any advice to give to my friend who has just sent me this:








'And I have been asked to deliver a very challenging course which could be called "History of Russian literature through British and American literary criticism".


My idea is to split it up into two blocks (eighteen 90-minute lessons for the 19-th century, eighteen for the 20-th). I could take 5 - 6 most prominent Russian writers for each block. Then I would take some works on the authors and their legacy and prepare
them for the classroom use. Preferrably the works should be written at different times. For example, 5 articles about Dostoevsky, one - written at the end of the 19-th cent., another - at the beginning of the 20-th, the third - after the Revolution, the fourth
- in Khrushchev's times... Then the same with Tolstoy.


Another problem is to make the materials as useful as they can be - in terms of English learning. They should bring more than just bits of information on the subject declared. I will have to devise some tasks and follow-up activities.


If You think anything of all this may work, I would ask You to think of any books or collected works that might help me. Perhaps there are some reliable text-books, monographs...






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