World
Literature 118 Great Short Works of
Dostoevsky Homework
First week(August 27 - 31) Tuesday
-Course Introduction Thursday
- Read
first half of The House of the Dead. Be prepared to discuss and analyze the
work in class.
Second week(September
3 - 7) Tuesday
- Finish
The House of the Dead. Be
prepared to discuss and analyze the
work in class. Thursday
- Read
Poor
Folk. Be prepared to
discuss and analyze the work in class.
Third week (September
10-14) Tuesday - Read Part I of Notes from Underground . The
piece is located in the volume titled Great
Short Works of Dostoevsky.
Try to read it at
least twice even if the second time is skimming. Thursday
- Finish Notes from Underground
. One of the
cornerstones of Dostoevsky's artistic production, this will
make an
excellent work for discussion.
Fourth week
(September
17 - 21) Tuesday - From
The Best
Short Stories of Dostoevsky,, read
Chapter I - III of Dream of a
Ridiculous Man
Thursday - Read
Chapter IV - to the conclusion of Dream of a
Ridiculous Man.
Fifth
week
(September
24 - 28)
Tuesday - First
take-home
exam due. Screening of
the Russian film, «Живой» (Alive) - 2006, Director
-Aleksandr
Veledinskij, 92 min Thursday
- From
The Best
Short Stories of Dostoevsky, read The Christmas Tree and a
Wedding . Sixth
week(October
1 - 5) Tuesday
- From
The Best
Short Stories of Dostoevsky,, read
The
Honest Thief Thursday
- Read One-Third ofThe
Gambler.It is a wonderfully
autobiographical work.
Eighth Week (October 15
- 19) Tuesday - From The Best Short
Stories of Dostoevsky, read White Nights Thursday
- From
The Best Short Stories of
Dostoevsky,read The
Peasant Marei
(pp. 89-94). Ninth week(October
22-26) Tuesday
- Read
HALF of The
Crocodile. Although the Cioran is an excellent
translation, it has only been available off and on.
@ http://www.magister.msk.ru/library/dostoevs/dostf14e.htm Thursday - Finish
The Crocodile. Tenth week(October 29 - November 2) Tuesday
- Pass in second
take-home exam.Screening of the Russian film,
«Возвращение» (The
Return)- 2003,
Director - Andrei
Zvyagintsev. 104 min.
Thursday - Return exam. Finish screening of The Return - discuss.
Eleventh week(November
5 - 9) Tuesday
- Read
One-Third of The
Double. Be sure to read the marvelous introduction written
by the translators! Thursday
- Read
the Second-Third of The
Double. Twelfth week(Novermber
12 - 16) Tuesday
- Finish
The Double. Thursday
- Open discussion Thirteenth week(Novermber 19 - 23) Thanksgiving Recess - No Class!
Fourteenth week(November
26 - 30) Tuesday
- Read
The Litttle Orphan on
line(1887)http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/3369/ Thursday - Read
The Gentle Creature,
pp. 215-262 (from The Best Short
Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky).
Fifteenth week(December
3 - 5) Tuesday
- Summing up the semester's
reading in this course. Thursday - With
no official class meeting, I shall be in the office for student
consultations concerning anything in this course.
You may have until Tuesday, December 11 @ noon to submit this
exam
on paper or as an Emailed MS WORD attachment. Extensions beyond this point
are
NOT possible.