First week
Tuesday,
Jan. 16
Introduction to the
course.
We
shall watch a British film version of Eugene Onegin .
Second week
Tuesday, Jan. 23
Read Pushkin's
Eugene Onegin and be
prepared to discuss the work in class
Third week
Tuesday, Jan. 30
Read Tales of Belkin
, p.
3-
74, Editor's Notes, The Shot,
The Blizzard,
The Undertaker, The Postmaster,
The
Squire's Daughter. We shall discuss the story
set in class.
Fourth week
Tuesday, Feb. 6
Read Lermontov's
Hero
of Our Time so that we
may discuss the work in class.
Fifth week
Tuesday, Feb. 13
Please read Nikolai Gogol's
St. Petersburg Tales. We shall discuss these
works
in class
Sixth week
Tuesday,
Feb. 20
Read pp.
3-254
of Gogol's Dead Souls. Please note that we are reading
only Part I .
Part II is reconstructed from
fragaments of the burned MS.
Seventh week
Tuesday, Feb. 27
Submit first
take-home exam.
Nalibow's slides
- "inside Russia and Eastern Eruope."
Readings from
Turgenev's Sketches
from a
Hunter's Album. Read
Khor and Kalynich, District Doctor, Bezhin
Lea (sometimes
translated as Bezhin Meadow),
Loner,
Two
Landowners, Lebedyan, Death, Singers,
Living Relic.
Eighth week
Tuesday, March. 6
Town Meeting
Day - no class
Ninth
week
Tuesday, March.13
Spring Break - No class!
Tenth
week
Tuesday, March. 20
Read Turgenev's Fathers
and Sons.
It is a short,
important,
interesting work.
Eleventh week
Tuesday, March 27
Read Dostoevsky's
Notes
from
Underground.
Twelfth week
Tuesday,
April 3
Read the
first half of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
Thirteenth
week
Tuesday,
April 10
Read the second half of Dostoevsky's
Crime and
Punishment
Fourteenth
week
Tuesday,
April 17
Submiot
second take-home exam
Read Tolstoy's The Death
of Ivan
Ilych.
Fifteenth
week
Tuesday,
April 24
Read Chekhov's Ward
#6
Sixteenth
week