RUSSIAN LITERATURE I
LETTERATURA RUSSA I
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2025/2026 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Giuseppe Ghini | Please contact professor by email |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
Russian
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to:
Introduce students to the poetics of Russian realist novels.
Encourage students to reflect on the relationship between literature and anthropology.
Present the style of each novelist.
Program
Social criticism and the character as a person
Turgenev's characters (Fathers and Sons, A nest of gentry)
Beyond Romanticism
The mystery of Turgenev's characters
The poetics of allusione in Turgenev
The crisis of Turgenev's characters
The interiority of Turgenev's characters
Ordo amoris as their final result
The nature of Tolstoj's characters (Anna Karenina, War and peace, The death of Ivan Il'ich, Resurrection, The power of darkness)
Idiolects of Tolstoj's characters
Tolstoj's characters and their psychology
Guilt and repentance in Tolstoj's works
The "resurrection" of Tolstoj's characters
The nature of Dostoevskij's characters (Crime and punishment, The Demons, The brothers Karamazov)
Dostoevskij's superior realism
Dostoevskij's characters and freedom
Guilt and repentance in Dostoevskij's works
Death and rebirth in Dostoevskij's works
Bridging Courses
Knowledge and understanding
Knowledge of the main tools of literary criticism
Knowledge of the peculiarity of Russian literature
Applying knowledge and understanding
Ability to understand and discuss several the literary criticism of each text
Ability to estimate different critical points of view
Making judgements
Ability to develop one's own literary judgement
Learning skills
Independent reading of Russian literary texts
Ability to apply what have been acquired to different texts
Communication skills
Ability to convey clearly and coherently the contents of the lessons to specialists and non-specialists interlocutors
Ability to convey with accuracy and effectiveness the contents of the lessons to specialists and non-specialists interlocutors
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Frontal essons with audiovisual support and original materials
- Innovative teaching methods
In today's cultural context, dominated by contingent and ephemeral communication, the most innovative teaching method consists of encouraging students to read the suggested texts personally and carefully, repeating the process if necessary, in order to arrive at a critical understanding of them and acquire the ability to express their reflections on the subject in an argumentative manner.
- Attendance
Reading the study texts is absolutely mandatory.
- Course books
Turgenev: Fathers and Sons, A nest of gentry
Tolstoj: Anna Karenina, The death of Ivan Il'ich, The power of darkness
Dostoevskij: The brothers Karamazov
Ghini: Anime russe. Turgenev, Tolstoj, Dostoevskij. L'uomo nell'uomo
The texts must be supplemented by reading the chapters relating to the second half of the 19th century taken from a textbook on the history of Russian literature (Mirsky, Picchio-Colucci, Carpi).
- Assessment
Learning outcomes will be assessed through a written test consisting of three open-ended questions to be answered comprehensively in 90 minutes.
The exam will assess knowledge of the texts presented in class (10/30), the ability to analyse them critically (10/30) and the ability to argue one's own thesis in Italian (10/30).
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Independent study
- Course books
Turgenev: Fathers and Sons, A nest of gentry
Tolstoj: Anna Karenina, The death of Ivan Il'ich, The power of darkness
Dostoevskij: The brothers Karamazov
Ghini: Anime russe. Turgenev, Tolstoj, Dostoevskij. L'uomo nell'uomo
The texts must be supplemented by reading the chapters relating to the second half of the 19th century taken from a textbook on the history of Russian literature (Mirsky, Picchio-Colucci, Carpi).
- Assessment
Learning outcomes will be assessed through a written test consisting of three open-ended questions to be answered comprehensively in 90 minutes.
The exam will assess knowledge of the texts presented in class (10/30), the ability to analyse them critically (10/30) and the ability to argue one's own thesis in Italian (10/30).
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Notes
Beginning with academic year 2014-15 the course lasts an academic year.
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