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RUSSIAN LITERATURE I
LETTERATURA RUSSA I

A.Y. Credits
2025/2026 8
Lecturer Email Office hours for students
Giuseppe Ghini Please contact professor by email
Teaching in foreign languages
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

Applied Modern Languages (L-11 R)
Curriculum: LINGUE E LETTERATURE
Date Time Classroom / Location
Date Time Classroom / Location

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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