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Rus 252 Course Schedule (Subject to change)

DATE
TOPIC
READINGS
Jan. 13
Introduction
Slavic Paganism
Jan.20
Slavic Paganism
Handbook, pp. 139-142; Russian Primary Chronicle, excerpts [Blackboard]; The Nikonian Chronicle, excepts [Blackboard]
Jan. 25
Slavic Paganism (Skomorokhi)
Ivanits, pp. 3-18; Funk and Wagnall’s, pp. 1025-28; B&I, VI;
“The Igor Tale” in Rzhevsky or in Zenkovsky [Blackboard].
Haney #58
Afanas'ev, "The Jester"
Jan. 27
The Byliny (Kievan Cycle)
B&I, I-II
Handbook, pp. 66-70 ("Bylina")
Feb. 1
The Byliny (Kievan Cycle)
B&I, II; Alexander, 256-71
Feb. 3
The Byliny (Novgorod Cycle)
B&I, III; Alexander, 284-301
Maikov, "Elisei" in Segel. [Blackboard]
Feb. 8
The Byliny (Religious Epics)
Transitional Fairy Tales
1st Essay due on the Byliny
B&I, IV; Alexander, 341-50, 365
Afanas’ev, 67-71, 90-96, 284-87, 255-61, 569-75
Feb. 10
Historical Songs
Folk Ballads
B&I, V; Alexander, pp. 303-20
B&I, VII; Alexander, pp. 321-340
Lermontov, “Song about Tsar Ivan … and the Merchant Kalashnikov” in A Lermontov Reader.
"Misery-Luckless Plight" in Zenkovsky. [Blackboard]
Feb. 15
Fairy Tales (Everyday life)
2nd Essay due Historical Songs and/or Ballads
Afanas’ev, pp. 37-39, 58-61, 327-331, 415-18, 423-25, 631-51; Handbook, pp. 147-48 ("Folktales").
Feb. 17
Fairy Tales (Family Life)
Afanas’ev, pp. 56-57, 141, 146-50, 161-62, 182-83 226-27, 278-80, 308, 321-24, 366-70
Pushkin, "A Tale about a Fisherman and a Fish" in Chandler. [Blackboard]
Feb. 22
Exam #1
Feb. 24
Fairy Tales (Animal Tales)
Afanas’ev, pp.15-19, 25-29, 54-55, 61-62, 66, 72-76, 86-88, 171-72, 188-94, 196-99, 249-51, 275-76, 283-84, 288-89, 309-10, 312-13, 371-75, 437-38, 447-55, 498-500, 528-41, 612.
March 1
Fairy Tales (Baba Yaga)
Afanas’ev, pp. 49-53, 76-79, 122, 146-, 194-95, 229-34, 340-41 351-56, 363-65, 390, 393-98, 427, 439-47, 475-82, 504-20, 553, 569
Haney, #93, 98
Kuprin, “Olesya”
Teffi, "Baba Yaga" in Chandler.
Khudyakov, "The Stepdaughter and the Stepmother's Daughter" in Chandler
March 3
Fairy Tales (Firebird/Vasilisa/Koshchei)
 
Fairy Tales (simpleton tales)
3rd Essay due Baba Yaga
Afanas’ev, pp. 131-33, 427-37, 485-94, 494-97, 553-62, 612-24
Afanas’ev, 46-48, 62-65, 118-19, 142-45, 334-36, 455-56, 521-28
Teffi, "A Little Fairy Tale" in Chandler
Platonov stories in Chandler
March 8
Fairy Tales (Magical)
Afanas’ev, pp. 13-15, 31-37, 110-14, 164-68, 211-13, 262-68, 349-51, 399-404, 425-27, 567-68
Haney, #44
Pushkin, “Tsar Saltan” in Collected Narrative and Lyrical Poetry
Ershov, "The Little Humped-back Horse" [Blackboard]
March 10
Fairy Tales (Princes & Princesses/dragons)
4th Essay due Koshchei and/or Dragons.
Afanas’ev, 79-86, 269-73, 292-94, 299-302, 304-07, 310-11, 314-20, 356-63, 375-87, 457-75, 482-84, 600-11
Pushkin, “Ruslan and Liudmila” in Collected Narrative and Lyrical Poetry
Bogdanovich, "Dushenka" in Segel. [Blackboard]
"Peter and Fevronia" in Zenkovsky [Blackboard]
March 22
Devils
5th Essay due on Devils and their depiction in literary works
Afanas’ev, 180-82, 202-08, 221-23, 576-77 
Ivanits, pp. 38-50,154-68
Haney, #48, 56, 63 96 and 97
Pushkin, "The Devils" [Blackboard]
Gogol, “Christmas Eve,” "The Lost Letter," "The Sorochintsy Fair," "A Bewitched Place."
March 24
Folk Christian Belief
Ivanits, 19-37, 130-53.
March 29
Exam #2
March 31
Domestic Spirits
Ivanits, pp. 51-63, 169-77
April 5
Nature Spirits
Ivanits, pp. 64-82, 178-89;
Haney, #57, 94
Turgenev, “Bezhin Meadow” in Proffer
April 7
Nature Spirits
Gippius, “Sacred Blood” in Langen and Weir
Pushkin, “Rusalka” in Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works
Pushkin, "Rusalka" (poem)
Gogol, “A Night in May, or the Drowned Maiden”
Lermontov, “The Mermaid” in Major Poetical Works
April 12
Sorcerers/Witches
6th Essay due on the Rusalki or witches and their depiction in literature
Ivanits, pp. 83-124, 190-205
Haney, #17
Somov, “The Witches of Kiev”
Gogol, “Vii”
Gogol, “St. John’s Eve”
April 14
Vampires/Werewolves
7th Essay due on Vampires/Werewolves and their depiction in literature
Afanas’ev, pp. 333-34, 593-99
Somov, “The Werewolf”
Tolstoy, “The Vampire”
Tolstoy, “The Family of the Vurdalak”
Pelevin, "A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia."
April 19
Superstitions
Rituals
Songs
Alexander, pp. 25-118, 367-88
Handbook, “Folk Song,” pp. 143-47
Sinyavsky, “The Tenants” in 50 Writers
Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (extracts)
Zhukovsky, "Svetlana"
April 21
Songs
Chastushki

 
 
Proverbs/Sayings

​Reeder, 84-166
Alexander, pp. 389-98
Handbook, “Chastushka,” pp. 77-79
Blok, "The Twelve"
Alexander, pp. 119-26
Handbook, “Pogovorka,” p. 347, “Proverb,” p. 355.
Proverbs [Blackboard]
April 29
FINAL EXAMINATION   ​
  
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