L0038 - RUSSIAN LITERATURE II

courses

ID:

L0038

Duration (hours):

36

CFU:

SSD:

SLAVISTICA

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

MODERN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (15/02/2026 - 25/05/2026)

Course Objectives

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The course aims to provide advanced knowledge of the literary movement “Russian Sentimentalism” by structural analysis of literary texts in the contest of the Russian culture of the end of the 18th-Century - beginning of 19-th-Century.
The aims of the course include:
- building on learners's advanced knowledge and understanding of the culture and literature of Russia.
- enhancing learners' understanding of Russian sentimentalist lyrics, dramas, prose works.
- developing an intercultural perspective of studying cultural phenomena.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Knowledge:
− The student has a good knowledge of the history of the Russian literature of the end of the 18th-Century - beginning of 19-th-Century.
− The student presents literary works of the period, and puts them into a larger historical, cultural and literary context.
- The student has a good knowledge of the most important Russian literary works of the end of the 18th-Century - beginning of 19-th-Century.
Skills:
− The student uses advanced literature terminology in Italian and in Russian.
− The student possesses abilities in the analysis and interpretation of the literary works.

Course Prerequisites

Level B2 of Russian.

Teaching Methods

COURSE STRUCTUREThe course is structured in an amount of 54 class hours. It consists in classes of history of literature and literary criticism, and in analysis of the most important literary works of N. Karamzin. Multimedia resource material is used in support of the lectures.

Assessment Methods

COURSE GRADE DETERMINATION
End-of-semester assessment consists in an oral examination about the course topics.

Texts

LITERARY WORKS:
The course includes the following works of N. M. Karamzin: a selection of poems; povesti Bednaja Liza, Natal’ja, bojarskaja doč’; Pis’ma russkogo putešestvennika, (izd. podgotovili Ju.M.Lotman, N.A.Marchenko, B.A.Uspenskij), Leningrad,1984. Authors to be studied include A.N. Radiščev, whose Putešestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu is in part inspired by Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey such as Karamzin’s Pis’ma russkogo putešestvennika.
LITERARY CRITICISM:
A.G.Cross, N. M. Karamzin: a study of his literary career. 1783-1803, Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1971; G. Hammarberg, From the idyll to the novel: Karamzin’s sentimentalist prose, Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991; N.D. Kočetkova, Literatura russkogo sentimentalizma, Sankt-Peterburg, Nauka, 1994; Nikolaï Karamzin, Les Lettres d’un voyageur russe, édition traduite, commentée et présentée par Rodolphe Baudin, Paris, Institut d’Études slaves – L’Inventaire, 2022.
The teacher will provide off prints books.
REFERENCE WORKS:
A. Kahn, M.Lipovetskij et al., A History of Russian Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
R.Bartlett, A History of Russia, Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke - New York, 2005.

Nikolai Karamzin and Russian Sentimentalism

Course Language

Italian language, Russian Language

More information

6 CFU SYLLABUS:
N.M. Karamzin, Pis’ma russkogo putešestvennika, (izd. podgotovili Ju.M.Lotman, N.A.Marchenko, B.A.Uspenskij), Leningrad,1984 (N.M. Karamzin, Lettere di un viaggiatore russo, a cura di S.Pavan, Voland Ebook, 2018).
LITERARY CRITICISM:
A.G.Cross, N. M. Karamzin: a study of his literary career. 1783-1803, Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1971; G. Hammarberg, From the idyll to the novel: Karamzin’s sentimentalist prose, Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991; N.D. Kočetkova, Literatura russkogo sentimentalizma, Sankt-Peterburg, Nauka, 1994; Nikolaï Karamzin, Les Lettres d’un voyageur russe, édition traduite, commentée et présentée par Rodolphe Baudin, Paris, Institut d’Études slaves – L’Inventaire, 2022.
The teacher will provide off prints books.
REFERENCE WORKS:
A. Kahn, M.Lipovetskij et al., A History of Russian Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
R.Bartlett, Storia della Russia, Oscar Mondadori, Milano, 2017.