The novel in Eastern Europe
M Pavlyshyn
8 or 12 points * 3 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: Any second-year language or literature subject
A selection of novels from Russian, Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian literature will be studied to disclose shared literary features and the special social, political and cultural role of the novel in Eastern Europe. There will be an introduction to the theory of the novel as a genre, with special emphasis on the work of M Bakhtin. Texts will be studied in English.
Assessment
Written (4000 words): 60% * Examination (2 hours): 40%
Prescribed texts
Andrukhovych Y Recreations (supplied)
Dostoevsky F M The idiot Penguin
Hasek, J The good soldier Svejk Heinemann and Penguin, 1973
Kundera M The unbearable lightness of being Faber
Sienkiewicz H Quo vadis Dutton
Tolstoy L N War and peace Penguin
Recommended texts
Bakhtin M The dialogic imagination Texas UP, 1981