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Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

SLA3910

The novel in Eastern Europe

M Pavlyshyn

8 or 12 points + 3 hours per week + First semester + Clayton + Prerequisites: Any second-year language or literature subject

Synopsis 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
Lem S Solaris Penguin
Tolstoy L N War and peace Penguin

Recommended texts

Bakhtin M The dialogic imagination Texas UP, 1981

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