MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996


UKR3010

Literature and society in Kievan Rus

M Pavlyshyn

6 or 8 points + 3 hours per week + First semester + Clayton + Prerequisites: Any RUS, SLA or UKR minor

Synopsis Literary texts (epics, sermons, hagiography, apocrypha, patericons, chronicles) are studied in the original and in parallel translation into modern Ukrainian or Russian, depending on the student's disciplinary background. Texts are examined in the context of medieval East Slavic religious and courtly culture, with special reference to the visual arts (icon, mosaic, architecture), and in the context of social and political change from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.

Assessment Written (2500 words): 50% + Examinations (1 hour): 30% + Seminar participation: 20%

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