The novel in Eastern Europe
M Pavlyshyn
8 or 12 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton
* Prerequisites (for the third-year level): Any second-year language or
literature subject.
Objectives Students who complete this subject should have a knowledge of East European nineteenth and twentieth-century novels. They should have an understanding of the role of literature in East European societies with a tradition of authoritarian state control and a knowledge of aspects of the theory of the novel.
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 (8 points) Written (4000 words): 60%
* Examination (2
hours): 40%
Assessment (12 points) Written (7000 words): 70%
* Examination (2
hours): 30%
* Students enrolled in this subject at the third-year level
will be obliged to write essays that presuppose more reading and address
questions requiring a more analytical approach than essays available to
students at the second-year level.
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 U P, 1981
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