RUS3410

Literature and phenomenology: De Sade, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Tolstoy

S M Vladiv-Glover

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

Objectives As for RUS2410 with the additional objective of being able to give a critical analysis of a set theoretical text.

Synopsis As for RUS2410.

Assessment Seminar paper (1500 words): 25%
* Essay (3000 words): 45%
* Examination (1.5 hours): 30%
* Third-year students will be required to select different essay topics and demonstrate a wider reading relative to the second-year students

Prescribed texts

Dostoevsky F M The double Penguin
Dostoevsky F M The brothers Karamazov Penguin
Tolstoy L N Anna Karenina Penguin
Tolstoy L N Kreutzer Sonata Penguin

Recommended texts

Armstrong J The unsaid Anna Karenina Macmillan, 1988
Møller P U Postlude to the Kreutzer Sonata Brill, 1988
Jung C G Memories, dreams, reflections Collins
Freud S The ego and the id (supplied)
Kristeva J Black sun: Depression and melancholia Columbia U P, 1989