UKR3010

Literature and society in Kievan Rus

M Pavlyshyn

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

Objectives Upon completion of this subject students should have acquired a knowledge of representative texts of the major genres of medieval East Slavic literature.

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%

Recommended texts

Khrestomatiia davn'oi ukrains'koi literatury 1967
Bilets'kyi O Zibrannia prats' u p"iaty tomakh 1966
Cizevskij D A history of Ukrainian literature 1975
Fennel J and Stokes A Early Russian literature 1974
Hrushevs'kyi M Istoriia ukrains'koi literatury vols 1 and 2, 1959