Teaching code

4S002953

Credits

9

Coordinator

Stefano Aloe

Language

Russian

Also offered in courses:

• Russian Literature 3 of the course Bachelor's degree in Languages and literatures for publishing and digital media

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/21 - SLAVIC STUDIES

Courses Single

Authorized

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

The course completes the three-year path aimed at acquiring the basics of Russian literary and cultural history. It is therefore linked to courses held in the preceding years complementing them and undertaking in-depth examination of topics related to Russian works and movements. At the end of the course students will be able to: 1) identify the main dynamics of modern and contemporary Russian historical and literary processes; 2) carry out a textual and comparative analysis using the acquired knowledge; 3) express autonomous and coherent opinions about outstanding moments of Russian cultural and historical development and analyse them properly.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Students must comply with the preparatory skills of Russian language and literature (exceptions are students for whom the course is a free choice). A knowledge of the Russian language of not less than B2 level is required.

Program

THE POETIC WORD AS A LIBERTARIAN EXPRESSION IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND SONG

The course focuses on the ethical and libertarian role of the poetic word, in its literary and musical expressions, within the Russian culture of the last three centuries. In Russia, literature has always had an alternative role, when not openly antagonistic, towards political power. The prestige of the poetic word fascinates civil society and scares the powerful, and the list of persecuted poets is very long, from Radiščev to Puškin, from Lermontov to Mandel'štam, up to the present day. In the Soviet twentieth century, then, a particular type of poetic word spread with particular naturalness especially among young people: the sung word, bearer of creative freedom and new customs and visions of the world. At the center of attention will be those cultural phenomena and in particular those forms of artistic expression (literary, musical, cinematographic) which in the various phases have posed as alternatives and criticisms of power and society. We will analyze some typologies of literary and poetic-musical expression which over the course of time have challenged, sometimes successfully, the various but always repressive emanations of Russian power. Some of the main themes: the figure of the poet and the myth of the Word; Puškin as a libertarian poet; the poetry of the avant-garde and the Russian Revolution; Anna Achmatova's Requiem; the poetry of the Khrushev Thaw; lagernaja pesnja and bardovskaja pesnja (the bard song of the 60s and 70s); 80s Soviet rock; the protest poetry of the 2000s. Examples of parallel artistic and cultural phenomena (music, cinema, performing arts...) will also be considered.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
An anthology of texts will be made available at the beginning of the course through a handout. Furthermore, each student will have to read and study at least one novel chosen from a list that will be provided after the start of the course.

REFERENCE FILMOGRAPHY:
- Мне двадцать лет (1965), реж. m. Хуциев
- Зеркало (1975), реж. А. Тарковский
- Асса (1987), реж. C. Соловьев
- Брат (1997), реж. А. Balabanov
- Время ДДТ (2002), реж. В. Бледнов
- Лето (2018), реж. К. Серебренников

CRITICAL REFERENCE LITERATURE:
Roman Jakobson, Una generazione che ha dissipato i suoi poeti: Il problema Majakovskij, Torino, Einaudi, 2004.
M. Martini, Oltre il disgelo. La letteratura dopo l’Urss, Milano, Mondadori, 2002
G.P. Piretto, Il radioso avvenire. Mitologie culturali sovietiche, Torino, Einaudi 2003
Storia della letteratura russa, diretta da E. Etkind, G. Nivat, I. Serman e V. Strada. Il Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 1989.
Artemy Troitsky, Compagno rock: la vera storia del rock sovietico, i movimenti giovanili, la perestrojka, Milano, Vallardi, 1987.
Артемий Троицкий, Back in the USSR, M., «Амфора» 2009.
G. Judina, A. Veneziano, I partigiani della luna piena. I poeti del rock in Russia, Salerno-Milano, I libri della frontiera, 2000.

Didactic methods

Frontal lessons in the classroom.

Learning assessment procedures

Method of development:
the exam is oral and consists of an interview during which the student will be asked to explain with precision and autonomous reasoning skills what has been acquired during the course and in individual preparation. The program does not differ for attending and non-attending students: the latter will be able to find the materials necessary for their preparation in the program, in the pantry and on the dedicated e-learning page; if necessary, they can ask the teacher for additions or clarifications during office hours.

Evaluation criteria

Objectives:
the exam aims to verify
- the acquisition by the student of the basic spatial-temporal and conceptual coordinates of the course
- adequate knowledge relating to the topics and materials analyzed during the course and / or foreseen in the program
- the ability to autonomously and with full knowledge of the facts of the historical, social and cultural phenomena characteristic of Russia, especially for the period analyzed in the course.
Contents:
the exam will focus on the contents of the program and on the literary, artistic and historical-cultural materials analyzed during the course.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

Single vote out of thirty

Exam language

Russo e Italiano