General Syllabus and Schedule of Assignments

Sept. 1: General Introduction to Course. Goals and Policies.

Sept. 3: Pushkin, "Queen of Spades," pp. 211-233 and notes. Also read Debreczeny's introduction to his translation.

Sept. 8: The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, pp. 62-119 and notes.

Sept. 10: Continue with The Belkin Tales.

Sept. 15: Pushkin, "The Captain's Daughter," pp. 266-360, notes, and Appendix A, pp. 441-450.

Sept. 17: A History of Pugachev, pp. 361-440 and"Egyptian Nights," pp. 249-260.

****END of Wednesday's class: Quiz #1: Pushkin***

Sept. 22: Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time and introduction.

***Due at BEGINNING of Monday's class: Response Statement #1, A Hero of Our Time***

Sept. 24: Continue with A Hero of Our Time.

Sept. 29: Gogol, "The Diary of a Madman," "The Nose," and "The Overcoat," and introduction, pp. 7-108.

Required reading ON RESERVE in library: James M. Holquist, "The Devil in Mufti: The Marchenwelt in Gogol's Short Stories."

***Due at BEGINNING of Monday's Class: Response Statement #2, ANY of these three Gogol stories***

Oct. 1: Continue discussion of Sept. 29.

Oct. 6: FALL BREAK--No class.

Oct. 8: Gogol, The Inspector General.

***Due by Friday, October 10th, 12:00 Noon, NO EXTENSIONS: Essay #1 (3-5 pages)***

Oct. 13: Gogol, "How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich," pp. 109-159.

Oct. 15: Gogol, "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt," pp. 160-188.

***Quiz #2: Gogol***

Oct. 20-22: Turgenev, "First Love," and "Diary of a Superfluous Man."

Oct. 27-29: Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, text, pp. 1-89, "Responses" section, pp. 119-132, and Joseph Frank, "Notes from Underground," pp. 202-237.

***Response Statement #3: Notes from the Underground***

Nov. 3-5: Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, text, Parts I-IV, pp. 1-303.

Nov. 10-12: Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, text, Parts V-VI and Epilogues I-II, pp. 303-465. Also, read Ernest J. Simmons, "The Art of Crime and Punishment, pp. 516-525; Maurice Beebe, "The Three Motives of Raskolnikov: A Reinterpretation of Crime and Punishment , pp. 592-602; and Mikhail Bakhtin, "From Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics:

***Quiz #3: Turgenev and Dostoevsky***

Nov. 17-19: Tolstoy, introduction to the collection and "A History of Yesterday," pp. 35-47; "The Raid," pp. 169-199; and "Strider," pp. 435-474.

Nov. 24: Tolstoy, "The Memoirs of a Madman," pp. 653-665.

Nov. 26: Thanksgiving Recess, No class.

Dec. 1: Tolstoy, "The Kreutzer Sonata," pp. 523-601.

***Response Statement #4: "The Kreutzer Sonata."***

Dec. 3: Tolstoy, "Master and Man," pp. 602-652.

***Quiz #4: Tolstoy***

***Due by Friday, Dec. 5: Essay #2 (6-8 pages)

Dec. 8-10: Chekhov, TBA