Contents of lectures |
First semester
1. The European novel of the 19th century and the birth of modern realism
2. Nineteenth-century French novel: Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola
3. Gogol’s "Overcoat" and its progeny: Dostoevsky and the Gogolian tradition
4. Tolstoy as a novelist (“Anna Karenina” and “War and Peace”)
5. Tolstoy and Chekhov as storytellers
6. Naturalism: novel and theatre
Second semester
1. The beginnings of modern poetry: Baudelaire and Whitman
2. Symbolism (Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Blok)
3. Modernism, modernity, avant-garde, postmodernism: concepts, definitions, complications
4. Modernism: poetry (Rilke, Mandelstam, Valéry, T.S. Eliot) and prose (Proust, Joyce, Gide, Woolf, Mann, Faulkner, Kafka)
5. Introduction to the study of historical avant-gardes
6. Postmodernism: a very short introduction |