RUSS 251: 19TH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

IV. TEXTS:

• From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories, ed. C. Proffer, Bloomington, Indiana U Press. Short stories to be read intermittently throughout the course.
• Lermontov, M., A Hero of Our Time . Tr. by Vl. and D. Nabokov, Ann Arbor, Ardis
• Pushkin, A. S., Eugene Onegin. A Novel in Verse, tr. James Falen, Oxford University Press, 1995 (Get THIS translation, please!)
• Turgenev, I., Fathers and Sons , tr. M. Katz, Norton
• Dostoevsky, F., Notes form Underground, tr. M. Katz, Norton
• Dostoevsky, F., Crime and Punishment, tr. J. Coulson, Oxford UP
• Tolstoy, L., Anna Karenina, tr. Pevear & Volokhonsky, Penguin

B. Library Reserve:

1. Books (RES in schedule)--2-hour reserve

• Lermontov, M., Major Poetical Works, translated by Anatoly Liberman, Minneapolis, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1983 (PG 3337 L4 A 253 1983)
• Gogol, N., Tales of Good and Evil, tr. D. Magarshack, N.Y., Doubleday, 1957 (PG 33 A1 5 1957)
• Chekhov, A. P., The Plays of Anton Chekhov, tr. Paul Schmidt, Harper-Collins, 1997.
• Handbook of Russian Literature, ed. V. Terras, Yale U Press, 1985--Your major reference work for biographical and other background information throughout the course. Our library holds two copies of this work, one of which I have placed on Reserve. (PG 2940 H29 1985).
• Trahan, Elizabeth, ed. Gogol's "Overcoat": An Anthology of Critical Essays. Ann Arbor, Ardis, 1982 (PG 3332 S53 G6)
• Russian Women Writers, ed. Christine Tomei, Vol. I, NY, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999. Note: This is held in the reference section of the library. PG3203.W64R868 1999 v.1

2. Items on electronic reserve in the library (E-RES in the schedule; most of them are also on Reserve in hard copy:

• Hammarberg, Gitta, "Poor Liza, Poor Erast, Lucky narrator," Slavic and East European Journal 31, 3 (1987): 305-21
• Lermontov, Mikhail, "The Demon," Major Poetical Works, tr. Anatoly Liberman, Minneapolis, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1983, pp. 355-413 (alternate pp. only) Hard copy on RES.
• "Translator's Preface" to Pushkin, A.S. Eugene Onegin, tr. by Douglas Hofstadter, pp. ix-xli. RES, E-RES
• Scotto, Peter, "Prisoners of the Caucasus: Ideologies of Imperialism in Lermontov's 'Bela'," in PMLA 107, 2 (March 1992): 246-60
• Gogol "The Nose" in Gogol', N. Tales of Good...
• Eikhenbaum, Boris, "How Gogol's 'Overcoat' is Made" Trahan, E. Gogol's Overcoat
• Durova, Nadezhda, biography and excerpts from The Cavalry Maiden, Russian Women Writers, ed. Christine Tomei, Vol. I, New York, Garland Publishing. pp.61-70, NOTE: This book is in the Reference section of the library:PG3203.W64R868 1999 v. 1, the individual sections
• Maria Zhukova, biography and excerpt from "My Acquaintances from Kursk," pp.183-98 in the same anthology
• Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia, biography and "After the Flood," pp.261-83 in the same anthology
• Lidiia Zinov'eva-Annibal, biography and "The Head of the Medusa," pp.443-57 in the same anthology
• Chekhov: The Seagull , The Plays of Anton Chekhov
  

C. Recommended general literary background sources (on 2-hour reserve in the library)

• Proffer, C. and Ronald Meyer, Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature in English. A Bibliography of Criticism and Translations, Ann Arbor, Ardis,1990.
• Terras, Victor, A History of Russian Literature, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991 (PG 2950 T43 1991)
• The Cambridge History of Russian Literature, ed. Charles Moser. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989 (PG 2951 C36 1989)--this one is on the shelf, not on reserve
• Mirsky, D. S., A History of Russian Literature: From its Beginnings to 1900. A classic! (PG 2951 M492 1958x)
• Lantz, Kenneth, The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia, Westport, Conn, Greenwood Press, 2004
  

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