RUSS 251: 19TH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
IV. TEXTS:

A. Bookstore in Lampert Building, corner of Snelling & Grand.
- 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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