Instructor: Todd P. Armstrong
ARH 232D/North Lounge, Center for International Studies
tel: x3052/x4716; e-mail: armstron@grinnell.edu
office hours: MW, 1-2; TTh, 10-12 and by appt.

August
September
November
December

October

Week VI

Tuesday, October 2

Discussion of The Poems of Yuri Zhivago

Discussion leaders: Chi Chi and Jason

Discussion of Writing Assignment #2

DUE Monday, October 15

Wednesday, October 3: Writing Conferences

Thursday,October 4: Pasternak in Hollywood's eyes: David Lean's 1965 Doctor Zhivago

Monday, October 8: Writing Conferences

Reading Assignment for Tuesday, October 9:

from Utopias:
Catriona Kelly (ed.) "Altercations and Provocations"
Zinaida Gippius "Choosing a Sack"
Sasha Chorny "An Ass in the Laterst Style (An Aria for Abraded Voices)"
David Burlyuk, Aleksei Kruchonych, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Velimir Khlebnikov "A Slap in the Face of Public Taste"
Sofiya Parnok 'From "Noted Names"

Week VII

Tuesday, October 9

Discussion of Utopia Readings

Discussion of Web/Oral Presentation Project

Reading Assignment for Thursday, October 11:

From Utopias:
Nikolai Gumilyov "No-hopes, Amateurs and Those Who Make so Bold"
Ilya Repin "Unbridled Roisterers"
Maksimilian Voloshin "The Donkey's Tail"
Sergei Yutkevich "We Prefer a Pinkerton Cover to the Concoctions of Picasso"
Osip Mandelstam "From 'Literary Moscow'"
Vladimir Mayakovsky "The First of May"
Marina Tsvetaeva "In Praise of the Rich"
Daniil Kharms "Four Illustrations of How a New Idea Gobsmacks a Person Who is Unprepared for It"

Thursday, October 11

Discussion of Utopia Readings

Further Discussion of Web/Oral Presentation Project

Reading Assignment for Tuesday, October 16: Yury Olesha's Envy Part I

Week VIII

Tuesday, October 16

Yury Olesha and literature of the 1920s

Discussion of Yury Olesha's Envy Part I

Reading Assignment for Thursday, October 11: Yury Olesha's Envy Part II

Thursday, October 18

Discussion of Yury Olesha's Envy Part II

FALL BREAK!

Assignment for fall break: Work on web projects and get some rest!

Week IX

Tuesday, October 30

Introduction to Research Resources and Searching Techniques, Burling Library

Reading Assignment for Thursday, November 1: Valentin Kataev's Time, Forward! 3-83

Thursday, November 1

The beginning of an end: the 1930s and Socialist Realism

Discussion of Valentin Kataev's Time, Forward!

Reading Assignment for Thursday, November 8: Valentin Kataev's Time, Forward! 84-202