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
October
November
December

September

Week II

Tuesday, September 4

MEET IN ARH 224 (Audio-visual room)

The Russian Revolution in Literature, Art and Film
Art and its role in recording/reflecting on/interpreting "history"

Discussion (selections to be presented by working pairs):

Catriona Kelly (ed.) Utopias: Russian Modernist Texts 1905-1940: "Introduction" (ix-xxx); "New Worlds" (1-5); "Visions of Art" (49-51)
Also from Utopias:
Mikhail Kuzmin "On Beautiful Clarity"
Olga Rozanova "From 'The Principles of the New Art and the Reasons Why It is Misunderstood"
Osip Brik "The So-Called Formal Method"
Dziga Vertov "Seeing Like a Camera"
Vladimir Mayakovsky "From 'How to Make Verses'"

Thursday, September 6

MEET IN ARH 224 (Audio-visual room)

Russian literature, art and film and the REVOLUTION

Reading Assignment for Tuesday, September 11: Doctor Zhivago 3-90

"The Five-o'clock Express"
"A Girl from a Different World"
"The Sventitsky's Birthday Party"

Week III

Tuesday, September 11

Boris Pasternak and Russian literature
Discussion of Doctor Zhivago 3-90

Reading Assignment for Thursday, September 6: Doctor Zhivago 91-165

"The Hour of the Inevitable"
"Farewell to the Old"

Thursday, September 13

Discussion of Doctor Zhivago 91-165

Discussion leaders: Brad and Andrew

Reading Assignment for Tuesday, September 18: Doctor Zhivago 166-276

"The Moscow Encampment"
"Train to the Urals"
"Arrival"

Writing Assignment: "The Train" (Due Friday, September 21)

Week IV

Tuesday, September 18

Discussion of Doctor Zhivago 166-276

Discussion leaders: Lee and Alex

Reading Assignment for Thursday, September 20: Doctor Zhivago 277-328

"Varykino"
'The Highway"

Thursday, September 20

Discussion of Doctor Zhivago 277-328

Discussion leaders: Anne and Terrill

Reading Assignment for Tuesday, September 25: Doctor Zhivago 329-418

"The Forest Brotherhood"
'The Rowan Tree"
"Opposite the House of Sculptures"

Week V

Tuesday, September 25

Discussion of Doctor Zhivago 329-418

Discussion leaders: Phil and Aly

Reading Assignment for Thursday, September 27: Doctor Zhivago 419-519

"Return to Varykino"
"Conclusion"
"Epilogue"

Thursday, September 27

Discussion of Doctor Zhivago 419-519

Discussion leaders: Margaret and Kevin

Reading Assignment for Tuesday, October 2: The Poems of Yuri Zhivago 523-559

READ AND BEGIN THINKING ABOUT
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT #2

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