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Narrative poems, lyric poems, short stories, novels (in prose and verse) ... censorship, foreign travel, taxes, religious tolerance. Liberation of the Serfs 1861. first ...
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Slide 1:Russia: From Empire to Federation
Slide 2:Eighth Week
Exam results New writing assignment 40th anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis
Slide 3:Vanya on 42nd Street
Characters: Vanya, Sonya, Yelena, Professor, Doctor, Waffles, Maid (Nanny), Moher Focus on relationships, feelings (hypochondria, envy, love) Tensions mounting: something will happen
Slide 4:Decembrist Revolt, 1825
Slide 5:Nicholas I (1825-55)
Decembrist Revolt Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Nationalism Censorship Polish rebellion 1830; Crimean War Persecution of artists
Slide 6:Golden Age of Russian Culture
First half of 19th century Literature, painting, music Sentimentalism, Romanticism Karamzin, Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Pavlova, Glinka, Briullov
Slide 7:Romanticism
feelings, emotions, individualism exotic, supernatural, dreams mixed genres, irony, narrative devices mystery, complex emotions poetry, later prose (novels and short stories)
Slide 8:Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
Variety of genres Narrative poems, lyric poems, short stories, novels (in prose and verse) Plays, poems, and stories basis for musical compositions Eugene Onegin, Queen of Spades, Boris Godunov Russias Shakespeare
Slide 9:Nikolai Gogol (1809-52)
Plays, short stories, novel Inspector General: Play Overcoat: Short Story Dead Souls: Novel Religious views Social views
Slide 10:The Overcoat
How is the hero presented? Sympathetically? Ironically? Sarcastically? How is the hero treated by others in the story? Does the supernatural play a role?
Slide 11:Mikhail Lermontov
Lyric Poetry, narrative poetry Hero of Our Times (Novel)
Slide 12:Princess Mary
How would you describe Pechorin? What happens in the story? How would you describe Pechorins relationship with Mary? Grushnitsky? Vera? Whats the point of this story? Does it try to tell you something about love?
Slide 13:Karolina Pavlova (1807-93)
Poetry and prose Novel: A Dual Life (1848)
Slide 14:Whats going on in your excerpt?
What is the dual life of the heroine? Is the author critical of anything here?
Slide 15:Criticism
social and artistic commentary Vissarion Belinsky (1811-48): Letter to Gogol
Slide 16:Last Day of Pompeii (1830-33)
Slide 17:Painting and Music in the Romantic Age
Briullov (1799-1852) Last Day of Pompeii Glinka Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin) Ruslan and Liudmila (based on Pushkins poem)
Slide 18:Alexander II (1855-81)
liberal Decembrists amnesty censorship, foreign travel, taxes, religious tolerance
Slide 19:Liberation of the Serfs 1861
first statements 1856 final statute 1861 aftermath: complications Tsar Liberator vs. Nicholas the Stick
Slide 20:Other reforms
Judiciary higher education military service corporal punishment zemstvo
Slide 21:Military ventures
Crimean War: defeat in 1855, Treaty of Paris Polish uprising, 1863 Russo-Turkish war, 1877
Slide 22:Foreign relations
Alaska; $7,200,000 1867 expansion into China
Slide 23:Political developments
1840s Westernizers: Belinsky, Chaadaev; later Herzen, Bakunin Slavophilism: Kireevsky, Khomiakov, Aksakov brothers Utopian societies
Slide 24:More Intellectual currents
utilitarianism positivism materialism Determinism
Slide 25:Nikolai Chernyshevsky 1828-89
What is to be Done? Relationship to Dostoevsky Critical tradition Critics of Catherines time Belinsky
Slide 26:Realism
Second half of 19th century Prose: novels, short stories, essays Individualism, supernatural, irrational, exotic: less important Topicality: news of the day, ideas of the day Critical edge: improve society (didacticism not obvious)
Slide 27:Ivan Turgenev 1818-83
Notes of a Hunter 1852 Fathers and Sons 1862 Bazarov Nihilism First Love: novella
Slide 28:Fedor Dostoevsky 1821-81
Slide 29:Life
studied engineering trouble with authorities: penal servitude, exile in Siberia in the 1850s return from exile: journalism, fiction
Slide 30:Views
anti-Westernizers anti-Chernyshevsky
Slide 31:Major Works
Notes from the Underground 1864 Crime and Punishment 1865-66 The Idiot 1868-69 The Possessed 1871-72 Brothers Karamazov 1880 Legend of the Grand Inquisitor
Slide 32:Major Ideas
Atheism: bad Reason, logic: bad Human beings: bad Suffering: good Freedom: good Orthodoxy: good
Slide 33:Influential
Philosophical thought: existentialism Psychology, criminal psychology Literature: world famous novels Theology: volumes of discussions of his ideas Passionate proponents and opponents
Slide 34:Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
Wealthy, Yasnaya Polyana student at Kazan U, dropped out military experience: mountain tribes and Crimean War early literary successes: Childhood
Slide 35:Major Works
War and Peace 1860s Anna Karenina 1870s
Slide 36:War & Peace
genre serial publication Napoleon Central characters meaning of life
Slide 37:Anna Karenina
topicality adultery theme interpretations
Slide 38:Religious Crisis 1880
marriage in 1860s literary success obsessions: death and meaning of life simplicity and hard work; the peasant rejection of literary work: new views on art
Slide 39:Tolstoyism
Non-resistance to evil Pacifism Anarchism Vegetarianism, abstinence Sermon on the Mount World-wide fame Influential followers
Slide 40:Results
Problems with government Excommunication from Orthodox Church Problems with wife and family
Slide 41:Later literary works
Death of Ivan Ilyich Resurrection 1899 (novel)
Slide 42:Later non-literary work
Translation of the Gospels Genres: essays, short stories, plays, novel Master and Man and Alyosha the Pot Death in 1910: legacy
Slide 43:Alexander III 1881-1894
conservative Pobedonostsev Trans-Siberian railroad Industrial development Famine and disease in 1890s Succession of Nicholas II