Advanced studies in the several fields of Slavic literatures and linguistics. Content varies.

After an initial five or six weeks devoted to early works by Dostoevsky, we will embark upon an extended, slow reading and rereading of Преступление и наказание. The goal of the course will be to give students a sense of familiarity with the novel as well as its scholarship and to impart confidence about the prospect of teaching the novel in the future. Students will write a seminar paper and lead discussions about our reading. Eventual contributions by seminar participants to the existing scholarship on Преступление и наказание or on the shorter fiction will be an added bonus. We will be using the Полное собрание сочинении и писем (30 vols; 1972-88) as our principal source, but any edition of Преступление и наказание should suffice for purchase. (If you can buy volumes 6 and 7 of the completed works alone, that would be ideal.) The new edition of the Полное собрание сочинении и писем (35 vols; 2013-- ) would also be fine. Students should try to purchase a copy of Boris Tikhomirov’s “Лазарь! Гряди вон,” a wonderful commentary to Dostoevsky’s novel.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

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