Course code

SKK6008.HT

old course code

SKK6008

Course title in Estonian

19. sajandi vene kirjandus

Course title in English

Russian Literature of 19th Century

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Aim is to give the students the review and the knowledge of the 19th century Russian literature.

Brief description of the course

Literary schools at the beginning of the 19th century. Romanticism in Russian literature, it’s national features in the works by V.Zhukovskii. Realism in A.Pushkin’s poetry, prose and dramaturgy. A.Griboedov. M.Lermontov’s poetics; „The Hero of our Time”. Prose and dramaturgy by N.Gogol. New themes in Russian literature. „Natural school”. I.Goncharov. I.Turgenev. Poetry: A.Foet, F.Tiutchev, N.Nekrasov. Literary features of 1860ies-1880ies.New critics. Predominance of prose. Philosophy and psyhology of the Russian literature. Satire: M.Saltykov Stshedrin. Russian literature of absurd. Dramaturgy: A.Ostrovskii, A,Tolstoi. Time of great writers: F.Dostoevskii, L.Tolstoi, A.Chekhov, their ideas, methods and works.
Course include self-dependent work of student (reading the creations by Russian writers of the period, critics etc)

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
Knowledge of the features and the best works by Russian poets and writers of the 19th century

Teacher

Anna Gubergrits, PhD

The course is a prerequisite

Study programmes containing that course

Russian Philology (SKVB/00.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/11_1.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/11.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/11.HT)
Russian Language as a Foreign Language (SKVVB/11.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/11_2.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/10_2.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/10_1.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/10.HT)
Russian Language as a Foreign Language (SKVVB/10E.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/10E.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/10.HT)
Russian Language as a Foreign Language (SKVVB/10.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/09.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/08.HT)
Russian Language as a Foreign Language (SKVVB/08E.HT)
Russian Language as a Foreign Language (SKVVB/08.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/08.HT)