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12-18th Centuries Russian Literature

Course code

SKK6007.HT

old course code

SKK6007

Course title in Estonian

12.-18. sajandi vene kirjandus

Course title in English

12-18th Centuries Russian Literature

ECTS credits

4.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

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

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

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

Course aims

To give the students the review and the knowledge of the 12-18th century Russian literature; to study biographies of the basic writers.

Brief description of the course

Genesis of the Russian literature. Specificity of the medieval literature. Concept of literary etiquette. Bible books and apocryphal stories. The hagiographical literature of 11-13th centuries. «Skazanie o Borise Glebe». Žitie Alexandra Nevskogo. «Povest` vremennyh let». History of opening and studying, ideological and literary structure of «Slovo o polku Igoreve». The theory «Moscow – the third Rome». The time of Peter the First. The Russian age of Reason and literary school of classicism. The leader of Russian literature till the 1770ies A.Sumarokov and his literary school. G. Derzavin’s biography and poetry. Russian sentimentalism and it’s the most important authors A.Radischev and N.Karamzin. Journalism. Freemasonry, the ideas of Enlightenment in Russia.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- understands the cultural and historical context of the literary process;
- understands the specific character of the middle ages and 18th century literature;
- understands the mechanisms of the formation and development of the literary system.

Teacher

Sergei Dotsenko, PhD; Anna Gubergrits, PhD

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