Revised 10-34-92

READING LIST FOR THE MASTER'S DEGREE IN RUSSIAN

DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN AND SLAVIC LANGUAGES

University of Arizona

LITERATURE

I. REQUIRED READING

A. All works specifically assigned for discussion and examination in literature courses and seminars used to meet degree requirements.

B. All works listed below not specifically covered in class.

Should be read in Russian.

Pushkin. Eugene Onegin; Queen of Spades; Tales of Belkin; Bronze Horseman.*

Lermontov. Hero of Our Times; The Demon or Mtsyri.*

Gogol. Dead Souls; Inspector General; The Nose; The Overcoat.

Turgenev. Fathers and Sons; Notes of a Hunter.

Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment; Brothers Karamazov (at least one in Russian); Notes from the Underground.

Tolstoy. Anna Karenina; War and Peace (at least one in Russian); Childhood; Kreutzer Sonata; Khadji Murad.

Ostrovsky. The Thunderstorm.

Leskov. One story.

Chekhov. One of the following plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; Cherry Orchard. Three short stories (choose from the following): Spat' khochetsya, Poprygunya, Chelovek v futlyare; Anna na shee; Toska.

Gorky. Lower Depths and one short story.

Blok. The Twelve.*

Mayakovsky. The Bedbug.*

Zamyatin. We.

Bulgakov. Master and Margarita.

Solzhenitsyn. Matryona's House; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Stories of writers such as Rasputin, Shukshin, Trifonov, Viktor Erofeev, Petrushevskaya.

* Including poetry in the Heritage of Russian Verse

II RECOMMENDED READING

Fonvizin. Nedorosl'.

Griboedov. Gore ot uma.

Goncharov. Oblomov

Saltykov-Shchedrin. Gospoda Golovevy.

Leskov. Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda.

Bunin. Gospodin iz San Frantsisko.

Babel'. Kornarmiya. Odesskie rasskazy.

Olesha. Zavist'.

Belyi. Peterburg.

Il'f and Petrov. Dvenadtsat' stul'ev.

Pasternak. Doktor Zhivago.

Sholokhov. Tikhii Don.

Mandel'shtam.  Vospominaniya.

RECOMMENDED

III REFERENCE WORKS AND SECONDARY LITERATURE

STANDARD REFERENCES

Dictionary of Russian Literature Since 1917, ed. Wolfgang Kasach, 1988.

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Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature (on-going) Vol. 1-9 (A-G)

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The Handbook of Russian Literature, Victor Terras

ANTHOLOGIES

Obolensky, Heritage of Russian Verse

Markov, V. and Sparks, M., Editors, Modern Russian Poetry

Segal, Harold, The Literature of Eighteenth Century Russia, (Two volumes)

Zenkovsky, Sergei, Editor, Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles and Tales.

HISTORIES

Bristol, Evelyn, A History of Russian Poetry

Hingley, Ronald, Russian Writers and Society

Karlinsky, Simon, Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age of Pushkin

Mirsky, Dmitry, A History of Russian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1900.

Moser, Charles, Editor, The Cambridge History of Russian Literature

Terras Victor, A History of Russian Literature

BIOGRAPHIES, LITERARY CRITICISM, AND THEORY

Bayley, John, Pushkin.

Christian, R.F., Tolstoy, A Critical Introduction.

Erlich, Viktor, Gogol.

Erlich, Viktor, Russian Formalism.

Garrard, John, Mikhail Lermontov.

Mirsky, D.S., Pushkin.

Mochulsky, Konstantin, Dostoevsky, His Life and Work.

Moody, Christopher, Solzhenitsyn.

Nabokov, Vladimir, Nikolai Gogol.

Pritchett, V.S., The Gentle Barbarian.

Simmons, Ernest, Leo Tolstoy.

Valency, Maurice, The Breaking String: The Plays of Anton Chekhov.

Wasiolek, E. Dostoevsky, The Major Fiction.

Winner, Thomas, Chekhov and His Prose.

CULTURE

RECOMMENDED

Auty, Robert, and D. Obolensky, Editors, Companion to Russian Studies: Volume One. An Introduction to Russian History (1976); Volume Two, An Introduction to Russian Language and Literature (1977), Volume Three, An Introduction to Russian Art and Architecture (1980). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England.

Bird, Alan, A History of Russian Painting. G.K. Hall and Co.:Boston, Mass., 1987.

Brumfield, William C., Gold in Azure: One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture. David R. Godine: Boston, Mass., 1983.

Garrard, John and Carol, Inside the Soviet Writer's Union, The Free Press: New York, 1990.

Gerhart, Geneva, The Russian's World -- Life and Language. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.: New York, 1974,.

Hamm, Michael F., Editor, The City in Russian History. University of Kentucky Press: Lexington, Kentucky, 1976.

Karlinsky, Simon and Appel, Alfred Jr., Russian Literature and Culture in the West: 1922-1972.

Leonard, Richard Anthony, A History of Russian Music. Minerva Press: New York, 1968.

Leyda, Jay, Kino - A History of the Russian and Soviet Film.

Roslavleva, Natalia, Era of the Russian Ballet - 1770-1965. E.P. Dutton, and Co.: New York, 1966.

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Sokolov, Russian Folklore.

 

 

 

 

HISTORY

RECOMMENDED

Riasanovsky, N., A History of Russia.

or

Florinsky, M.T., Russia, A History and Interpretation.

 

 

LINGUISTICS

REFERENCE WORKS

The sources listed below are largely reference books. The student should be familiar with their content and know where to find information when needed.

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Akmajian, Demers and Harnish, Introduction to Linguistics, MIT, 1984.

Arlotto, A., Introduction to Historical Linguistics, UPA, 1972.

Carleton, T., Introduction to the Phonological History of the Slavic Languages, Slavica Publishers, Inc., 1990.

DeBray, R., Guide to Slavonic Languages, Slavica Publishers, Inc., 198.

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Schenker, A. and E. Stankiewicz, The Slavic Literary Languages, Yale, 198.

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Shevelov, G., A Prehistory of Slavic, Heidelburg, 1964.

Townsend, C., Russian Word Formation, McGraw-Hill, 1975.

Vinogradov, V.V., The Russian Literary Language: A History, Wisconsin University Press, 1968.

Vlasto, A.P., A Linguistic History of Russia, Oxford, 1986.