CWL 576

Spring 2014

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Methods in Slavic Grad Study
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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as SLAV 576. See SLAV 576.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
49260
Lecture-Discussion
A
3:00PM -4:50PM
M
3024 Foreign Languages Building
Kaganovsky, L
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Credit:
4 hours
Section Info:
Topic: Formalism and Beyond. This course will serve as an introduction to Slavic literary theory; specifically, the works of the Russian Formalists and the field of semiotics that dominated literary criticism for the first half of the twentieth century. Russian formalism is one of the most influential schools of literary criticism. Between 1914 and the 1930s, scholars such as Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Propp, Boris Eichenbaum, and Roman Jakobson revolutionized literary criticism by establishing the specificity and autonomy of poetic language and literature. Russian formalism exerted a major influence on thinkers like Mikhail Bakhtin and Yuri Lotman, and on structuralism as a whole. In this course, we will look at the two schools of Russian formalism, the OPOJAZ (The Society for the Study of Poetic Language) in St. Petersburg and the Moscow Linguistic Circle, as well as the writings of Lotman, Jakobson, and Bakhtin. The goal of this course is to provide knowledge of this fundamental theoretical movement in its historic context, as well as to see its evolution and development in the works of Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Julia Kristeva, among others. Knowledge of Russian not required (all works will be available in English translation). Theorists covered in the course will include: Eikhenbaum, Shklovsky, Tynianov, Bakhtin, Jacobson, Saussure, Barthes, Lacan, Derrida, Kristeva.
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