M.A. Reading List: Russian Literature

Old Russian Literature

PRIMARY SOURCES

• Povest’ vremennykh let
• Slovo o polku Igoreve
• Zhitie protopopa Avvakuma
• Perepiska Groznogo i Kurbskogo 
• Povest’ o Petre i Fevronii 
• Selected byliny
• Povest’ o Gore-Zlochastii
• Narodnye russkie skazki (Afanas’ev)

SECONDARY SOURCES

• Fennel, John and Antony Stokes—Early Russian Literature

Eighteenth Century Russian Literature

PRIMARY SOURCES

• Istoriya russkoi literatury XVIII veka (Moscow, 1946)

• "Felitsa"
• "Lastochka"

• Nedorosl’

• Bednaya Liza
• selections from Istoriya rossiiskogo gosudarstva
• Ostrov Borngol’m

• selected Basni

• Pis’mo o pravilakh rossiiskogo stikhotvorstva
• Predislovie opol’ze knig tserkovnykh

• Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu

• O drevnem, srednem i novom stikhotvorenii rossiiskom

Nineteenth Century Literature

PRIMARY SOURCES

• Semeinnaya khronika

• Chto delat’?

• Brat’ya Karamazovy
• Dvoinik
• Idiot
• Prestuplenie i nakazanie
• Zapiski iz podpolya

• “Eshche maiskaya noch"
• “Eto utro, radost’ eta” 
• “Ya prishel k tebe s privetom” 

• Mertvye dushi
• Mirgorod & Peterburgskie povesti
• Revizor

• Oblomov

• Gore ot uma

• Byloe i dumy

• Demon
• “Duma”
• Geroi nashego vremeni
• “I skuchno i grustno”
• Maskarad
• "Mtsyri"
• “Net, ya ne Bairon, ya drugoi” 
• “Rodina”
• “Smert’ poeta”
• “Son”
• “Vykhozhu odin ya na dorogu...”
• “Ya zhit’ khochu! Khochu pechali”
• “Zaveshchanie”

• "Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda"
• "Levsha"
• Ocharovannyi strannik
• Zapechatlennyi angel

• Groza
• Les 

• “Anchar”
•  “Brozhu li ya vdol’ ulits shumnykh”
• “Dlya beregov otchiznyi dal’noi”
• Evgenii Onegin
• Istoriya sela Goryukhina
• “K Chaadaevu”
• Kapitanskaya dochka
• Kavkazskii plennik
• Malen’kie tragedii
• Mednyi vsadnik
• “Ne dai mne Bog soiti s uma”
• Pikovaya dama
• “Poet i tolpa”
• “Pora moi drug, pora”
• Povesti Belkina
• “Prorok”
• Ruslan i Lyudmila
• “Vol’nost’”
• “Ya pomnyu chudnoe mgnovenie”
• “Ya vas lyubil”
• “Zima. Chto delat’ nam v derevne?”
• “Zimnee utro”     

• Gospoda Golovlevyi
• Istoriya odnogo goroda

• Anna Karenina
• Chto takoe iskusstvo?
• Detstvo
• Hadji Murat
• Kazaki
• Khozyain i rabotnik
• Kreitserova sonata
• Smert’ Ivana Ilicha
• Sevastopolskie Rasskazy
• Vlast’ t’my
• Voina i mir

• Dvoryanskoe gnezdo
• Mesyats v derevne
• Ottsy i deti
• Pervaya lyubov’
• Zapiski okhotnika

• “Kak okean ob”emlet shar zemnoi”
• “Silentium”
•  “Son na more”
• “Umom Rossiyu ne ponyat’”

SECONDARY SOURCES

• Alekseev, M. P., ed.—Turgenev i ego sovremenniki
• Bayley, John—Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary
• Bethea, David—Pushkin Today
• Costlow, Jane T.—Worlds within Worlds: The Novels of Ivan Turgenevi
• Diment, Galya, ed.—A Critical Companion to Goncharov’s Oblomov
• Eikhenbaum, Boris—Lermontov
• Gustafson, Richard—Leo Tolstoy, Resident Stranger: A Study in Fiction and Theology
• Jackson, Robert Louis—The Art of Dostoevsky: Deliriums and Nocturnes
• Maguire, Robert A., ed.—Gogol’ from the 20th Century: Eleven Essays
• Mandelker, Amy—Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel
• McLean, Hugh, ed.—In the Shade of a Giant: Essays on Tolstoy
• Miller, Robin Feuer—Dostoevsky’s Unfinished Journey
• Morson, Gary Saul—Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in ‘War and Peace’
• Nabokov, Vladimir—Gogol’
• Terts, Abram—Progulki s Pushkinym
• Todd III, William Mills—Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin: Ideology, Institutions, and Narrative

• Woolf, Tatiana, ed.—Pushkin on Literature

Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

PRIMARY SOURCES

• “Chem khuzhe etot vek predshestvuyushchikh?”
• “Iva”
• Rekviem
• “Molitva”
• “Muze”
• Poema bez geroya
• “Smuglyi otrok brodil po alleyam”
• “Vse raskhishcheno, predano, prodano”
• “Ya prishla k poetu v gosti...”

• Ostrov Krym
• Ozhog

• Smert’ Akhilessa  OR
• Statskii sovetnik

• “Sredi mirov”
• “Staraya usad’ba” 

• Avtobiograficheskie rasskazy
• Konarmiya
• Odesskie rasskazy

• 5-6 poems
• Petersburg

• 5-6 émigré stories from Cape of Storms, The Ladies from St. Petersburg, or Billancourt Tales
• Kursiv moi

• Pushkinskii dom

• Balaganchik, Dvenadtsat’
• “Fabrika”
• “Golos iz khora”
• “Na pole Kulikovom”
• “Neznakomka”
• “Noch’, fonar’, ulitsa, apteka”
• “O doblestyakh, o podvigakh, o slave”
• Stikhi o prekrasnoi dame
• “V restorane”
•  "Ya khochu bezumno zhit’”

• Beg
• Belaya gvardiya
• Master & Margarita
• Sobach’e serdtse 

• “Derevnya”
• Gospodin iz San Fransisko
• “Sukhodol”
• Zhizn’ Arsen’eva 

• “Arkhieri”
• “Bab’e tsarstvo”
• Chaika
• “Chelovek v futlyare”
• “Chernyi monakh”
• “Dama s sobachkoi”
• “Dushechka”
• Dyadya Vanya
• “Kryzhovnik”
• “O lyubvi”
•  “Palata no. 6”
• “Skripka Rotshil’da”
• “Skuchnaya istoriya”
• “Spat’ khochetsya” 
• “Step’”
• Tri sestry
• “V ovrage” 
• Vishnevyi sad

• Chemodan
• Zapovednik

• Moskva-Petushki

• 5-6 poems

• Russkaya krasavitsa
• Zhizn’ s idiotom

• Tsement OR Vremya vpered

• Mat’
• Meshchane

• “Moi chitateli”
•  "Ya i vy”

• Sluchai
• Starukha

• “Bobeobi pelis’ guby”
• “Kogda umirayut koni”

• Edichka
• Eto ya

• Kavkazkii plenniy
• Stol, pokrytyi suknom & s grafinom

• “Admiralteistvo”
• “Bessonitsa. Gomer. Tugie parusa”
• Egipetskaya marka
• “Notre Dame”
• “Rakovina" 
• “Sestry, tyazhest’ i nezhnost’”
• “Silentium (Ona eshche ne rodilas’)” 
• “Sumerki svobody”
• “Tristia”
• “Ya slovo pozabyl, chto ya khotel skazat’”

• “A vse taki"
• Banya
• “Khoroshaya otnoshenie k loshadyam”
• Klop
• “Noch’”
• ”Neokonchennoe”
• Oblako v shtanakh
• Pro eto
• “Utro” 

• Dar
• Drugie berega
• Mashen’ka
• Priglashenie na kazn’
• Zashchita Luzhina

• “Arbat, moi Arbat”
• “Gruzinskaya pesnya”
• “Pesen’ka o golubom sharike”
• “Po smolenskoi doroge”
• “Poslednii trolleibus”
• “Tri sestry”
•  “Ya pishu istoricheskii roman” 

• ”Vishnevaya kostochka”
• Zavist’

• 5-6 poems
• Doktor Zhivago

• Generatsiya “P”
• Omon Ra

• Svoi krug
• Tri devushki v golubom
• Vremya noch’

• Golyi god

• Chevengur
• Kotlovan
• Reka Potudan

• Veselye Rusi

• Kniga o schast’e v stikhakh
• Selections from Moskva & Moskvichi
• Oboroten

• Proshchanie s Materoi

• “Dikii shipovnik”
• “Kogda”
• “Stansy na smert’ kotenka”
• “Starushki”
•  “Vetkhozavetnyi motiv”
• “Vstrecha”
• “Zhenskaya dolya – eto pryalka”
• “Zhenskaya figura” 

• Chto takoe sotsialisticheskii realizm?
• Kolymskie rasskazy
• Siniavsky/Terts
• Sud idet

• “Chistota stikha”
• “Fiziki & liriki”
• “Kak delayut stikhi”
• “Kak ubivali moyu babku”
• “Khozyain”
• “Vse slabeli, baby – ne slabeli”  

• Shkola dlya durakov

• Mel’kii bes
• ”Ya bog tainstvennogo mira”

• selections from Gulag arkhipelag
• “Matrenin dvor”
• Odin den’ Ivana Denisovicha
• Rakovyi korpus OR V kruge pervom

• Delovoe Predlozhenie
• Led
• Ochered’
• Zasedania zavkoma

• Noch’
• Peters
• Reka Okkervil

• Dom na naberezhnoi

• 5-6 poems
• Iskusstvo pri svete sovesti
• Moi Pushkin

• Zhizn’ & neobychainye priklyucheniya soldata Ivana Chonkina

• “Beg inokhodtsa”
• “Koni priveredlivye”
• “Lukomor’e bol’she net”
• “Maski”
• “Militseiskii protokol”
• “Mne sud’ba”
• “Okhota na volkov”
• “Ya ne lyublyu”

•  My
• “Peshchera”
• selected essays

• “Akter”
• “Banya”
• Golubaya kniga
• “Kakie u menya byli professii”
• “Kocherga” 
• “Koshka i lyudi”
• “Monter” 
• “Nervnye lyudi”

SECONDARY SOURCES

• Boyd, Brian—Nabokov: The Russian Years
• Clark, Katerina—The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual
• Connolly, Julian, ed.—The Critical Companion to Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading 
• Curtis, J.A.E.—Bulgakov’s Last Decade: The Writer as Hero
• Goscilo, Helena—The Explosive World of Tatyana Tolstaya’s Fiction
• Lipovetsky, Mark, ed.—Postmodernist Russian Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos
• Milne, Lesley—Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography
• Rayfield, Donald—Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study of Chekhov’s Prose and Drama 
• Seifried, Thomas—Andrei Platonov: Uncertainties of Spirit
• Sicher, Efraim—Style and Structure in the Prose of Isaak Babel’
• Smith, Gerald—Songs to Seven Strings: Russian Guitar Poetry and Soviet “Mass Song” 
• Styan, John L.—Chekhov in Performance: A Commentary on the Major Plays 

Literary Theory

• Adams, Hazard and Leroy Searle—Critical Theory Since Plato
• Bakhtin, Mikhail—Epos i roman, The Dialogic Imagination (four essays in translation)
• Barthes, Roland—Death of the Author
• Benjamin, Walther—Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
• Booth, Wayne—Rhetoric of Fiction
• Butler, Judith—Antigone’s Claim
• Deleuze and Guattari—Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature
• Derrida, Jacques—“Structure, Sign, and Play”
• Eagleton, Terry—Literary Theory: An Introduction
• Eikhenbaum, Boris—Kak sdelana "Shinel"
• Emerson, Caryl—Critical Essays on Mikhail Bakhtin
• Foucault, Michel—“What is an author” AND Power/Knowledge 
• Frye, Northrop—The Anatomy of Criticism
• Jameson, Fredric—The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism
• Lotman, Yurii—Struktura khudozhestvennogo teksta
• Lukacs, Georg—Theory of the Novel
• Moi, Toril, ed.—The Kristeva Reader
• Nelson et al.—Introduction to Cultural Studies
• Propp, Vladimir—Morfologiya skazki
• Shklovsky, Viktor—O teorii prozy