Fall 2012 Lectures: Monday, Wednesday 4:00PM - 4:50PM Office: CL 1417 Tel: (412) (no voice mail) Office hours: TBA

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1 RUSS 0090 Fall 2012 Syllabus 1 Fall 2012 Lectures: Wednesday 4:00PM - 4:50PM Office: CL 1417 Tel: (412) (no voice mail) Office hours: TBA Schedule of Classes and Assignments University of Pittsburgh Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures RUSS 0090: Russian Fairy Tales Instructors: Olga Klimova (vok1@pitt.edu), Sabrina Robinson (sms167@pitt.edu), Marc Wisnosky (maw101@pitt.edu), Chip Crane (chipcrane@hotmail.com), Alton Post (altonpost@verizon.net) Abbreviations: AA Afanas ev, A. Russian Fairy Tales. BB Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. LI Ivanits, Linda J. Russian Folk Belief. CW CourseWeb * The instructors reserve rights to make changes in course schedule throughout the term. August 27 August 29 August 30, August 31 September 3 September 5 SYLLABUS. DEFINITIONS AND ISSUES. RUSSIA AND ITS PEOPLE None Film clip: N. Mikhalkov s The Barber of Siberia RUSSIAN PAGANISM Study Course Description in CourseWeb under syllabus folder for quiz LI: pp. 3 18, 51 63, Topics Pagan deities and festivals Terminology Film clip: A. Tarkovskii s Andrei Rublev (1966) Quiz on course description RUSSIAN PAGANISM CW: List of terms in CourseWeb in Course Documents folder Watch an animation film by Aleksandr Petrov s Mermaid (1997) on Youtube LI: pp , Topics Domestic and nature spirits Terminology NO CLASSES LABOR DAY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY AND ICON ART Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church (PDF)

2 RUSS 0090 Fall 2012 Syllabus 2 September 6, September 7 October 10 September 12 September 13, September 14 September 17 September 19 September 20, September 21 RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY AND ICON ART Andrei Sinyavsky s The Specialization of the Saints, The Calendar, Icons from Ivan the Fool: Russian Folk Belief: A Cultural History (PDF) Review lecture notes. Come prepared to discuss Russian Orthodox Christianity and Russian icons MAX LÜTHI AND STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FOLKTALES Max Lüthi s The European Folk Tale: Form and Nature (PDF) AA: Ivan the Peasant s Son and the Thumb-Sized Man, pp Film clip: S. Paradjanov s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) ANDREI SINYASKY AND STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FOLKTALES Andrei Sinyavsky s Ivan the Fool: Russian Folk Belief: A Cultural History (PDF) AA: Ivanushko, the Little Fool, pp STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FOLKTALES: LÜTHI AND SINYAVSKY Deadline for notifying instructors and Office of Disability Resources of special accommodation requests. (See Course Description or consult with one of the instructors for details.) Bring Afanas ev to class AA: Vasilisa the Beautiful, pp AA: Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Grey Wolf, pp Review lecture notes. Come prepared to discuss the tales from Lüthian and Sinyavsky s perspectives STRUCTURALIST APPROACH TO FAIRY TALES: PROPP Vladimir Propp s Morphology of the Folktale, pp (PDF) AA: The Magic Swan Geese, pp STRUCTURALIST APPROACH TO FAIRY TALES: PROPP Vladimir Propp s The Method and Material, pp , (PDF) AA: Ivan the Peasant s Son and the Thumb-Sized Man, pp STRUCTURALIST APPROACH TO FAIRY TALES: PROPP AA: The Crystal Mountain, pp Review for examination #1. Come to class with questions or requests to review specific material. Write out two multiple-choice questions (four answers each; indicate the correct answer) and two essay questions based on the material for Examination #1 and bring them to recitation. Students who submit good questions will earn participation credit.

3 RUSS 0090 Fall 2012 Syllabus 3 September 24 September 26 September 27, September 28 October 1 October 3 October 4, October 5 Tuesday, October 9 Monday s lecture shifted to Tuesday!!! October 10 EXAMINATION #1 Includes all materials (readings, lectures, recitations) to date. PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH TO FAIRY TALES: FREUD AND BETTELHEIM BB: pp , PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH TO FAIRY TALES: FREUD AND BETTELHEIM Review lecture notes. Come prepared to discuss the tales from Freudian and Bettelheim s perspectives AA: The Three Kingdoms, pp AA: Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf, pp BETTELHEIM: TWO SIBLING TALES BB: pp , AA: The Armless Maiden, pp AA: The Magic Swan Geese, pp AA: Shemiaka the Judge, pp Topics Typologies of tales BETTELHEIM: YOUNGEST CHILD TALES BB: pp AA: Emelya the Simpleton, pp AA: The Princess Who Wanted to Solve Riddles, pp AA: Misery, pp AA: Two Ivans, Soldier s Sons, pp BETTELHEIM: TWO SIBLING AND YOUNGEST CHILD TALES Review lecture notes. Come prepared to analyze Youngest Child and Two Sibling Tales AA: Salt, pp AA: Ivan the Simpleton, pp BETTELHEIM: SLEEPING BEAUTY TALES BB: pp AA: Prince Ivan and Princess Martha, pp AA: The Enchanted Princess, pp Video clip: Sleeping Beauty (ballet) BETTELHEIM: ANIMAL BRIDE/GROOM TALES BB: pp , AA: The Snotty Goat, pp Sergei Aksakov, The Little Scarlet Flower (PDF) Film clip: L. Atamanov s The Little Scarlet Flower

4 RUSS 0090 Fall 2012 Syllabus 4 October 11, October 12 October 15 October 17 October 18, October 19 October 22 October 24 October 25, October 26 October 29 BETTELHEIM: SLEEPING BEAUTY AND ANIMAL BRIDE/GROOM TALES AA: The Frog Princess, pp AA: The Feather of Finist, the Bright Falcon, pp Review lecture notes. Come prepared to analyze Sleeping Beauty and Animal Bride Tales PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROCHES TO FAIRY TALES: JUNG AND VON FRANZ Marie-Louise von Franz, Taboos (PDF) AA: The Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise, pp VON FRANZ: BABA YAGA AND KOSHCHEY THE DEATHLESS AA: Baba Yaga and the Brave Youth, pp. 7 AA: Baba Yaga, pp AA: Koshchey the Deathless, pp Film clip: A. Rou s Fire, Water, and Copper Pipe PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROCHES TO FAIRY TALES: JUNG AND VON FRANZ Review lecture notes. Come prepared to analyze tales from Jungian and Von Franz s perspectives AA: The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa, pp AA: The Three Kingdoms, Copper, Silver, and Golden, pp THE AUTHORSHIP OF FOLKLORE Petr Bogatyrev and Roman Jakobson, Folklore as a Special Form of Creativity (PDF) Music: Modest Mussorgskii s Night on Bald Mountain Film clip: Disney s Fantasia (1940) TALL TALES Grigorii Gorin, That Very Munchausen (PDF) Film clip: M. Zakharov s That Very Munchausen Film clip: T. Gilliam s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen THE AUTHORSHIP OF FOLKLORE AND TALL TALES Review lecture notes. Come prepared to discuss Bogatyrev and Jakobson s work and Tall Tales Review for examination #2. Come to class with questions or requests to review specific material. EXAMINATION # 2 Emphasizes all materials (readings, lectures, recitations) since first examination. Examinations are not cumulative by design, but may require cumulative knowledge. For example, a question on the last examination about a tale read toward the end of the

5 RUSS 0090 Fall 2012 Syllabus 5 October 31 November 1, November 2 November 5 November 7 November 8, November 9 November 12 November 14 semester may require you to analyze the tale through the lens of an analytical method introduced in a theoretical reading toward the beginning of the semester. Alternatively, a question about a theoretical or methodological approach to fairy tales introduced toward the end of the semester may require you to compare this approach to one introduced earlier. FEMINIST APPROACH TO FAIRY TALES Ruth Bottigheimer, Silenced Women in the Grimms Tales (PDF) Marcia Lieberman, Some Day My Prince Will Come (PDF) FEMINISM, BAD WIVES AND WISE MAIDENS TALES AA: The Bad Wife, pp AA: The Goldfish, pp AA: The Wondrous Wonder, the Marvelous Marvel, pp AA: The Wise Little Girl, pp AA: The Wise Maiden and the Seven Robbers, pp AA: Vasilisa, the Priest s Daughter, pp Review lecture notes. Come prepared to analyze tales from feminist perspectives FEMINIST APPROACH, SNOW WHITE AND WICKED STEPMOTHER TALES Marina Warner, Wicked Stepmothers, (PDF) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Queen s Looking Glass (PDF) Aleksandr Afanas ev, The Magic Mirror (PDF) Film clip: Disney, Snow White (1937) SNOW WHITE AND WICKED STEPMOTHER TALES BB: pp , Aleksandr Ostrovskii, The Snow Maiden (PDF) Film clip: P. Kadochnikov s The Snow Maiden SNOW WHITE AND WICKED STEPMOTHER TALES AA: Burenushka, the Little Red Cow, pp AA: The Maiden Tsar, pp AA: Jack Frost, pp Review lecture notes. Come prepared to analyze tales from a feminist perspective INTRODUCTION TO MARXIST THEORY Jack Zipes, Breaking the Disney Spell, pp (PDF) Valentin Kataev, The Flower of Seven Colors (PDF) MARXIST APPROACH TO FAIRY TALES AA: Salt, pp Aleksei Tolstoy, The Golden Key, or The Adventure of Buratino (PDF) Film clip: D. Babichenko V. Ivan Ivanov s Pinocchio and the Golden Key

6 RUSS 0090 Fall 2012 Syllabus 6 November 15, November 16 November 20 Wednesday- Friday November MARXIST APPROACH TO FAIRY TALES Vasilii Shukshin, Before the Cock Crows Thrice (PDF) Evgenii Zamiatin, Fairy Tales for Grown-Up Children (PDF) Review lecture notes. Come prepared to analyze tales from Marxist perspective LITERARY FAIRY TALES: GOGOL' Nikolai Gogol', Viy (PDF) LI: pp Film clip: Kropachev and Ptushko s Viy Topics: Sorcery and healing NO CLASSES THANKSGIVING BREAK November 26 November 28 November 29, November 30 December 3 December 5 LITERARY FAIRY TALES: PUSHKIN AND POETRY Aleksandr Pushkin, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son, the Glorious and Mighty Knight Prince Guidon Saltonovich, and of the Fair Swan-Princess (PDF) Topics: Fairy Tales in verse CONTEMPORARY LITERARY FAIRY TALES N. Sadur, The Cute Little Redhead and Silky Hair (PDF) Tat'iana Tolstaya, Date with a Bird (PDF) LITERARY FAIRY TALES Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Revenge and The Cabbage-Patch Mother (PDF) Review lecture notes. Come prepared to analyze Russian literary fairy tales SOCIALIST REALISM AND SOVIET FAIRY TALES Katerina Clark, The Soviet Novel (PDF) Daniil Kharms, A Fairy Tale, A Fable, The Copper Look, The Four- Legged Crow (PDF) Arkadii Gaidar, Tale of the Military Secret (PDF) EXAMINATION #3 Emphasizes all materials (readings, lectures, recitations) since Examination #2. Extra-credit assignments must be submitted to Turnitin by 5:00 p.m. There is no separate final examination (although the makeup examination is held during the regular examination time, the time and place of which will be announced later in the semester).

7 RUSS 0090 Fall 2012 Syllabus 7 December 6, December 7 Monday- Saturday, December SOVIET FAIRY TALES Lazar Lagin, The Old Genie Khottabych: A Story of Make-Believe (PDF) Review lecture notes. Come prepared to analyze tales from the socialist realist approach Course evaluations MAKE-UP EXAMINATION FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK