Russian Language and Literature 38 - Special Topics in Russian Literature

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Dartmouth College

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08F, 10S: 2 This course is devoted to Russian drama and theatre from the 18th through the 21st century. We will read eight plays: Denis Fonvizin The Minor, Alexander Pushkin Boris Godunov, Nikolai Gogol The Government Inspector, Alexander Ostrovsky The Storm, Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya, Nikolai Erdman The Suicide, Mikhail Bulgakov The Days of the Turbins, and Alexander Vampilov The Elder Son, that are central to Russian literary and theatrical tradition and then discuss their most significant interpretations on both the Russian and the world stage.The meetings will be conducted in a non-traditional format. In our examination of the plays, we will attempt to model the process of stage production in accordance with the principles developed by Konstantin Stanislavsky-a celebrated Russian director whose approach to theatre transformed acting in Russia and beyond. There will be no papers for this class! Instead, we will engage in a variety of analytical and artistic tasks that will take us through some of the essential steps for the theatrical interpretation of a dramatic text: roundtable analysis; completion of a character's biography; the "magic if" and the "given circumstances" technique; etude work, eAll readings are in English. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Somoff.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.dartmouth.edu

Phone Number:

(603) 646-1110

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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