Russian Poetry from Pushkin to Brodsky (SERS0025)

Key information

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Teaching department: School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Credit value: 15

Restrictions: This module requires at least an intermediate knowledge of Russian, and is suitable for students on a degree with Russian who have completed Year 1A or Year 1.
Timetable

Alternative credit options

This module is offered in several versions which have different credit weightings (e.g. either 15 or 30 credits). Please see the links below for the alternative versions. To choose the right one for your programme of study, check your programme handbook or with your department.

Russian Poetry A (SERS0070)

Description

This module introduces students to the major poets and themes of the Russian poetic tradition, advances the ability to read in the original, and develops skills of critical analysis of poetic texts. To this end, it is based on a selection of texts from the 19th and 20th century, grouped under a series of broader or narrower thematic headings. The poems are chosen with a number of additional criteria in mind as well, such as accessibility in terms of language, variety (which may lead to the odd more difficult text), and links to other texts. The thematic headings provide material for one to three weeks, with on average three short poems per week. For contrast, three weeks are devoted to a detailed study of a longer work, Pushkin's controversial narrative poem Mednyi Vsadnik. Two module booklets containing all the poems studied on the course (apart from Pushkin's Mednyi Vsadnik), together with audio-recordings of the poems, are provided on Moodle.

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Terms 1 and 2 听听听 Undergraduate (FHEQ Level 5)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study: In person
Methods of assessment: 100% Fixed-time remote activity
Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year: 8
Module leader: Professor Pamela Davidson
Who to contact for more information: ssees-lc@ucl.ac.uk

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.

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