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Lecturer(s)
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Varga Patrik, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Čadajeva Olga, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. The development of Russian children's literature before 1917 2. Soviet children's literature in the 1920s and early 1930s 3. Soviet children's literature in the 1930s and 1940s 4. Soviet children's literature during the Thaw 5. Late Soviet children's literature 6. Post-Soviet children's literature Main authors: Prose: Antony Pogorelsky, Lidia Charskaya, Lev Kassil, Vitaly Bianki, Veniamin Kaverin, Aleksey Tolstoy, Alexander Volkov, Arkady Gaidar, Nikolai Nosov, Eduard Uspensky, Kir Bulychev, Grigory Oster Poetry: Ivan Krylov, Alexander Pushkin, Pyotr Yershov, Sasha Chorny, Korney Chukovsky, Samuil Marshak, Agnia Barto, Daniil Kharms, Sergei Mikhalkov, Boris Zakhoder, Genrich Sapgir
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Demonstration
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Learning outcomes
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The course is devoted to the study of Russian children's literature from a historical, aesthetic and pedagogical perspective from its emergence in the 18th-19th centuries to contemporary post-Soviet texts. The focus is on the main stages in the development of children's literature, changes in artistic models of childhood, genre forms and educational strategies, as well as the connection between literary works and the socio-historical and cultural context of the era. The course includes six lectures and six seminars. The seminars analyse compulsory works and texts chosen by the students. Literary works are examined in three interrelated aspects: as artistic texts (genre, style, plot, narrative strategies), as pedagogical statements (educational goals, models of socialisation, ideas about childhood), and as phenomena of the historical and cultural process. The course develops skills in literary analysis, critical understanding of children's literature as a distinct artistic form, and an understanding of its role in shaping cultural and pedagogical ideas about childhood.
Ability to analyse arbitrary poetic texts, relate the content of the analysed text to broader cultural and historical context, extended vocabulary including terminology.
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Prerequisites
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The course is designed for master's degree students. Advanced knowledge of Russian is required, as well as knowledge of historical development of Russian literature and major authors.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Seminar Work
seminar attendance with a maximum of 2 weeks' absence per semester completion of assignments, preparedness, and active participation in the discussions seminar paper (essay) on a chosen topic (to be specified during the semester)
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Recommended literature
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Balina, Marina, and Larissa Rudova. Russian Children's Literature and Culture. Vol. 48. New York. 2008.
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Mešalkin, Aleksandr Nikolaevič, a Andrej Rudol?fovič Lopatin. Russkaja detskaja literatura XX veka. Kostroma. 2014.
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