Discover The Greats
an introduction to 19TH AND 20TH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
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Course Details
- Time Commitment
2-5 Hours Per Week
- Pace
1.5hr Class Per Week
- Duration
8 Weeks
- Starts
9th of July 2024,
18:00 (UK time/UTC+1)
- Finishes
9th of July 2024,
18:00 (UK time/UTC+1)
27th of August 2024
- Price
£280
- Course Language
English
- Difficulty
Beginner / Intermediate
- Online Course
- Live Classes
- Lesson Recordings
Overview
Our 8-week summer course guides students through a wide range of Russian literature across the 19th and 20th centuries, providing insight into the historical, biographical and socio-political backgrounds of some of the most influential Russian writers in history. On this Russian literature course, you will explore a range of poetry, theatre, and prose, with each 1.5hr lesson introducing a new movement, genre, or literary epoch every week.
What’s Included
- 8 x live Zoom classes (1.5hrs each)
- Set reading every week (provided in both English and Russian) - usually short stories or extracts.
- 'Prompt questions' to answer and discuss in class
- Two optional written assessments
- Personalised feedback on written work
- Each lesson recorded and available to watch/re-watch at your convenience
What’s Included
- 8 x live Zoom classes (1.5hrs each)
- Set reading every week (provided in both English and Russian) - usually short stories or extracts.
- 'Prompt questions' to answer and discuss in class
- Two optional written assessments
- Personalised feedback on written work
- Each lesson recorded and available to watch/re-watch at your convenience
Course Overview
Our 8-week summer course guides students through a wide range of Russian literature across the 19th and 20th centuries, providing insight into the historical, biographical and socio-political backgrounds of some of the most influential Russian writers in history. On this Russian literature course, you will explore a range of poetry, theatre, and prose, with each 1.5hr lesson introducing a new movement, genre, or literary epoch every week.
Meet the teacher
Katya is a Master’s student and Hill Scholar at the University of Oxford, specialising in Modernist Russian poetry. She holds a BA in Philology (First-Class Honours) from Petrozavodsk State University, and is certified as a teacher of Russian by Moscow State University.
Katya has many years of teaching experience, including two years teaching Russian language and Literature at Eton College. She enjoys sharing her passion for humanities with students and helping them to discover the enchanting world of Russian literature.
Free taster session
Still undecided? Enter your email below to receive the recording of our free taster session to get more of a feel for the course!
By the end of this Russian literature course, you will have gained a comprehensive and advanced knowledge of:
- The preeminent Russian literary figures of the 19th and 20th centuries, and their major works.
- Russian to English translation difficulties.
- The political, cultural, and historical events which influenced Russian literature and society.
- How to critically analyse Russian texts, and discuss them, like an Oxford scholar.
- The biographies of Russian authors, and how their experiences influenced their writing.
Pushkin
Tyutchev
Lermontov
Turgenev
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Gogol
Chekhov
Bunin
Blok
Pushkin
Tyutchev
Lermontov
Turgenev
Gorky
Akhmatova
Bulgakov
Mayakovsky
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Gogol
Chekhov
Bunin
Blok
Gorky
Akhmatova
Bulgakov
Mayakovsky
FAQs
about our Russian literature course
This course provides an introduction to Russian literature, therefore you do not need to have studied Russian literature previously in order to take part in – and get the most out of – this course. All materials, set reading and assessments are provided in both English and Russian, so you can take the course with minimal knowledge of the Russian language.
We will send you some reading to do before each lesson, which includes a brief synopsis of the texts that will be discussed in the next lesson, an overview of the authors’ biographies, some excerpts from their works to give you a sense of their style, and some preliminary questions to get you thinking about the authors and their works.
Please view our cancellation policy.
A basic knowledge of Russian would be useful in taking part in the course, as we will be looking at texts in the original Russian with their English translations. However, you do not necessarily need to know any Russian in order to take part in this course, as all classes will be conducted in English, and the teacher will translate any Russian words and phrases that are discussed during the lessons.
All of our online classes are recorded and available for students to watch or rewatch at their convenience. Therefore, if you miss a class then you will be able to catch up by watching the recorded lesson. However, we encourage students to try to attend the live classes as much as possible as this provides them with the opportunity to interact with the teacher and ask any questions they may have.
