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Study Plan

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Laurea magistrale in Languages, Literatures and Digital Culture - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
One module among the following (philology must be related to one of the chosen languages)
6
B
L-FIL-LET/09
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
One module among the following (philology must be related to one of the chosen languages)
6
B
L-FIL-LET/09

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Teaching code

4S010852

Teacher

Anna Giust

Coordinator

Anna Giust

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

Language

Russian ru

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/21 - SLAVIC STUDIES

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 26, 2022 al Dec 23, 2022.

Learning objectives

During the course the analyses of specific topics and critical approaches related to Russian literature will be carried out. At the end of the course students will be able to: 1) gain the necessary critical knowledge to understand the literary issues focused on during the course and in particular referring to narrative and poetical forms and genres (LM37), as well as to history of relations between Russian literature and the publishing world (LM19); 2) carry out a deep and coherent textual and comparative analysis using the acquired knowledge; 3) express autonomous and complex opinions about specific moments in Russian literary history and its methodological issues.

Prerequisites and basic notions

English language level C1
Russian language level C1

Program

Course title: Russian culture and literature in the 18th century: texts and contexts.
Themes:
- historical periodization (from Peter I to Paul I);
- the critical-aesthetic debate
- literary genres: epistle, tragedy, comedy and other scenic genres, ode and other panegyric genres, historical prose, fiction - individual authors: Trediakovsky, Lomonosov, Sumarokov Radishchev, Fonvizin, Ablesimov, Knyazhnin, Karamzin
- intelligentsia, ideology and power

Bibliography

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Didactic methods

Lectures
Reading, analysis (linguistics and stylistics) and commentary on the texts in the program

Learning assessment procedures

Oral exam

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Evaluation criteria

- accuracy and completeness in terms of contents
- adequate analysis abilities
- clarity in the exposition, argumentative ability
- mastery of the subject-specific vocabulary

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

Literary history and criticism: 15/30
Textual analysis: 15/30

Exam language

English and Russian