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Primary readings
(Mandelstam's collected work) are on reserve at Green Library
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| Secondary reading
assignments, general and and supplementary bibliographical guides will be
distributed in class
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Week
Date
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Readings and Discussion Topics
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I.
Jan. 13
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Introduction: Mandelstam and the Modernist Paradigm,C hronology and
Periodization
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Editions and Publication; Memoirs
and Scholarship; Approaches to Mandelstam |
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Mandelstam and the
Modernist Paradigm |
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Камень.
Первая книга стихов (1913) |
Reading: Poems «Звук
осторожный...», «Дано
мне тело», «Silentium» (1910), «Айя-София»,
«Notre Dame». |
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II.
Jan. 20
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Mandelstam’s Early Poetry and Prose in the Context of Russian
Modernism and the 1905 Revolution, Revolt Against Symbolism
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Вехи
(The Signposts, ed. M.O. Gershenzon)
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Crisis of Symbolism |
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Цех
поэтов (Poets' Guild) |
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Futurist and Acmeist manifestoes
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Reading:
Mandelstam’s first books of poetry (Камень,
1913 and 1916);
Essays:
«Франсуа Виллон» «Утро Акмеизма», «О собеседнике» |
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III.
Jan. 27
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Patterns of Identity and Cultural Archetypes. A Comparative
Perspective: Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Gumilev, Mayakovsky
Reading:
Камень (the second book of poetry, 1916)
Essay
«Пушкин и Скрябин»
Selections of the new
“city” poems from Akhmatova, Gumilev. Mayakovsky |
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IV.
Feb. 3
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Ontogeny
Recapitulates Phylogeny: Mandelstam Tristia (War, Revolution, and Uses of
Antiquity)
Reading:
Tristia (1921)
Optional:
Freidin,
Reading:
«Rome» poems, «Зверинец», «Когда октябрьский нам готовил временщик»,
The poems of Tristai
(«Сумерки свободы», :Декабрист», «Исаакий под фатой молочной белизны»
Essays: «Петр
Чаадаев», «Слово и культура», «О природе слова»
Optional:
monographs by Broyde, Ronen, and Taranovsky;
A Coat of Many Colorsi.
Timenchik, «Заметки
об акмеизме»
I, II, and III |
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Feb. 6 |
First paper due (analysis of a poem) |
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V.
Feb. 10
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1921-25: Discontinuities and Conjunctions. Contemporary Reception.
Mandelstam and Futurism Revisited
Poetry:
«Концерт на вокзале», «Век», «Грифельная ода», «1 января 1924»
Read/Review:
O. Ronen, Ronen, O. An Approach to Mandel'stam. Jerusalem, 1984. |
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VI.
Feb.17
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Mandelstam the Critic: On
Poetry (1928), the Puzzle of Alexander Blok , and a Cinversation
About Dante (Dialogue with the Formalists and Bakhtin’s Circle)
Read/Review: О поэзии, «Армия
поэтов»,
«Конец
Романа»,
Разговор
о
Данте
(On Poetry, «An
Army of Poets», «The End of the Novel», Conversation About Dante)
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VII.
Feb. 24
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Memories and Surrender: The Noise
of Time and The Egyptian Stamp
(Mandelstam, Konstantin Vaginov,
Zoshchenko, Ilf and Petrov and Self-Image of Russian Intelligentsia)
Reading:
Шум
времени, Египетская
марка, Четвертая
Проза
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Feb. 27
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Second Paper Due
(a reading of a prose piece)
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VIII.
Mar. 3
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Moscow Notebooks: Mandelstam
and the Culture of the First Five-Year Plan
Prose:
Путешествие
в Армению (Journey
to Armenia), selections
Poetry:
Московские
тетради («Еще
далеко мне
до
патриарха», «Квартира
тиха, как
бумага», «На
смерть
Андрея
Белого», «Стихи
о русской
поэзии,» «Восьмистишия,»
«Мы живем,
под собою не
чуя страны»)
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IX.
Mar. 10
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Mandelstam and Stalin: The Poet
Remembered
Reading: Воронежские
тетради (The Voronezh
Notebooks, the “Ode” and the "Ode" cycle)
Memoirs of Nadezhda Mandelstam and
Emma Gershtein
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X.
Mar. 17
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Mandelstam, Sots-Art, Timur Kibirov, Sergey Gandlevsky and the
Paradigms of Soviet Experience
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Mar. 20 |
Third paper due ( a book review) |
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