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CoLt 407/507 Seminar:
Russian Folklore & Comparative Theory
2001wi:CRN: 22146/22152
Credits: 04-05
UO Grading Option (all students): Optional
Majors Grading Option (majors only): Optional
PLEASE NOTE: DUCK HUNT may not yet list the correct time for this
seminar:
Time/Location: UH 11:00-12:20 <or later time ending 2:00 LATEST> / 246 GER
Professor James Rice
describes the course:
The seminar introduces the concept of 'folk' ('narod') in Russian history and
literature, the interaction of Russian oral tradition and literature, and the unusually
productive theoretical contributions by famous folklorists in Russian and comparative
fields:
 | Afanasiev |
| Bogatyrev |
| Jakobson |
| Lord |
| Propp, and |
| Putilov |
Relevant Western thinkers will be considered:
| Frazer |
| Freud |
| Jung, and |
| Bettelheim |
Specimens of Russian folklore (in translation) will be discussed, and
the influence of folklore upon some great Russian writers:
| Pushkin |
| Turgenev |
| Dostoevsky, and |
| Tolstoy |
One midterm exam - one short paper to be presented in class -- no final.
The Seminar in terms gone by:
99wi:CRN: 25947 / 25948 Credits: 04-05 (other
credit options, contact Prof. Rice)
Time/Location: 12:30-13:50 UH / 303 GER
| National and universal aspects of folklore |
| Oral tradition and comparative literature |
| Folklore in Russian history and culture |
| Theories of verbal art spun from Slavic folklore |
AMONG MAJOR WORKS AND ISSUES:
| Carlo Levi, CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI <& witchcraft in Russia today> |
| Vladimir Propp, MORPHOLOGY OF THE FOLK TALE <narrative strategy> |
| Albert Lord, SINGER OF TALES <myth today> |
| Afanasiev, RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES <universal fictions> |
| Freud, "The Schreber Case" <pathological roots of mythic experience> |
| Bettelheim, USES OF ENCHANTMENT <therapewutic values of art> |
| Jung, "On the Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales" <mythic
experience, spirit and cosmology> |
| Kate Bernheimer, ed., MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL <women writers explore their
favorite fairy tales> |
| Maria Gimbutas, LANGUAGE OF THE GODDESS <eros past & future> |
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