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| RDE4009 | Contemporary Russian Literature | 3+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of RUSSIAN LANGUAGE and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Badegül CAN EMİR | | Co-Lecturer | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Badegul CAN EMIR | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To give an idea about the situation, development and basic principles of contemporary Russian literature. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Gains the necessary information about contemporary Russian literature. | 1 - 2 - 9 | 1,3,5, | | LO - 2 : | Gains skill for literary analysis. | 1 - 2 - 9 | 1,3,5, | | LO - 3 : | Gains a critical perspective on the current literary process. | 1 - 2 - 9 | 1,3,5, | | LO - 4 : | Gains knowledge of the pluralism and artistic innovation of literary movements in contemporary literature. | 1 - 2 - 9 | 1,3,5, | | LO - 5 : | Establishes a connection between the development of world literature and artistic events with national and historical characteristics. | 1 - 2 - 9 | 1,3,5, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| A general information about Contemporary Russian literature will be given. The creativity and works of the authors of this period will be studied. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Traces of Modernity in Russian Literature: The Value of Contemporary Literature, Reading Culture, Aesthetic Criteria, and the Writer's Role in Society | | | Week 2 | The Development of Contemporary Russian Literature: The Role of Mass Literature in Modern Culture, New Information Technologies and PR, and the Search for the ?Hero of Our Time? in Contemporary Literature | | | Week 3 | Genre Classification of Contemporary Russian Literature: Neoclassical, Metaphorical, ?Other? Prose, and Postmodernism. General Characteristics and Generational Groups of Contemporary Russian Writers | | | Week 4 | From Socialist Realism to the Thaw Period, the Shestidesyatniki Generation, and the Modernization Movements of the 1960s: Economic Recovery Accompanying Liberalization, Cultural Transformation, the Cult of Personality (Kul't lichnosti Stalina), and the Processes of De-Stalinization | | | Week 5 | An Overview of Russian Literature on the Path to Modernization in the 1970s: From Brezhnev?s Era of Stagnation (Zastoy) to Gorbachev's Period of Perestroika | | | Week 6 | Underground Literature, Human-Faced Socialist Realism, Sots-Art, Moscow Conceptualism, Neobaroque, and the Poetry of Dmitri Prigov | | | Week 7 | System Critique in Post-Soviet Realism: The Reflection of the Gulag Experience in Literature , G. Vladimov's Faithful Ruslan | | | Week 8 | Testimony and Memory in Post-Soviet Realism: The Reflection of the Gulag Experience in Women's Narratives: Yevgeniya Ginzburg?s Journey into the Whirlwind | | | Week 9 | Midterm Exam | | | Week 10 | Feedback, Review, and Consolidation: An Overview of the Development of Contemporary Russian Literature from the 1970s to the Present | | | Week 11 | New Realism in the Post-Soviet Period: Social Transformation, the Search for Identity, and the ?New Woman? Figure | | | Week 12 | Female Identity, Family, and Social Transformation in the Works of Lyudmila Ulitskaya: Sonechka | | | Week 13 | he Voice of Women Writers: Female Experience, Identity. The Social Role of Women in Contemporary Russian Literature from a Feminist Perspective. Mariya Arbatova ? ?My Name Is Woman? | | | Week 14 | Psychological Realism in Contemporary Russian Literature: Moral Inquiry, Individual Loneliness, and the Modern Human Being ? Vladimir Makanin?s Asan, and Sergey Dovlatov?s The Zone and Pushkin Hills | | | Week 15 | General Review and Perspectives on Postmodernism: Intertextuality, Parody, and the Transformation of Meaning in Contemporary Russian Literature | | | Week 16 | final exam | | | |
| 1 | Leidermann, N., Lipovetski, M. 2003; Sovremennaya Russkaya Literatura, v dvuh tomah, Academia, Moskva. | | | 2 | Çernyak, M. A. Sovremennaya russkaya literatura. 2-e izdaniye. ? Moskva: Forum ? Saga, 2008. | | | 3 | Igoşeva, T. V. Sovremennaya russkaya literatura: Uçebnoe posobiye k kursu lektsiy ?Vvedeniye v sovremennuyu literaturu?. Velikiy Novgorod: Novgorodskiy gosudarstvennıy universitet imeni Yaroslava Mudrogo, 2002. | | | 4 | Gorkovenko, A. E. Sovremennaya russkaya literatura v kontekste istorii: Uçebnoe posobiye. Chita: Zabajkal?skiy gosudarstvennıy universitet (ZabGU), 2021. | | | 5 | Popova, I. M., Gubanova, T. V., & Lyubeznaya, E. V. Sovremennaya russkaya literatura: Uçebnoe posobiye. Tambov: Izd-vo Tambovskogo gosudarstvennogo tehniçeskogo universiteta, 2008. | | | |
| 1 | Suşlina, K. 2007; Sovremennıy literaturnıy protsess v Rossii, MGUP. Moskva. | | | 2 | Döneme ait eser örnekleri | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 17/11/2025 | 60 dk. | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 07/01/2026 | 60 dk. | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 7 | 1 | 7 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 7 | 1 | 7 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Diğer 1 | 5 | 5 | 25 | | Diğer 2 | 5 | 5 | 25 | | Total work load | | | 150 |
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