Grade+12,+Unit+5

== = = =UNIT 5: WORLD LITERATURE: RUSSIA= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How is Russian literature both timeless and affected by historical events?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =DRAMA:= = = =NOVELLAS:= = = =NOVELS:= = = =POETRY:= = = =SHORT STORIES:= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =NONFICTION:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =ART:= = = =MUSIC:= = = =MEDIA:= = = =ADDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:= = =
 * = //A Doll's House// by Henrik Ibsen =
 * = //Inherit the Wind// by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee =
 * =//Isben's Four Major Plays//=
 * = //The Government Inspector// by Nikolai Gogol (EA) =
 * = //The Seagull// (one-act play ) by Anton Chekhov (EA) =
 * = //Notes from the Underground// by Fyodor Dostoevsky (EA) =
 * = //One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich// (novella) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn =
 * = //The Death of Ivan Ilych// (novella) by Leo Tolstoy =
 * = //The Metamorphosis// (novella) by Franz Kafka =
 * =//The Steppe// (novella) by Anton Chekhov=
 * =//A Dead Man’s Memoir// by Mikhail Bulgakov=
 * = //Crime and Punishment// by Fyodor Dostoevsky =
 * = "The Twelve" by Aleksandr Blok =
 * ="To Urania" by Joseph Brodsky=
 * =//Diary of a Madman and Other Stories// by Nikolai Gogol (EA)=
 * = "Home" by Anton Chekhov (E) =
 * = "Rothschild's Fiddle" by Anton Chekhov (EA) =
 * = "Sleepy" by Anton Chekhov (EA) =
 * =//Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin// by Alexander Pushkin (selections)=
 * = //Tales of Belkin// (short story collection) by Alexander Pushkin =
 * ="The Duel" by Anton Chekhov (EA)=
 * = "The Head-Gardener's Story" by Anton Chekhov (EA) =
 * = "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol (E) =
 * = "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol (EA) =
 * ="The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich" by Nikolai Gogol (EA)=
 * =//Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Works of Daniil Kharms// by Daniil Kharms (selections)=
 * = "Ward No. 6" by Anton Chekhov (EA) =
 * ="A Slap in the Face of Public Taste" by Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksey Kruchenykh and Vladimir Mayakovsky=
 * ="Dostoyevsky‘s Metaphor of the 'Underground'" by Monroe C. Beardsley=
 * = //Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, Soviet Russia in the 1930s// by Sheila Fitzpatrick (Chapters One, Five and Eight) =
 * =//Literary St. Petersburg: A Guide to the City and Its Writers// by Elaine Blair (selections)=
 * =//My Pushkin// by Marina Tsvetaeva=
 * =//Night Wraps the Sky: Writings By and About Mayakovsky// by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Michael Almerayda, ed. (selections)=
 * =//Nikolai Gogol// by Vladimir Nabokov (Chapter One)=
 * =//Poets With History and Poets Without History// by Marina Tsvetaeva=
 * =//Russia and the Soviet Union: An Historical Introduction from the Kievan State to the Present// by John M. Thompson (Chapters Nine through Twelve)=
 * = //The Gulag Archipelago// by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (excerpts) =
 * =//The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914// by Barbara Tuchman (Chapter Two)=
 * =Marc Chagall, //I and the Village// (1911)=
 * =//St. Basil's Cathedral// (Moscow, Russia, 1555- 1561)=
 * =Wassily Kandinsky, //Moscow I// (1916)=
 * =Dmitri Shostakovich, //The Nose// (1928) Opera=
 * =Documentaries as found on //DiscoveryEducation//.com, //A&E//, and //History Channel//=
 * =REESWeb: The World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian and Eastern European Studies (University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh)=
 * =Friends & Partners—Linking U.S.-Russia Across the Internet=
 * =Informative/explanatory essay on history's impact on Russian literature.=
 * =Essay on the spiritual and emotional changes of Ivan Ilyich in Tolstoy‘s "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"=
 * =The absurd=
 * =Allusion=
 * =Antihero=
 * =Bolshevik revolution=
 * =Carnivalesque=
 * =Communism=
 * =Digression=
 * =Fantasy=
 * =Fate=
 * =Grotesque=
 * =Gulag=
 * =Irony=
 * =Narrator reliability=
 * =Paranormal=
 * =Persona=
 * =Repetition=
 * =Stalinism=
 * =Verse (syllabic, accentual, syllabic-accentual)=

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