First
week
Jan. 17
Introduction
to course
Jan. 19
From
Leo Tolstoy, Collected Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read Master and Man [pp.541-596 (1895)]
Second
week
Jan. 24
From
Leo Tolstoy, Collected Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read Father
Sergius [pp.
395-444 (1890-98)].
Jan. 26
From
Leo Tolstoy, Collected Shorter Fiction, vol 2, pleasae read A
Spark Neglected
Burns the House [pp. 1-19 (2885)].
Third
week
Jan..
31
From
Leo Tolstoy, Collected Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read The Death of Ivan Ilych [pp. 109-172 (1886)
Feb 2
We shall continue disucssion of The Death of Ivan Ilych [pp. 109-172 (1886)
Fourth
week
Feb
7
From
Leo Tolstoy, Collected Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read "Four Late Stories" - After the Ball (1903), The Forged Coupon (1904), pp. 859 ff.
Feb 9
First
take-home exam due.
You may send it as an MS WORD
file via Internet or bring it to class.
From
Leo Tolstoy, Collected Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read Alyosha
Gorshok (1905), What For? (1906)
- to p. -967.
Fifth
week
Feb.
14
Please read, Resurrection,
Part I, pp. 19-100 (up to chpt. 41).
Feb.
16
Please read, Resurrection,
Part I, pp. 100-187 (up to chpt. 41).
Sixth
week
Feb.21
From
Leo Tolstoy, Collected Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read Kreutzer Sonata
Feb.23
We shall continue
discussion of Kreutzer Sonata in class.
Seventh
week
Feb.
28 -
Towm Meeting Day - No Class
March 2
Please read Resurrection,
Part II, pp. 187-200 (up to chpt. 44).
Eighth
week
March.
7
Please read,
Resurrection,
Part II, pp. 201-279 (up to chpt. 5).
March. 9
Second take-home exam due.
You may also send it as an MS WORD file via Internet.
Please read, Resurrection,
Part III, pp. 280-374 (up to chpt.
25).
Ninth
week
March.
14
Please read, Resurrection,
Part III, pp. 375-431 (up to chpt
37, Part III).
March.
16
Student conferences - please email
in advance if you wish to meet me in the office.
Tenth
week
March.
21
Spring
Break - No class!
Eleventh week
March 28
Please read Resurrection,
Part III, pp. 431-501 (up to chpt. 12).
March 30
Please finish reading, Resurrection,
Part III, pp. 501-567
Twelfth week
April 4
From
Leo Tolstoy, Collected Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read "Stories Given to Aid
the Pursecuted Jews"
- Esarhaddon,
King of Adsyria (1903), Work,
Death and Sickness (1903). Three
Questions (1903) - pp. 741-756.
Also read Fedor
Kuzmich (1905), pp. 757-780
April 6
From
Leo Tolstoy, Collected Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read A Talk
Among Leisured People (1893), pp. 467-474 and Walk
in the
Liught While there is Light (1893), pp. 475-530).
Thirteenth
week
April
11
From
Tolstoy's Confession, please read
to p. 33 (up to chpt. V). The short introduction by E. J.
Simmons is
worthwhile.
The very
nature of this
literature is such that more than one reading of it will be most
helpful. From
Leo Tolstoy, From
Collected
Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read Francoise (1982), pp.
457-466.
April
13
Passover / Good Friday - No class!
Fourteenth
week
April 18
From
Tolstoy's Confession, please read to
p. 49 (up to
chpt. VII.
From Collected
Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read The Coffe House of Surat (1893),
pp. 531-540 and Too Dear (1897),
pp. 597-604.
April
20
From
Tolstoy's Confession, please read to
p. 64 (up to chpt. X). From Collected
Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read "Stories
Written to Pictures,
" Evil Allures, but Good
Endures, Little Girls Wiser than Men, Ilyas (all 1885), pp. 97-108
Fifteenth
week
April 25
From
Tolstoy's Confession, please read to
p. 76 (up to chpt. XIII). From Collected
Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read
Three Hermits, The Imp and the Crust (both
1886), pp. 173-188.
April
27
From
Tolstoy's Confession, please
read to
p. 93. This completes your reading of the work.
From Collected
Shorter Fiction, vol 2, please read A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg, The Godson
(both 1886). pp. 209-234.
Sixteenth
week (15 week term + week of Spring Break)
May 2
Summing up. Your discussion!
The final exam must be handed in on paper
or Emailed as an MS WORD attachment
before Tuesday, May 9 @ 12 noon. Extensions
beyond this point are NOT possible.