Classics of Russian literature [videorecording] / Irwin Weil.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher number: 2830 | Teaching CompanySeries: Great courses (DVD)Publication details: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2006.Edition: Library edDescription: 6 videodiscs (ca. 18 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 223 p. ; 22 cm.)ISBN:
  • 1598031864
  • 9781598031867
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006
Contents:
pt. 1. (discs 1-2) (lectures 1-12). Origins of Russian literature ; Curch and the folk in Old Kiev ; Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799-1837 ; Exile, rustic seclusion, and Onegin ; December's uprising and two poets meet ; Poet contrasts talent versus mediocrity ; St. Petersburg glorified and death embraced ; Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', 1809-1852 ; Russian grotesque, overcoats to dead souls ; Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821-1881 ; Near mortality, prison, and an underground ; Second wife and a great crime novel begins -- pt. 2. (discs 3-4) (lectures 13-24). Inside the troubled mind of a criminal ; Generation of the Karamazovs ; Novelistic presence of Christ and Satan ; Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 ; Tale of two cities and a country home ; Family life meets military life ; Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord ; Family life makes a comeback ; Tolstoy the preacher ; Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818-1883 ; Stresses between two generations ; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860-1904 -- pt. 3. (discs 5-6) (lectures 25-36). M. Gorky (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 1868-1936 ; Literature and revolution ; Tribune - Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893-1930 ; Revolution makes a u-turn ; Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905-1984 ; Revolutions and civil war ; Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895-1958 ; Among the godless - religion and family life ; Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960 ; Poet in and beyond society ; Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, born 1918 ; Many colors of Russian literature.
Professor Irwin Weil.Summary: Thirty six lectures by Irwin Weil, of Northwestern University, exploring the history of Russian literature from its origins through the twentieth century.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Disc 1. 98643268
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Disc 2. 98643269
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006 PT.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Disc 3. 98643271
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006 PT.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Disc 4. 98643270
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006 PT.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Disc 5. 98643272
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006 PT.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Disc 6. 98643273
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006 GDBK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Accompanying Guidebook. 98643267
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006 TRANS PT.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Lecture booklet part 1. 98643264
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006 TRANS PT.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Lecture booklet part 2. 98643265
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD PG 2945 .W45 2006 TRANS PT.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Lecture booklet part 3. 98643266

DVD

Professor Irwin Weil.

In three parts (containers). Each part consists of twelve lectures on two discs.

Thirty six lectures by Irwin Weil, of Northwestern University, exploring the history of Russian literature from its origins through the twentieth century.

pt. 1. (discs 1-2) (lectures 1-12). Origins of Russian literature ; Curch and the folk in Old Kiev ; Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799-1837 ; Exile, rustic seclusion, and Onegin ; December's uprising and two poets meet ; Poet contrasts talent versus mediocrity ; St. Petersburg glorified and death embraced ; Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', 1809-1852 ; Russian grotesque, overcoats to dead souls ; Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821-1881 ; Near mortality, prison, and an underground ; Second wife and a great crime novel begins -- pt. 2. (discs 3-4) (lectures 13-24). Inside the troubled mind of a criminal ; Generation of the Karamazovs ; Novelistic presence of Christ and Satan ; Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 ; Tale of two cities and a country home ; Family life meets military life ; Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord ; Family life makes a comeback ; Tolstoy the preacher ; Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818-1883 ; Stresses between two generations ; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860-1904 -- pt. 3. (discs 5-6) (lectures 25-36). M. Gorky (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 1868-1936 ; Literature and revolution ; Tribune - Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893-1930 ; Revolution makes a u-turn ; Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905-1984 ; Revolutions and civil war ; Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895-1958 ; Among the godless - religion and family life ; Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960 ; Poet in and beyond society ; Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, born 1918 ; Many colors of Russian literature.

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