MARIST COLLEGE
DIVISION OF HUMANITIES
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES
ENGLISH 346 L - 111: DOSTOEVSKY IN TRANSLATION
RUSSIAN 320 L - 111: DOSTOEVSKY
INSTRUCTOR: DR. C. NORKELIUNAS
OFFICE: SAINT ANN'S HERMITAGE (located north of The Bank Of New York branch)
SEMESTER: FALL 1999
TIME: TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
REQUIRED TEXTS
Mochulsky, Konstantine. Dostoevsky: His Life And Works. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973.
Dostoevsky, Feodor. Crime And Punishment. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1989.
Dostoevsky, Feodor. Brothers Karamazov. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1989.
Dostoevsky. The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky. New York: The Modern Library, 1992. (hard cover edition)
American Heritage Dictionary (Third Edition, 1994) (IT IS MANDATORY TO BRING THIS TEXT TO CLASS)
RECOMMENDED TEXTS
Terras, Victor. History of Russian Literature. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 1991.
Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Idiot. New York: Penguin Books.
Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Possessed (The Devils). New York: Penguin Books.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Essentially, this course is the study of literature as an art form. Specifically, it is the study of the psychological novel as a genre. The course is devoted to the examination and analysis of the works of FEODOR MICHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY, Russia's most profound psychological/ religious writer. To quote the famous Russian philosopher Nicholas Berdaev: "So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world; he will bear witness for his countrymen at the last judgement of the nations."
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
INSTITUTIONAL GRADE POLICY (Consult the current college catalogue).
SURFING THE INTERNET AND MARIST E-MAIL
Every student in class should have a Marist College e-mail address. Please give this information to me the first week of the semester, or send it via e-mail. My address is JZFN@MaristB. Questions and discussions regarding topics for written assignments will be facilitated if you contact me. Be sure to make this a regular practice.
A list of Internet and WWW sites are located on my home page (the URL is http://www.academic.marist.edu/nork). This contains supplementary reference materials and other digital data pertaining to almost every aspect of course content. Keep in mind that the new college library will be opening its doors for the first time this September. Be sure to use the Marist College library's sources to do further research on Dostoevsky topics especially in writing the required term paper.
When my children come out into the street badly dressed, it hurts me when street urchins throw stones at them from behind a corner, I suffer. When a surgeon approaches them with forceps or a knife, I think I would prefer that he cut my own body.
My children are my books: I have no others.
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, while a book explodes a thousand times.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day when the first book was written. The ape has not forgotten it to this day: try and givc it a book, it will immediately spoil it, tear it up, befoul it.
23 December 1928
THE QUOTATION IS FROM EVGENY ZAMYATIN, AUTHOR OF WE.
A CHRONOLOGY OF DOSTOEVSKY'S LIFE
The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor