Russian Classical Literature - Russian Realism

The course is a further historical overview of the evolution of the 19th century Russian literature with an emphasis on the development of Russian realism.
It offers an insight into the literary evolution and the development of the literary genre system from the 1830s and early 1840s (Pushkin's, Lermontov's and Gogol's work in this period and the phenomenon of the “natural school”), as well as an overview of the early works of the authors which later dominate the Russian prose in the 1860s (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy). In addition to the analysis of the evolution of Russian realistic prose the course sheds some light on other areas of literature of that period (Nekrasov's poetry and Ostrovsky's plays), but it's main focus is the presentation of the great Russian novel of the 1860s-1870s (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev) also including the insight into poetics and typology of the Russian novel.

- Aleksandar Flaker, O realizmu. V: Aleksandar Flaker in Zvonko Škreb, Stilovi i razdoblja. Zagreb 1964, str. 213–235. COBISS.SI-ID - 310017
- Aleksandar Flaker, Ruski klasici XIX. stolječa. Zagreb 1965, str. 57–306. COBISS.SI-ID - 341294
- M. V. Jones, R. Feuer Miller, The Cambridge companion to the Classic Russian Novel. Cambridge 1998. COBISS.SI-ID - 43254273
- Janko Kos, Roman o Bazarovu. V: I. S. Turgenjev,Očetje in sinovi. Ljubljana 1966, str. 5–42. COBISS.SI-ID - 17547265
- Bratko Kreft, Spremna beseda. V: F. M. Dostojevski, Besi. Ljubljana 1960. 914 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 1580801
- Dušan Pirjevec, Bratje Karamazovi in vprašanje o bogu. V: F. M. Dostojevski, Bratje Karamazovi. Ljubljana 1976, str. 5–180. COBISS.SI-ID - 3624193
- Aleksander Skaza, Dostojevski-umetnik. V: F. M. Dostojevski, Mali junak. Ljubljana 1970, str. 125–141. COBISS.SI-ID - 15473920
- Aleksander Skaza, Pripovedništvo L. N. Tolstoja. V: L. N. Tolstoj, Povest včerajšnjega dne. Ljubljana 1972, str. 158–170. COBISS.SI-ID - 2807809
- Aleksander Skaza, Literarno-estetski nazor F. M. Dostojevskega. Kronološki pregled življenja in dela F. M. Dostojevskega. V: F. M. Dostojevski, Nova beseda. Ljubljana 1989, str. 258–305. COBISS.SI-ID - 14113792
- Josip Vidmar, I. A. Gončarov. V: I. A. Gončarov, Oblomov. Ljubljana 1965, str. 5–38. COBISS.SI-ID - 3616769
- Urša Zabukovec, »Nespodobna anekdota Dostojevskega in »kočljivo obdobje« šestdesetih let.« V: F. M. Dostojevski, Nespodobna anekdota. Ljubljana 2007. Str. 75–115. COBISS.SI-ID - 233334528

Ob študijski literaturi je za predmet vsako leto predpisana obvezna lektira – seznam literarnih del, ki jih mora študent prebrati za pristop k izpitu.