RU4144 Russian Crime Fiction

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

To be arranged.

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Dr C E Whitehead

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Module description

Russian crime fiction is a hugely popular genre with the contemporary reading public and yet one which remains relatively critically neglected. This module provides students with the opportunity to study the history of the practice of crime fiction in Russia from c.1860 up to the present day. Students will consider the specific socio-historical context of the birth of the genre in the reform period of the early 1860s, as well as issues of 'high' and 'low' aesthetic genres, before moving on to read a broad range of such works. Discussion throughout will focus on both the literary poetics of the works as well as their relationship to historical situation and debate. Authors to be studied include: Sokolovskii, Panov, Dostoevskii, Shkliarevskii, Chekhov, Sokolova, Shaginian and Akunin.

Assessment pattern

Practical Oral Examination = 30%, Coursework = 70%

Re-assessment

3-hour Examination = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

2 seminars and 1 surgery hour.