Learning outcomes

To deepen students' knowledge of the cultural history of Russia.

Contents

Students become familiar with some sector of popular culture and folklore.

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (1999, 40): “Literatura i kommercija: pisatel´skie strategii na knižnom rynke”; Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (1996, 22): “Problemy izučenija detektiva: opyt nemeckogo literaturovedenija”, “Massovaja literatura kak problema. Dlja kogo? Razdražënnye zametki čeloveka so storony”, “Detektiv, kotorogo čitajut vse: čto-to vrode sociologičeskogo postskriptuma”, “Formula ženskogo sčast´ja. Zametki o ženskom ljubovnom romane”, ”Rozovyj roman kak mašina želanij” Stites, R., Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia. 1995; Nekrylova, A.F., Russkie narodnye gorodskie prazdniki, uveselenija i zrelišča. 1988; Kenez, P., Cinema and Soviet Society. 2002; Bulanin, D. (red.), Razvlekatel'naja kul'tura Rossii XVIII-XIX vv. Ocerki istorii i teorii. 2000; Čistov, K. V. (toim.), Venäläinen perinnekulttuuri. 1976; Černjak, M.A., Fenomen massovoj literatury XX veka. 2005; Lovell, S. - Menzell, B. (eds.), Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia. 2005; Stites, R., Russian Popular Culture. Experiment and Society since 1900. 1992; Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. 1999; Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 40. 1999; Barker, A., Consuming Russia. popular Culture, sex and Society since Gorbachev. 1999; Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 22. 1996.

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