RUSKA KNJIŽEVNOST 3-REALIZAM 1

After passing this examination, the student should: 1. describe more fully the general characteristics and periodisation of European and Russian Realism 2. Point to the cultural climate in mid-nineteenth century Russia with the emergence of two cultural movements, Slavophile and Westernised, to explain the importance of the most influential literary journals of this period in establishing Russian Realism 3. Introduce the work of Gogol as the progenitor of Russian realism and explain why the Russian Natural School can also be called the Gogolian movement 4. Successfully interpret the poetics of the post-romanticists - Tyuchev and Fet, who in the era of Russian realism remain faithful to the poetics of romanticism and reach high poetic heights;