The literary movement of the beginning of the 19th century. Major literary trends and their interrelation. Romantism in Russian literature. V. Zhukovskij’s biography and creative work. The literary society „Arzamas“. A. Gribojedov’s biography and creative work. The periodisation of A. Pushkin’s creative work. A. Pushkin’s poetry (lyric and poems). A. Pushkin’s drama works („Boriss Godunov“, „Malenkiye tragedii“). A.Pushkin’s realism („Jevgeni Onegin“). A. Pushkin’s novels („Povesti Belkina“, „Pikovaya dama“, „Kapitanskaya dotchka“). M. Lermontov’s biography. M. Lermontov’s poetry (lyric and poems). M. Lermontov’s novel „Geroj nashego vremeni“. N. Gogol’s biography and creative work. („Mirgorod“, „Peterburgskie povesti“, „Revizor“, „Mertvye Dushi“). The Neutral School. The tradition of critique (V. Belinskij, I. Panaev). I. Gontčarov’s biography and creative work. The literary magazines of the 1860-s, prose, poetry. I. Turgenev’s biography and creative work („Zapiski ohotnika“, „Rudin“, „Otcy i deti“, „Dym“, „Nakanune“). N. Nekrasov’s, F. Tjutčev’s, A. Fet’s, A. Tolstoj’s poetry. M. Saltykov-Stšedrin’s biography and creative work („Istoriya odnogo goroda“). F. Dostojevskij’s biography and creative work („Prestuplenie i nakazanie“, „Idiot“, „Besy“, „Bratja Karamazovy“ and other). L.Tolstoi’s biography and creative work („Kazaki“, „Voina i mir“, „Anna Karenina“, „Voskresenie“ and other). N. Leskov’s biography and creative work („Soboryane“, „Nekuda“, „Zheleznaya volya“, „Kolyvanskyi muzh“, „Na kraju sveta“ and other). A.Tshekhov’s biography and creative work. A. Tshekhov’s drama.

XX century Russian literature phenomenon, tendencies and peculiarities. Place of XX century Russian Literature in the World literature The Recent Russian Literature Seminars, that are arranged on the base of previously given lektûr with the purpose to define writer’s and his works’ place in the recent Russian literature; to fix connections with literature tradition and/or novelty. The Main Features of the Recent Russian Literature. Recent Russian Prose through the lens of tradition and novelty. Annual literary award as a benchmark in the world of Russian literature.

Most important literary methods and trends in cultural theory (modernism, realism, existentialism, postmodernism, feminism, postcolonial theory, memory and trauma studies, ecocriticism, animal studies, health humanities, new materialism, transmodernism) with a stress on the culture of English-speaking countries and their peculiarities. The most recent literary forms (blog, graphic novel, fanfiction, the network novel and their intermediality, i.e., interaction with other media, such as art and film) will not be overlooked. The choice of writers varies, according to the thematic focus, which is topical at the given moment, as well as the research profiles of the lecturers and interests of the students. Among the literatures handled in the course are British, American, Irish, Scottish, Indian, Anglophone Caribbean, Canadian, African, Australian, New Zealand, etc. The approach to the writers’ oeuvre will be based on selected works and placed in a wider cultural, political, literary-historical and theoretical context. Lectures and seminars, group discussions, group work, analytical essays.