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CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Graduate Conference: Seminar on Andrei Platonov
Saturday May 11, 2013 | 08:00 AM -05:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Board Room
‘The power of devastation [Platonov’s texts] inflict upon their subject matter exceeds by far any demands of social criticism and should be measured in units that have very little to do with literature as such,’ wrote Joseph Brodsky. The graduate course explores key texts of Andrei Platonov, who is frequently considered the greatest Russian prose writer of the twentieth century, and covers major critical approaches to his ‘devastating’ oeuvre.
Our seminar will be devoted to the intensive, close (and relatively slow) reading of Platonov's work. The texts selected include most of Platonov's better-known works, but we will by no means cover all aspects of his career. (Left by the wayside will be his early poetry, his technical articles on land reclamation, his plays and filmscripts, his literary criticism, his war stories, his fairy tales and other post-war work). Nor is this course intended to serve primarily as an introduction to Platonov's "times" or to the Soviet "literary process," although we will touch upon those areas. While our remarks in class will provide necessary contextualization throughout the semester, the primary emphasis will be on our reading of Platonov's work itself. Participants are encouraged to read Platonov's prose as they would poetry, with an eye to the interaction of language, thematics and ideology.
Professor Eric Naiman (Berkeley) and Professor Nariman Skakov (Stanford) will teach this course jointly. Participants will include graduate students from both Berkeley and Stanford, registering for the class through their home campus. The seminar will meet eight times at Berkeley and five times in Stanford. (Eric Naiman can provide transportation for up to five Berkeley participants each time we meet on the Stanford campus while Stanford students will be reimbursed for their travel expenses.) The seminar will follow the Berkeley academic calendar but will not meet during Stanford’s spring break. (No classes on March 21 or 28). On Saturday May 11, we will hold a one-day conference at the Stanford Humanities Center at which students will present their papers in the presence of two distinguished Platonov scholars Thomas Seifrid of USC and Evgeny Dobrenko of Sheffield.
Graduate Conference: Seminar on Andrei Platonov
Saturday May 11, 2013 | 08:00 AM -05:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Board Room
‘The power of devastation [Platonov’s texts] inflict upon their subject matter exceeds by far any demands of social criticism and should be measured in units that have very little to do with literature as such,’ wrote Joseph Brodsky. The graduate course explores key texts of Andrei Platonov, who is frequently considered the greatest Russian prose writer of the twentieth century, and covers major critical approaches to his ‘devastating’ oeuvre.
Our seminar will be devoted to the intensive, close (and relatively slow) reading of Platonov's work. The texts selected include most of Platonov's better-known works, but we will by no means cover all aspects of his career. (Left by the wayside will be his early poetry, his technical articles on land reclamation, his plays and filmscripts, his literary criticism, his war stories, his fairy tales and other post-war work). Nor is this course intended to serve primarily as an introduction to Platonov's "times" or to the Soviet "literary process," although we will touch upon those areas. While our remarks in class will provide necessary contextualization throughout the semester, the primary emphasis will be on our reading of Platonov's work itself. Participants are encouraged to read Platonov's prose as they would poetry, with an eye to the interaction of language, thematics and ideology.
Professor Eric Naiman (Berkeley) and Professor Nariman Skakov (Stanford) will teach this course jointly. Participants will include graduate students from both Berkeley and Stanford, registering for the class through their home campus. The seminar will meet eight times at Berkeley and five times in Stanford. (Eric Naiman can provide transportation for up to five Berkeley participants each time we meet on the Stanford campus while Stanford students will be reimbursed for their travel expenses.) The seminar will follow the Berkeley academic calendar but will not meet during Stanford’s spring break. (No classes on March 21 or 28). On Saturday May 11, we will hold a one-day conference at the Stanford Humanities Center at which students will present their papers in the presence of two distinguished Platonov scholars Thomas Seifrid of USC and Evgeny Dobrenko of Sheffield.
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The Calendar of Events lists events sponsored and co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. For a more comprehensive listing of university-wide events, see the Stanford Event Calendar.