Class meets on Wednesdays from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Carr Hall 406
| Instructor: | Maxim Tarnawsky | 121 St. Joseph St. | Alumni Hall 403 |
| tarn@chass.utoronto.ca | 416–978–8972 |
| Course Schedule |
| Schedule of Class Meetings | |||
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| Week | Date | Topic | Assigned Reading |
| Week 1. Wed | Sept 13 | Introduction. History, Myth, Fiction. Visual images | |
| Week 2. Wed | Sept 20 | The Ukrainian Cossacks | Paul Robert Magocsi. A History of Ukraine. Chapters 14–24. pp. 170–302 (1st ed.) or 177–306 (2nd ed.). |
| Week 3. Wed | Sept 27 | Folklore. Neoclassicism | Ukrainian Dumy and The Aeneid, excerpt. |
| Week 4. Wed | Oct 4 | Nikolai Gogol | Niolai Gogol, Taras Bulba. |
| Week 5. Wed | Oct 11 | Taras Shevchenko. Nikolai Gogol Assignment 1 due. | Taras Shevchenko. "The Haidamaks," Poems, Gogol. "A Terrible Vengeance" |
| Week 6. Wed | Oct 18 | A Jewish View of Khmelnytsky | Sholom Ash. Kiddush Ha-Shem |
| Week 7. Wed | Oct 25 | A Polish View of Khmelnytsky | Henryk Sienkiewicz. With Fire and Sword. This is a VERY long novel. The chapters you MUST read are these: 1–4, 6, 8–23, and 26–36. |
| Week 8. Wed | Nov 1 | Cossacks and Nationbuilding | Panteleimon Kulish. The Black Council. |
| Nov 8 | No Class! | November pause! | |
| Week 9. Wed | Nov 15 | Hetman Ivan Mazepa | Lord Gordon George Byron, "Mazeppa" Alexander Pushkin, "Poltava" Victor Hugo, "Mazeppa", in French. If you can read French, please have a look. |
| Week 10. Wed | Nov 22 | Don Cossacks, servants or enemies of the empire? Assignment 2 due. | Leo Tolstoy. The Cossacks Alexander Pushkin, "The Captain's Daughter" |
| Week 11. Wed | Nov 29 | Bolsheviks, Jews, and Don Cossacks as modern soldiers | Isaac Babel. Red Cavalry |
| Week 12. Wed | Dec 6 | In class screening of Mamay. This film is part of the course requirements. In class exam. | Mamay You're writing your papers! |
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