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...widely known in Europe for his numerous essays and monographs on nineteenth-century Russian literature, particularly on his specialty, Pushkin...
Besides some advanced Russian instruction. Lednicki will teach Slavic 8 (Russian Novelists) and Slavic 110 (Pushkin), both second semester half-courses, and will give occasional lectures in Slavic 1 (Introduction to Russian Literature and Culture). Most of these lectures will probably be on the nineteenth century...
Correcting your story of last Thursday on Slavic courses for the current year, l should like to announce that Slavic 110 (Pushkin) will be taught by Professor Waclaw Lednicki, of the universities of Cracow and Brussels, the leading European Pushkin authority outside the Soviet Union, who is joining our staff this year as Visiting Lecturer. He will also give a number of lectures in Slavic 1, beside conducting Slavic 8 (a new course on the Russian novelists) and Slavic 12 (advanced Russian). I might also point out that the second half of Slavic l was taught last year...
With this view Ernest Simmons, onetime Harvard professor and biographer (1937) of Byronic Poet Alexander Pushkin, has little patience. Simmons denies the widespread notion that Siberian exile altered the thought and method of "one of the most original novelists in world literature." Dostoevski's originality combined 1) his distrust for Western European culture; 2) his belief in feeling against reason; 3) his expert, unprecedented child psychology; 4) his caustic satire, especially of radicals in The Possessed; 5) his great character types-the Meek, the Double, the Self-Willed...
...program is as follows: November 17, "Young Pushkin" (Russian) and Charlie Chaplin in "A Night at the Show," December 8, "A Nous La Liberte" and Charlie Chaplin in "'The Floorwalker." February 9, "The Wave" (Mexican) and Charlie Chaplin in "Burlesque of Carmen." March 2, "Crime and Punishment" (French) and Charlie Chaplin in "The Adventurer." March 23, "Shame of a Nation" (German) and Charlie Chaplin in "The Immigrant." April 13, "The Youth of Maxim" (Russian) and Charlie Chaplin in "The Cure...