Christ in Russian Culture and Literature (U03296)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-4-U03296

The aim of this course is to provide Russian Studies Honours students with a perspective on the cultural history of Orthodox Christianity in Russia from the 10th to the end of the 20th Century. Over this entire period Christ served as a standardizing model of representation as well as of behaviour; textual and pictorial documents such as hagiography, liturgy and fiction, the icon, the iconostas and modern canvas painting interacted and still interact with the normative habitus of the followers (imitators) of Christ. Moreover, a better understanding of christological and christographic structures provides a key to the topoi used in non-Christian Russian and Soviet contexts of the 19th and 20th Century.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

European Languages and Cultures - Russian Studies, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	09:00	10:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students should be able to: work with different media of religious representation and describe recurrent structures in the image of Christ and of his followers. Religion is to be understood in its "symbiotic" correlation to textual and pictorial representations. Students should be able to analyse and weigh up the persistence of traditional models against historical transformations. The course will help the students acquire a critical perspective on the theory of secularisation by making them sensitive to historical continuity intertwined with change.