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• 1 2017-05-26T12:07:17-07:00 RUSsian ResEARch Lab 16 The course page for Russian language lab plain 2017-05-26T17:15:12-07:00
  CSLC 134 / RUSN 334 is a combined course with a single syllabus and regular twice-weekly meetings, which alternate between lecture-discussion and lab, which meets in the Varelas Innovation Lab, a multimedia enhanced instructional space with projection screens and wireless collaboration technology. Students registered for the 100-level introductory course in the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture are not expected to know Russian, but features of the language, such as grammar, phonology, and alphabet, figure prominently in the curriculum and research. Consistent with the learning goals of the Department, they learn through description how language as a constituent element of culture. 
  
  Students with a basic proficiency in the Russian language were eligible to register for a 5-unit version of "Exploding Tongues," RUSN 334, which met for an additional weekly instructional hour for language related learning activities. The purpose of this course variant is to deepen students' comprehension of written Russian through active decoding of authentic foreign language content in a research context. The unique qualities of the course material present both challenges and opportunities for "content-based" language learning. In-depth treatment of zaum, or invented "trans-sense" language (to use the term of its creators) in poetry, prose and drama, for example, does not serve as an efficient vehicle for developing everyday communicative proficiencies. The systematic abstraction of sounds from meanings by native speakers in a cultural context, however, presents students with unusual access to the underbelly of the language, and highlights subtle distinctions between orality and literacy as the motivating force (or dominant, to use a contemporary term from the Russian Formalists) of the language arts. 
  
  As a combined course, students in CSLC 134 and RUSN 334 comprised a multi-talented research team. In Russian section, students of RUSN 334 confronted significant obstacles of decoding written documents with intentionally irregular and messy handwriting. Their work would more typically be with graduate level study of manuscript documents. In this instance, however, the materials ...
  
  Cultural historical materials from the Russian Avant-garde
  
  Listen to voice recordings of poetry, including Roman Jakobson's 1959 recording. Memorize and declaim Khlebnikov's Zakliatie smekhom (Incantation by Laughter), read and compare Khlebnikov's own 1918 manuscript
  
  Declamation: pronunciation of transrational language
  Theoretical 
  Semantics:
  Zaum as a 
  
  Tango with Cows
• 1 2017-04-06T09:51:37-07:00 SNIFFING SHIFT: Russian/Zaum "Kak" and "Bul" as Scatology 4 Presentation by Professor Walt Richmond (Occidental College, Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture) plain 2017-04-30T14:13:58-07:00 Professor Walt Richmond (Occidental, Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture), guest-lectured on "Shiftology" (Zdvigologiia) in Russian Avant-Garde poetics. Below is his own translation of Igor Terent'ev's introductory article "When There Are No Mistakes" to 17 Nonsensical Instruments (17 Erundovykh orudii).