Project Summary

One member of each group should describe in 100 words or less the project, provide a link or access to the project, identify all contributors and if possible indicate the major contributions of each to the final project.

10 thoughts on “Project Summary

  1. Hillary Chutter-Ames

    How does using these new modern forums and forms of communication and resources add to or detract from our interaction with these old texts? In our website, we created a combination of the different kinds of communication and resources that reflect this modern/traditional or 21st/19th century juxtaposition. We wanted to explore ideas of physical meeting places versus virtual forums, speed and method of communication, reading in a class versus on your own, hypertextual references and common knowledge in 19th century Russia versus today in the US, reading translations, and reflecting on the relative merits of each of these ideas and the value of modern technology in our reading and connection with these texts.
    http://community.middlebury.edu/~kwaddell/Russian_Roulette/Home.html
    Hillary Chutter-Ames, Barrett Smith, and Sarah Studwell
    We all created the website, did video podcasts, and the research pieces for The Russian Mind and Русский Язык.

  2. Nathan Goldstone

    Our project focuses on Ivan Turgenev and his most famous book, Fathers and Sons. Through our website, you are able to gain access to information about the author’s biography, along with research regarding the political and social issues of mid-nineteenth century Russia that pertain to the novel. Likewise, the blog, “A Question of Style…,” is a collection of essays on many of the subtle points within Fathers and Sons. Included on our “Related Media” page is a link to last year’s project, Turgenev Talk, which provides information primarily about Turgenev’s other works.

    You can access the site at go/turgenev or http://web.me.com/fatherssons/middturgenev/Home.html.

    Nathan Goldstone: website, essays on coats, nature, Fenechka
    Phoebe Carver: information on Nihilism, serf emancipation; other essays
    Danielle Berry: author biography podcast, character analyses

  3. Emma Stanford

    “In what way can 19th century Russian literature be put into a 21st century context to maximize the relevance of texts, most of which were written in the area of 150 years ago?” Many of the works we have read focus on topics with an abundant amount of sadness associated with them: from the suicide of Poor Liza to the suicide of Anna Karenina, the Golden Age of Russian literature is perhaps defined by its tragedy. Thus we decided that the popular 21st century website fmylife.com would serve as the perfect model to present the major themes of Russian literature in an undeniably modern way.
    The site can be found at go/fmrll
    – Emma Stanford and David Martin

  4. Patrick Ford

    Mapping Crime and Punishment
    Using Google maps we plotted the action of the novel on the St. Petersburg city streets. Maps are embedded in a blog study guide, which offers the potential for commentary and crowd participation.
    Patrick Ford
    Eugen Scherbakov
    Ben Stegmann

  5. djtaylor

    We (Erik, Ali, and Jay) did the project on Anna Karenina in the 21st century. To this end we re-created the world of Anna Karenina on Facebook. We have a group called “Tolstoy Wrote me into Anna Karenina” (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=106932012677151&v=wall&ref=search) We have created fleshed-out profiles for all the major characters and several of the more minor ones. All content is open to the public. The group’s video section contains the movie version of Anna Karenina. The group’s discussions are several of the book’s major themes. These discussions involve the relevant characters usually in their state of mind from the end of the book. Looking at the wall-to-wall conversations of the different characters will show the progression of events through the novel, with a 21st century twist (mainly in the language used)

  6. Helena Treeck

    Our international staff succeeded in compiling a high quality website that touches upon various aspects of Russian life, such as Ideologies, life style along with politics, in 19th century to create a sound background knowledge for the literature in the reader’s mind. Furthermore every book and author read in this class are presented individually. Rather than repeating what can be found online already our page aims to provide a platform to connect those who are interested to more detailed websites and interactive ways of approaching 19th century russian literature.

    We hope to have accomplished a way of connecting 19th century literature with 21st century readers.

    http://21centuryguide.webs.com/ or go/21st

    Enjoy and donate!

  7. Jarrett Dury-Agri

    We produced a PBS TV segment that introduces, contextualizes, and synthesizes the findings of a reader-response experiment. For this experiment we had two passages, from Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from the Underground” and Gogol’s “Dead Souls,” read aloud to an audience that was often or mostly uninformed about the book and context from which it was extracted. To interpret the reader responses from video-recordings and questionnaires, reporter Joanna interviews three area experts: Nelson (issues of translation), Jacob (philosophical-historical context), and Jarrett (literary theory and criticism). The resulting video hopes to be a brief, fun application of 21st-century ideas to the reality of reading 19th-century, Russian literature.

    Unfortunately, sickness has delayed our posting a finished product on Vimeo.com or RuTube.ru, but a link will soon be forthcoming. Thanks for your patience!

  8. I changed my name

    Adding on to Helena, don’t forget to Donate to us to keep the website going! The proceeds are going to a good cause

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