EN 266 - The Russian Novel and Western Literature

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Eastern Connecticut State University

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This comparative study of major Russian authors of the 19th century and their contemporaries in France, Germany, England, and America begins with short fiction and moves to novels such as Père Goriot, Crime and Punishment, A Hero of Our Time, and Madame Bovary .Russian writers include Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Tolstoy.Topics include the role of marriage and attitudes towards the family, urban versus rural existence - especially the role of the city - the fantastic in literature, narrative technique, and the development of 19th-century fiction.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.easternct.edu/

Phone Number:

(860) 465-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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