Rus 151 - Literature and Culture Courses in English Translation ? A Tolstoy's War and Peace

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SUNY at Albany

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In 1863, at age 35, Tolstoy began writing War and Peace. Over the next seven years, it transmogrified from a novel about decadent Russian society in the 1850s to an epic about Russian society during the Napoleonic wars of the 1810s. Our exploration of War and Peace includes Tolstoy's own letters and later interpretations in Bondarchuk's film (1967) and? Prokofiev's opera (1952), as we examine the big questions: the individual in relation to history, free will, the psychological hero, knowledge, historical determinism, death and war, as well as more specific subjects such as the cultural war between Russia and France, the Napoleonic Wars, the nobility, and love

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3.00

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www.albany.edu

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(518) 442-3300

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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