Russian Studies 257 - Tolstoy's War And Peace

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Macalester College

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In 1851, a dropout from the university, Lev Tolstoy volunteered to serve in the Caucasus, where he also launched his writing career. Later he examined Napoleon's war with Russia in War and Peace, while gradually gaining fame for his stance against imperialist wars and violence. His doctrine of non-resistance to evil was to inspire his last piece of war writing, Hadji Murad as well as other thinkers from Gandhi to Martin Luther King. Though most of the semester will be devoted to the "non-novel," "loose baggy monster ," War and Pe ace we interrogate it the oontext of Tolstoy's evolving ideas and 19th-century Russia and Europe. We conclude with a close reading of Hadji Murad, Harold Bloom's "personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction." While pondering Tolstoand Russia, students are introduced to various critical approaches to literature and various reactions to Tolstoy on both page and on stage. In English. Lectures, discussion, writing, and oral presentation. Alternate years, Fall semester. (4 credits)

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4.00

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www.macalester.edu

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(651) 696-6000

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North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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