RUSSIAN 408 - Russian Decadent and Symbolist Culture in a European Context

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Reed College

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Full course for one semester. The course investigates Russian Decadent and Symbolist literature in a broad European context. We study the philosophical foundations of Decadent culture (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Solov'ev); the preoccupation with "degeneration," common in the European science of the fin-de-siècle (Krafft-Ebing, Weininger); "aestheticism" (J.K. Huysmans, Oscar Wilde); and interpretations of sexuality (André Gide, Thomas Mann). The Russian component of the reading includes the works of Zinaida Gippius, Viacheslav Ivanov, Fedor Sologub, Mikhail Kuzmin, Evdokiia Nagrodskaia, Aleksandr Blok, and Andrei Bely. Prerequisite: students who wish to take the course for Russian credit must have completed Russian 220 or obtain the consent of the instructor. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 408. Not offered 200Literature 408 Description

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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