RUSS 326 - aG ,Slavery and Serfdom in Russian and American Culture

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Yale University

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JohnMacKay. t 3.30-5.20 Hu (0) Tr Examination of literary and other forms of cultural production associated with U.S. slavery and Russian serfdom. The relations between bondage and national, cultural, and personal identity; the role of bondage in definitions of aesthetic experience in the pre- and post-emancipation periods; the relationship between literacy and the literary; literature of protest; and connections between geographical and subjective space within cultures of enslavement. russ 379a, Nabokov. Vladimir Alexandrov. tth1-2.15 (0) Tr A close examination of selected major works from Vladimir Nabokov's Russian and English periods, with particular attention to the connections among his metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics.

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3.00

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(203) 432-4771

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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