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3.00 Credits
Epsteyn This course is offered as an immersion experience, designed to improve students' oral proficiency in Russian while introducing them to the cultural treasures of Russia's capital. Mornings students study language with instructors at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Afternoons and evenings they visit sites associated with Moscow's great writers, art galleries and museums, attend plays, operas and con-cert s. This course may be taken as either 203W or, with additional assignments, 303W. Not offered every year. Subject to Dean's Office approv al. Prerequisite: 203; 201 or permission of the instructor; 303; 301 or permission of the instructor. Application required. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Wintersession Unit: 1.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Open by permission to qualified students. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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Prerequisite: Open by permission to qualified students. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 0.5
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2.00 Credits
Pankenier Survey of Russian fiction from the Age of Pushkin (1820s-1830s) to Tolstoy's mature work (1870s) focusing on the role of fiction in Rus-sian history, contemporaneous critical reaction, literary movements in Russia, and echoes of Russian literary masterpieces in the other arts, especially film and music. Major works by Pushkin (Eugene Onegin , ?The Queen of Spades?), Lermont ov (A Hero of Our Tim e), Go-g ol (Dead Sou ls, ?The Overcoat?), Pav lova (A Double L ife), Turg enev (Fathers and S ons), Tol stoy (Anna Karen ina), and Dostoe vsky (Crime and Punish ment) will be read. Taught in English. Two per iods. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit:
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2.00 Credits
TBA NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. OFFERED IN 2010-11. The masterpieces of Russian film from the 1920s to the present day will be screened, analyzed, and discussed. Students will explore the famous techniques and themes developed by legendary Russian/Soviet filmmakers, including Eisenstein, Vertov, Tarkovsky and Mikhalkov. We will treat these films as works of art, examining the ways in which directors, like authors of novels and other literary genres, create a fictional world. Guest lecturers will comment on specific issues. Taught in English. Two periods. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: N/O. Offered in 2010-11. Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Pankenier Witches, devils, and vampires continue to populate the modern imagination, but where did such beliefs originate Slavic folklore and fairy tales uniquely preserve the richness of older traditions and thus offer a window into a past that still exerts an influence today. First we will study Slavic folklore to uncover the power of folkloristics and understand the layering of belief systems. We will then read Afanasyev's Russian Fairy Tales from various critical perspectives and discuss Propp's groundbreaking analysis of their basic structure i n Morphology of the Folktale . Throughout the course, we will examine literary works, art, films, and music that return to folk themes, culminating with a closer analysis of the use of folk elements in Bulgakov ? The Master and Margarit a, a Faustian novel of witches and devil s. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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2.00 Credits
Hodge NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. OFFERED IN 2011-12. Is there a ?politically correct? set of responses for artists active under a repressive regime We examine various Russian answers to this question through an intensive analysis of the great ideological novels at the center of Russia's historic social debates from the 1840s to the 1860s. The tension between literary realism and political exigency will be explored in the fictional and critical works of Herzen, Turgenev, Chernyshevsky, Goncharov, Dobroliubov, Dostoevsky, and Pisarev. Representative works from the nonliterary arts will supplement reading and class discussio n. Taught in English. Two period s. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and LiteratureSemester: N/O. Offered in 2011-12. Unit: 1.0
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2.00 Credits
Weiner NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. OFFERED IN 2010-11. Probably no writer has been so detested and adored, so demonized and deified, as Dostoevsky. This artist was such a visionary that he had to reinvent the novel in order to create a form suitable for his insights into the inner life and his prophecies about the outer. To this day readers are mystified, outraged, enchanted, but never unmoved, by Dostoevsky's fiction, which some have tried to brand as ?novel-tragedies,? ?romantic realism,? ?polyphonic novels,? and more. This course challenges students to enter the fray and explore the mysteries of Dostoevsky themselves through study of his major wri tings. Taught in English. Two pe riods. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O. Offered in 2010-11. Unit:
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2.00 Credits
Hodge NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. OFFERED IN 2010-11. An odyssey through the fiction of the great Russian novelist and thinker, beginning with his early works (Sevastopol Stories) and focusing on War and Peace and Anna Karenina, though the major achievements of Tolstoy's later period will also be included (A Confession, The Death of Ivan Ilich) . Lectures and discussion will examine the masterful techniques Tolstoy employs in his epic explorations of human existence, from mundane detail to life-shattering cataclysm. Students are encouraged to have read the Maude translation o f War and Peace (Norton Critical Edition) before the semester begins . Taught in English. Two periods . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O. Offered in 2010-11. Unit: 1.0
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2.00 Credits
Weiner An examination of the artistic legacy of the great novelist, critic, lepidopterist, and founder of the Wellesley College Russian Department. Nabokov's works have joined the canon of twentieth-century classics in both Russian and English literature. Students will explore Nabo-kov's English-language novels (Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire ) and the authorized English translations of his Russian works (The Defense, Des-pair, Invitation to a Beheading). Taught in English. Two periods . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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