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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. JANE KNOX-VOINA. Explores twentieth-century Russian culture through film, art, architecture, and literature. Topics include scientific utopias, eternal revolution, individual freedom, collectivism, conflict between the intelligentsia and the common man, the "new Soviet woman," nationalism,and the demise of the Soviet Union. Works of Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Kandinsky, Chagall, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Brodsky, Akhmatova, Solzhenitsyn, and Tolstaya. Weekly film viewings. Russian majors are required to do some reading in Russian. (Same as Gender and Women's Studies 220.)
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Every other spring. Spring 2008. RAYMOND MILLER. Examines Fyodor Dostoevsky's later novels. Studies the author's unique brand of realism("fantastic realism," "realism of a higher order"), which explores the depths of humpsychology and spirituality. Emphasis on the anti-Western, anti-materialist bias of Dostoevsky's quest for meaning in a world growing increasingly unstable, violent, and cynical. Special attention is given to the author's treatment of urban poverty and the place of women in Russian society.
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Fall 2007. RAYMOND MILLER. Explores and compares two giants of Russian literature, Lev Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Their works are read for their significance, both to Russian cultural history and to European thought; special attention is paid to the portrayal of women and women's issues in both authors. Part I studies Dostoevsky's quest for guiding principles of freedom and love in a world of growing violence, cynicism, and chaos. "The Woman Question" emerges as aconstant subject: Dostoevsky particularly concerned himself with the suffering of poor and humiliated women. A close reading of several short works and the novel Brothers Karamazov set in their historical, and intellectual framework. Emphasis on the novelist's struggle between Western materialistic individualism and Eastern voluntary self-renunciation. Examines Dostoevsky's "fantastic realism" as a polyphony of voices, archetypes, and religious symbolsPart II studies Tolstoy's development both as a novelist and a moral philosopher. Examines several works, the most important being the novel Anna Karenina, with special emphasis on the tension between Tolstoy-the-artist and Tolstoy-the-moralist. Discussion of the writer's role as "the conscience of Russia" in the last thirty years of his life, as well as his influenceon such figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King. (Same as Gender and Women's Studies 217.)
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3.00 Credits
Every other fall. Fall 2006. JANE KNOXVOINA. Examination of little-known Central Asian peoples of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia, and the unique challenges facing them at the start of the twenty-first century. Studies the history and culture of this transitional zone, which links West and East, Christianity and Islam, Europe and Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tadjikistan, and Mongolia). Includes examples of Central Asian literature and cinema. Special focus on changes in the socio-economic status of women in the region, and the spirituality (shamanism) and cultural traditions of these groups, as well as the environmental and sociopolitical issues facing them. Addresses questions such as how politicization and industrialization affect the belief systems of the indigenous ethnic groups, their rural or subsistence economies, and their attitude toward the environment; and the present and future international significance of this vast, oil-rich area. (Same as Gender and Women's Studies 243.)
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THE DEPARTMENT. Upon demand, this course may be conducted as a small seminar for several students in areas not covered in the above courses (e.g., the Russian media or intensive language study). This course may be repeated for credit with the contents changed. Prerequisite: Russian 305 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Every fall. Fall 2006. RAYMOND MILLER. Intended to develop the ability to read Russian at a sophisticated level by combining selected language and literature readings, grammar review, and study of Russian word formation. Discussion and reports in Russian. Conversation hour with native speaker. Prerequisite: Russian 204 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Every other spring. Spring 2007. RAYMOND MILLER. A study of Russian folk culture: folk tales, fairy tales, legends, and traditional oral verse, as well as the development of folk motives in the work of modern writers. Special emphasis on Indo-European and Common Slavic background. Reading and discussion in Russian. Short term papers. Prerequisite:Russian 305 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Every other fall. Fall 2007. RAYMOND MILLER. A survey of Russian prose of the nineteenth century. Special attention paid to the development of Russian realism. Writers include Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. Prerequisite: Russian 305 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Every other spring. Spring 2008. JANE KNOX-VOINA. An introduction to twentieth-century Russian literature from Symbolism to Postmodernism. Reading of poetry by Blok, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Evtushenko, and Okudzhava, along with short prose by Zamiatin, Babel, Zoshchenko, Kharms, Shalamov, Aksenov, Shukshin, Petrushevskaya, Tolstaya, Ulitskaya, Sadur, and Pelevin. Close readings of the assigned works are viewed alongside other artistic texts and cultural phenomena, including the bard song, film, animation, conceptual and sots-art, and rock- and pop-music. Prerequisite: Russian 305 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Every other fall. Fall 2006. RAYMOND MILLER. Examines various nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian poets, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Blok, and Mayakovsky. Earlier history of Russian verse is also discussed. Includes study of Russian poetics and the cultural-historical context of each poet's work. Reading and discussion are in Russian. Short term papers. Prerequisite: Russian 305 or permission of the instructor.
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