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Molly Brunson. mw1-2.15 Hu (0) Tr A survey of nineteenth-century Russian literature in its historical context. Examination of artistic meditations on justice and rebellion and on national identity and the nature of the individual as these issues are embodied in texts by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. Focus on Russian modernity and the range of aesthetic explorations that it engendered. Readings and discussion in English.
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Hilary Fink. mf 11.35-12.50 Hu (34) Tr A survey of major writers and literary movements, focusing on the intersection of art and revolution in twentieth-century Russian literature. Topics include the Symbolists and Decadents at the end of the nineteenth century; the reception of the 1917 Revolution by Russian writers in the 1920s; the formation of Stalinist literary orthodoxy and reactions against it; and contemporary literary rebellions against the political and artistic legacies of the past. Readings include works by Blok, Bely, Babel, Olesha, Bunin, Akhmatova, and Bulgakov. Readings and discussion in Engli sh.
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Vladimir Alexandrov. mw 2.30-3.20, 1 htba Hu (37) Tr A survey of Leo Tolstoy's legacy. Readings include early stories, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and short later works. Close textual analyses, with primary attention to the interrelation of theme, form, and literary and cultural contexts. Readings and discussion in English.
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Hilary Fink. mf 11.35-12.50, 1 htba Hu (34) Tr The literary and intellectual legacy of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Focus on Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov; consideration of several short stories and novellas. Special attention to Dostoevsky's concept of modernity. Close textual analysis is accompanied by discussion of the historical, biographical, literary, and philosophical contexts of Dostoevsky's novels . Readings and discussion in English.
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Hilary Fink. m 1.30-3.20 Hu (36) Tr Themes of the irrational, the absurd, and madness in works of Russian literature from romanticism to contemporary fiction. Particular attention to the role of the individual in society, the battle in Russian thought between reason and anti-reason, and the function of the irrational in the search for ontological truth. Authors include Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kharms, and others. Readings and discussion in English.
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Hilary Fink. m 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) Tr Intensive analysis of Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, Tolstoy' s The Death of Iva n Il'i ch a nd The Cossack s, and selected short stories by Chekhov. The works are examined through the prism of such Western philosophers as Rousseau, Schiller, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bergson, and Heidegger. Some attention to Russian philosophy in relation to the Russian literary tradition
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Molly Brunson. tth1-2.15 Hu (0) Tr A study of the thematic, aesthetic, and historical significance of the city and the country in the nineteenth-century European novel. Topics include the idyll and urban development, social mobility, travel and transportation, landscape painting, and literary narrative and spatial organization. Analysis of novels by Dickens, Balzac, and Tolstoy, as well as historical documents, visual materials, and theoretical texts. Readings and discussion in English.
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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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Consult the director of undergraduate studies. htba (0) Individual study under the supervision of a faculty member selected by the student. Applicants must submit a prospectus approved by the adviser to the director of undergraduate studies by the end of the first week of classes in the term in which the course is taken. The student meets with the adviser at least one hour each week, and takes a final examination or writes a term paper. No credit granted without prior approval of the director of undergraduate studies.
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3.00 Credits
Consult the director of undergraduate studies. htba (0) Research and writing on a topic of the student's own devising. Regular meetings with an adviser as the work progresses from prospectus to final form.
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