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4.00 Credits
Spring. Prerequisite: Russian 202 or equivalent. Examines how meaning is expressed in different ways in Russian and English through different grammatical forms, different rules of word order, and different systems of conventional and creative metaphor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall or spring. Prerequisite: Russian 202 or equivalent. Introduction to basic oral and written communication skills for trade and business negotiations with Russian-speaking areas of the former Soviet Union.
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4.00 Credits
Fall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. The novels of the most famous Russian writer and thinker, who deeply influenced world literature. Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and others. Topics for discussion include: Christianity and atheism, existentialism, the superman, the sources of evil, and freedom and suffering as moral categories.
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4.00 Credits
Fall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. The course examines the thought and art of one of Russia's most influential writers. In works such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy offers insight into issues still fundamental to us today: the meaning of life and death, moral and social responsibility, and personal identity.
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4.00 Credits
Fall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. From tsarist days through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has grappled with issues of imagination and identity. These issues find voice in Russian literature, which has moved radically along official and unofficial lines. The course focuses on a battle of realities in twentieth-century Russia, and it examines the powerful dynamics between art and politics. Films, slides, and music accompany texts.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Art History 369.) Fall or spring. Prerequisite: none. Knowledge of Russian is not required. Introduction to interdisciplinary study of twentieth-century Russian literature and the visual arts, with focus upon issues of art and politics, time, space, and identity in symbolist, supermatist, constructivist, socialist realist, and post-Soviet "vision". In English.
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4.00 Credits
This class examines several paradigms for understanding Shakespeare's formidable influence in Russian culture: from Bloom's anxiety of influence to Eliot's claim that Shakespeare cannot be a poetic influence to Pasternak's conception of the battle entailed in the transmission of tradition, and then to Mandelstam's vision of influence as a forceful impluse to speech or even a mating call. The plays in question will be carefully discussed in order to understand which of the themes will have the strongest impact and new life in a Russian culture and which are overlooked and downplayed.
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0.00 Credits
Fall or spring. Variable credit. Study of Russian language, literature, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
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4.00 Credits
Russia is famous (or notorious) for its wide and sometimes wild experimentation with patterns of erotic behavior, from extreme asceticism to the proclamation of "free love" ("winged eros") in the decade after the Bolshevik Revolution. We will examine some of these "sextremes", as well as the construction of masculinity and femininity in Russian culture and the transformation of gender roles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in the time of revolutions and in places like prisons, exile, and concentration camps. This course will focus mostly on the question of love as presented in the works of Russia's most prominent writers, from Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Vladimir Soloviev, and Chekhov to Bunin, Solzhenitsyn, and Nabokov. We will explore love triangles and squares, jealousy and adultery, virginity and "sexploitation" from psychological, ideological, and philosophical viewpoints. The course will place the rich artistic imagery of Russian prose and poetry in the theoretical and historical contexts provided by outstanding Western thinkers and writers such as Plato, Dante, Shakespeare, Schopenhauer, Freud, Sartre, C. S. Lewis, and R. Barthes.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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