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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of apparent exceptions and oddities in the phonology, morphology, and syntax of contemporary Russian through the prism of historical changes and developments.
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4.00 Credits
Examines cultural, political, social and scientific perceptions of human psychology in the Soviet period. Topics include representations and manifestations of the New Soviet Man; the interaction of literature and psychology; and strategies of control, resistance and self-definition. Works by Mandelshtam, Vygotsky, Bulgakov, Pavlov, Platonov, Sinyavsky, Brodsky, Tarkovsky, Erofeev and others.
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4.00 Credits
Literary close reading of Chekhov and Nabokov with special attention to narrative experimentation as well as to the cultural and historical contexts. The main reading is Nabokov's Drugie berega/Speak Memory, a text that combines fiction and autobiography, literature and criticism, English and Russian.
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4.00 Credits
Reading of Dostoevsky's major works, with a view to showing how the problems they contain (social, psychological, political, metaphysical) are inseparable not only from his time but from the distinctive novelistic form he created.
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4.00 Credits
Examines main currents in Ukrainian intellectual and cultural expression from the eve of the Russian Revolution, through the formation and dissolution of the USSR, to the "Orange Revolution" (2004). Topics include populism vs. modernism, nationalism vs. socialism, Literary Discussion of the 1920s, Stalinism, Glasnost, linguistic, and national identity. Focus on literature, film (Dovzhenko, Paradzhanov, Illienko), and theater (Kurbas); guest lectures on music and art.
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4.00 Credits
Overview of the major artistic and intellectual trends and close reading of key works by the major writers: Malczewski, Mickiewicz, Slowacki, Krasinski, and others. Focus also on the central role of Romanticism in Polish culture.
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4.00 Credits
How do traumatic experiences affect literary modes for representing the everyday? What critical approaches are most productive for approaching such works? Explore the unique aesthetic strategies of Miron Bialoszewski, whose attention to insignificant quotidian events makes him the most "private" writer in historically and politically oriented postwar Polish literature. Theoretical readings frame discussions on the everyday, trauma, and queer studies.
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4.00 Credits
The major themes and modes of Russian poetry from pre-Romanticism to "pure art." Selections from Zhukovsky, Batiushkov, Baratynsky, Yazykov, Lermontov, Tiutchev, Nekrasov, Fet, and others.
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4.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary introduction to major authors and themes of Slavic history and literature, focusing on relationships between literature, power, history, and myth. Theories of literary interpretation (including Russian Formalism and semiotics) as well as different approaches to placing literature in its social and political contexts. Readings introduce students to major figures in the Slavic literary traditions, including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov, Kundera, Hrabal, Herbert, Hemon, and others.
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