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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will investigate the complex inter-relationships between politics, ideology, and aesthetics, and consider whether it is only governments and the policies they make that have the power to coerce artistic production, or whether artists can shape politics and ideology as well. In short: What does it mean for art to be political? The primary historical focus will be on Russian art before, during, and after the Bolshevik revolution, but comparative geo-historical cases will also be considered.
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This course blends history, propaganda, organized sport, and everyday life into a sort of "public theater" in Bolshevik, and then Stalinist, Russia. After some historical background we move to particular kinds of staged performances: re-enacted political events, political mass actions (funerals, trials), theatricalized everyday life (official holidays, leisure, children's culture), architecture (the Moscow metro), and mass entertainment (paramilitary exercises, air shows). Special attention is paid to sports and Olympic games. Films will be extensively used and analyzed to help transmit a sense of the visual aura of Stalin's time.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course is envisioned as both a language and literature course. Readings will be in Russian, discussion will be primarily in English. Papers will be written in English. We will sample writings in many genres (lyric and narrative poetry, short prose, drama).
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The goal of the course is to acquaint students with the evolution of Dostoevsky's writings. A multi-faceted approach is used for coming to grips with the works. The focus is on stylistic, ethical, religious, philosophical and political dimensions of his art as well as on ways in which Dostoevsky fits into the cultural milieu of his time. Both non-Slavic Department and Departmental students are welcome.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A close reading of War and Peace (in Russian) along side short fictions, classics in Russian criticism, a sampling of diaries and letters, and ideological - philosophical context. Good reading knowledge of Russian required.. Coordinated with COM 415.
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An analysis of Chekhov's major works, including short stories and plays. Some attention will be given to Chekhov scholarship, both Russian and Western.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A seminar devoted to the genre the Russians call the "poema". Representative works from the 19th and 20th centuries are read. To some extent, readings will depend on students' interest.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Course considers the work of Polish-born poet Czeslaw Milosz and Russian-born poet by combining history of literature and intellectual history, and treating their life stories as emblematic of historical, cultural and political phenomena of the second part of the 20th century. Course uses close textual analysis of major works by both poets (and some of their contemporaries) to address such topics as: literary history, World War II, Polish-Russian relations, dominance of English-language poetry, growth of high culture in the United States, and the decline of exile.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course will examine the historical formation and existence of Soviet socialist realism as a method of representation, theoretical platform, and cultural reality. Apart from prominent critical statements and secondary scholarly literature, it will consider a number of works from the fields of Soviet literature, art, and cinema. It will seek to understand socialist realism both in the broader context of European modernism and in the native Soviet context of social transformations, political prerogataives, and ideological sanctions. Lectures and discussions in English, readings in both English and Russian.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A practical course devoted to scholarly writing intended to facilitate the dissertation writing process. The seminar meets every two to three weeks. Dissertation writers circulate work in progress for feedback and meet for discussion as a group. The seminar is required of all post-generals students in Russian literature who are in residence.
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