Slavic 148. Strange Russian Writers

Semester: Fall

Year offered: 2018

Studies Russia's rebels, deviants, martyrs, loners, and losers as emblems of national identity. Stories, films and poems that project Russia's distinctive obsessions with history and religion. Includes Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, Kharms, Platonov, Nabokov, Petrushevskaya, Prigov; films by Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Askoldov, Sokurov. Meets Tues. / Thurs. 11-12, plus an additional hour
Note: All readings in English. Separate additional section for those able to read texts in Russian. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engage substantially with Study of the Past.

Studies Russia's rebels, deviants, martyrs, loners, and losers as emblems of national identity. Stories, films and poems that project Russia's distinctive obsessions with history and religion. Includes Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, Kharms, Platonov, Nabokov, Petrushevskaya, Prigov; films by Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Askoldov, Sokurov.

Meets Tues. / Thurs. 11-12, plus an additional hour

Note: All readings in English. Separate additional section for those able to read texts in Russian. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for either Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding or Culture and Belief, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts C. This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engage substantially with Study of the Past.