Slavic 289. Elegy: The Art of Losing

Poems, films, visual artifacts, and music alongside theories of loss. Focuses on non-narrative forms, with examples from Pushkin, Baratynsky, Fet, Brodsky, Shvarts; Tarkovsky, Shemiakin, Sokurov; Silvestrov, Sebald.

Reading knowledge of Russian required. Graduate seminar; qualified undergraduates admitted with instructor's permission.