#  Slavic 289. Elegy: The Art of Losing 

 





 Semester:   Spring 

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 Year offered:  2014 

 

 

 

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.