Class Id: 9888
Days: MW
Start Time: 01:30 PM
End Time: 02:20 PM
Building: MCCOH
Room: 64
Course Id: 4386
Departments and Numbers: SLA 220
Area: LA
Title: The Great Russian Novel and Beyond: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Others
Description: An examination of significant trends in Russian literature from the 2nd half of the 19th century to the Russian Revolution and a bit beyond. The course focuses on many masterpieces of 19th & 20th-century Russian literature. The works (mostly novels) are considered from a stylistic point of view and in the context of Russian historical and cultural developments. The course also focuses on questions of values and on the eternal "big questions" of life that are raised in the literature. Authors read include Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bely, Nabokov, and Kharms.
Prerequisites: Curiosity. Knowledge of Russian not required. Open to first-year students.
Professors: Ellen B. Chances
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