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Academic Year 2005/2006

Reading Stories
RUSS 240 FA

Crosslistings: REES 240

How does narrative form create meaning? Many of the best works of 19th-century Russian literature reflect upon the nature of storytelling and the capacity of stories to represent truth. In the 20th century, Russian literary theoreticians like Eikhenbaum, Bakhtin, and Lotman joined fiction writers in developing a powerful and useful critical vocabulary for describing and understanding narrative. Their work led them and writers of their generation into innovative experiments in short fiction. This course looks at the creative interplay between story writing and thinking about stories in modern Russian literature. We will read short stories and short novels by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Zoshchenko, and Platonov. We will also read articles and selected chapters on theory by Iser, Hirsch, Chatman, Booth, Bakhtin, Lotman, Frye, and Jakobson.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RUSS    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): White,Duffield    

Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM;     Location: FISK413;

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 19)

SR. major: X   Jr. major: X

SR. non-major: X   Jr. non-major: X   SO: X   FR: 19

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal:    Speaking, Writing

FYI:    FYI Seminar

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006

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