Pushkin RUSS250 FA

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       14      5         9

In Pushkin's poetry exactly the right word is always in exactly the right place. Reading him, one appreciates Roman Jakobson's notion that poetry is about language -- the brilliance of Pushkin's poetry reflects the expressive potential of the Russian language. Puskhin also managed to capture the reality of contemporary Russian life in his poetry, prose, and drama. How did he do this? How was he able to turn his poetry outwards to reflect contemporary culture and society, to comment upon the conventional discourses of politics, history, and philosophy, to reformulate old concepts, old myths and to articulate new ones? This course will read Pushkin both ways -- as the "Pushkin -tour" of the Russian language's expressive potential and as Pushkin's version of Russian culture and society in the 1820s and 1830s. All readings and short lectures will be conducted in Russian. Discussions will be in Russian and English.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA RUSS

Prerequisites: RUSS112

Section 01

White, D

Times: .T.T... 10:00AM;

Grading Mode: Mixed

Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 1

No Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997