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Modern Russian literature combines historical writing and fiction in interesting ways. Some writers (including Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, and Solzhenitsyn) have written separate, parallel historical and fictional accounts of the same historical episodes. Some (including Turgenev and Tolstoy) have developed genres which are at the boundary of fiction and documentary. Others (including Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Bulgakov) have combined "realistic" narratives of contemporary life with abstract, mythic models of history: apocalyptic, utopian, dystopian, idyllic. Even lyric poetry normally reserved for the expression of private experience has become oracular in twentieth century poets like Blok, Mayakovsky, and Brodsky. This course will introduce studen ts to Russian literature's "obsession with history ," to the genres in which it is expressed, and to the concepts of human experience created by these genres.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RUSS Grading Mode: Student Option
Prerequisites: NONE
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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