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In the first three decades of the 20th century, a remarkable flowering of Russian poetry took place that reinterpreted, revised and extended the tradition of the 19th-century Golden Age. Created against the background of war, revolution and Stalin's repressions, this poetry offers a rich and complex understanding of the poet's relationship to the state and to the "narod." We will read the works of Alexander Blok, Anna Axmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, Marina Cvetaeva, Velemir Xlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Special attention will be paid to the understanding of metrics and verse language; learning to read verse aloud; the relationship between a poet's theorizing about verse and his or her actual verse; the poets' relationships to each other and to the tradition that preceded them; and the historical and sociological background. Conducted in Russian.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RUSS Grading Mode: Student Option
Prerequisites: RUSS201
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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