Readings in Russian Realism

For graduate students or upper-level undergraduates. What did Realism mean for late imperial Russian writers?  What has it meant for twentieth-century literary theory?  As we seek to answer these questions, we read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Chekhov, alongside their brilliant but less often taught contemporaries such as Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Leskov, Garshin, Korolenko, Gorky, Andreev, and Bunin.  Reading in Russian; discussion in English.